Comments on: Depressions Are Good For Us: New Republican Meme? http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:05:45 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Mile23 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836952 Mile23 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:15:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836952 <p>Why can I only think of Brother Justin from ‘Carnivale’?</p> Why can I only think of Brother Justin from ‘Carnivale’?

]]> By: libbyliberal http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836869 libbyliberal Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:51:55 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836869 <p>cinnamonape @115… thank you so much. I love that this is a woman photographer. Will explore more about her. The Japanese internment camps. Wow. More and more I keep thinking of Gore Vidal’s book title, “The United States of Amnesia.” Lessons don’t seem to find a national conscience.</p> <p>Shock and awe … was inevitable we would get a taste of what our government has been handing out globally for so long.</p> cinnamonape @115… thank you so much. I love that this is a woman photographer. Will explore more about her. The Japanese internment camps. Wow. More and more I keep thinking of Gore Vidal’s book title, “The United States of Amnesia.” Lessons don’t seem to find a national conscience.

Shock and awe … was inevitable we would get a taste of what our government has been handing out globally for so long.

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836799 cinnamonape Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:56:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836799 <p>What Bush and his party left behind is an ideal example of the “Shock Doctrine”- on the domestic front.</p> <p>And here’s how it plays out in <a href="http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/3772" rel="nofollow">Sarah Palin’s Alaska</a></p> What Bush and his party left behind is an ideal example of the “Shock Doctrine”- on the domestic front.

And here’s how it plays out in Sarah Palin’s Alaska

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836797 cinnamonape Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:49:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836797 <p>The photo is by Dorothea Lange who documented it for the Agricultural Commission (I would guess recording migrant farm workers). I saw an exhibit of Lange’s work at Sacramento State, which included many of the more famous images of the Depression (soup lines, the famous picture of model-A’s with peoples worldly possessions under a billboard showing a wealthy smiling family in a Pontiac, etc.).</p> <p>That photography unit was later incorporated as the War Information Office durng WWII, which also produced some great documentary photographers. Lange took many of the photos that documented the Japanese camps at Manzanar, Tule Lake, and elsewhere.</p> <p><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/history/story/930182.html" rel="nofollow">No one knows who the woman in the picture wa</a>s.</p> The photo is by Dorothea Lange who documented it for the Agricultural Commission (I would guess recording migrant farm workers). I saw an exhibit of Lange’s work at Sacramento State, which included many of the more famous images of the Depression (soup lines, the famous picture of model-A’s with peoples worldly possessions under a billboard showing a wealthy smiling family in a Pontiac, etc.).

That photography unit was later incorporated as the War Information Office durng WWII, which also produced some great documentary photographers. Lange took many of the photos that documented the Japanese camps at Manzanar, Tule Lake, and elsewhere.

No one knows who the woman in the picture was.

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836793 cinnamonape Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:33:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836793 <p>I have to wonder if this destruction of the economy isn’t somehow linked with the “Faith-Based Initiatives” in which the religious right was going to get most of the largesse to assist those driven into poverty. In order to obtain basic assistance one would have to become a member of one of these denominations, get inculcated with the insane theological explanations for ones condition (your own fault, sin, gays, liberals, socialists, minorities, etc.) . Want a bowl of soup, some bread, a bed…get in line to be indoctrinated.</p> I have to wonder if this destruction of the economy isn’t somehow linked with the “Faith-Based Initiatives” in which the religious right was going to get most of the largesse to assist those driven into poverty. In order to obtain basic assistance one would have to become a member of one of these denominations, get inculcated with the insane theological explanations for ones condition (your own fault, sin, gays, liberals, socialists, minorities, etc.) . Want a bowl of soup, some bread, a bed…get in line to be indoctrinated.

]]> By: Margot http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836709 Margot Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:13:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836709 <p>This is crazy thinking.<br /> What’s the Manson family, then, God’s little helpers? I mean really, this is just too much.</p> This is crazy thinking.
What’s the Manson family, then, God’s little helpers? I mean really, this is just too much.

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836707 SouthernDragon Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:12:56 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836707 <p>Gonna be real interesting with the Egyptians. The Gaza Convoy diary is wonderful. Leave it to Galloway to pull this off.</p> Gonna be real interesting with the Egyptians. The Gaza Convoy diary is wonderful. Leave it to Galloway to pull this off.

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836705 selise Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:10:35 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836705 <p>not so much if i keep my mouth shut.</p> not so much if i keep my mouth shut.

]]> By: solai http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836703 solai Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:08:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836703 <p>Of course, Gerson isn’t suggesting that he, personally, should suffer during a depression. Just the rest of us.</p> Of course, Gerson isn’t suggesting that he, personally, should suffer during a depression. Just the rest of us.

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836702 selise Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:06:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/20/depressions-are-good-for-us-new-republican-meme/#comment-1836702 <p>thanks just watched it. hard to watch what is happening in the occupied territories (and in israel as well) - it all seems so unnecessary.</p> thanks just watched it. hard to watch what is happening in the occupied territories (and in israel as well) – it all seems so unnecessary.

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