Unfortunately, I think people in the US have been doing that for a long time. His argument is invalid because he has a mistress! He can’t be taken seriously because he is poor! etc.

Yes, I think you are right, And maybe they should be attacking each other. Perhaps the reason the two party system has gained such traction is by pushing people to take sides. Maybe these movements can survive only with a balanced competitor.

Either way, I think they should go out of their way to attack each other only on message rather than on legitimacy as an organization. Don’t tell each other to go home, don’t call each other lazy, or racist, or irrelevant; fight the fight as one of freedom vs. fairness, or government waste vs. corporate greed, or team up against the Federal Reserve system, which I don’t think either side is especially fond of.

This could end up being an interesting election, once this farce of a primary is over. I’m itching to see this be a four person race. Obama, Romney, Kucinich, Paul perhaps?

The Guardian printed the following:

“Intelligent and politically engaged, Kelly ran the radical 7:84 theatre company in Scotland with David Hayman for three years in the late 80s. He directed Hector McMillan’s sectarian drama The Sash (1989); Raymond Briggs’s When the Wind Blows (1989), about a nuclear attack; and an anti-poll tax farce, Revolting Peasants (1991), for the company, whose name derives from a statistic that 7% of the population of the UK owns 84% of the wealth. He also appeared in Labour party election broadcasts.”

I guess none of this is “proof” but I think it all is certainly indicative that the two are very likely the same person.

If you or anyone else would like to suggest any blogs that I might read as a replacement, please post some links. I feel like I’ve got nothing on the liberal side now.

I am eternally grateful for the thinkers, dreamers and contrarians of yore that dealt with material deception. Their works and thoughts were the ones that woke me up to the ‘dream state’ of accepting social conformity. Most of them came from the States.

As a solution I can only humbly advocate the monists of the east, centuries old and ever living that present reality as it truly is. That its all just a ride (to borrow Bill Hicks quote). The only thing we need to do, is be (ourselves). Because the first rule of war is ‘know thyself’. That comes before we engage the enemy. Do we really, truly, know the answer to ‘Who am i?’

Know thyself. Know thyself, before one picks up the gun, muttering strange oaths of freedom and retribution. Know thyself. The enemy will dissolve. I promise.