Re: (ReacTor) Five Futures Where the US Ended Not With a Bang But a Whimper

On 5/31/25 09:21, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 30 May 2025 10:41:39 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
 

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On 5/30/25 08:19, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

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Canadian and European "Conservative" are different than USA "Conservative".

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The USA "conservative" is different than what it was five years ago.
--scott

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Only some of them are now fascists but they are sycophantic toward the
current president and afraid of the MAGA horde.  Some Republicans were
alway authoritaians
to start with but now have taken their mask off. Some have a long
history of idiocy.

Fair enough, but I would not limit this to Republicans. The problem
may not be so severe with the Democrats, but it is definitely there.
 Seattle is currently (well, as of yesterday or the day before)
undergoing national scrutiny for having a mayor who kept his mouth
open after he had said enough for the situation. He is several steps
closer to the center than his predecessor, but we clearly need a mayor
who is several steps closer to the center than he appears to be.

If you live in Seattle then perhaps you are correct. I live in San Francisco as you
may have gathered and we have one of the very rich as Mayor currently and he might
be close to the center but may be missing the human experience of the less well
compensated in our SF society.  It is very expensive to live in San Francisco and
if I had not aged in my apartment for the last 50+ years I could not afford to
be here (or live in any other desirable place). I would be in a van down by the
River giving motivational speeches to HS students or in a tent or cardboard shack
on the street. Willie Brown was mayor a few years back and he wanted people
with incomes under $50,000 per annum to leave. But it takes an income now
of $117,000/per annum to afford to have a home in California. Mine is only
about $25,000/year but with rent control I hang on just for access to the
SF Public Library.  Willie Brown is a centrist but corporate Democratic Party
leader here in retirement.
Oh would a review of a recent Batman hardcover comic compilation
be welcome or appreciated here. I put it up in alt.comics.batman if anyone
wants to bother.  Title is "Batman Dark Age".

bliss - we need 3 dimensional political party descriptions