Full moon but wintry economics

[altivo]

Makes it feel like Wednesday already. This morning before dawn the moon shone into my window through the trees and it was like a painted picture in a children's book maybe. Slate blue sky and big yellow moon setting behind the winter branches, it was almost surreal in the sharp edges and simple forms of the image

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[cabcat]

That's probably the one thing that makes me mad when I see reports of US politics this weird thing that any kind of social benefit is shouted down under the chant of socialism.

I mean grow up really.

Australia's economy seems to be rather strong still mainly due to resources and has grown even during the GFC so we haven't really seen what's happened in other countries, hell house prices are still insane and rents never go down. And it won't change there's just too much demand for house prices to drop,

[altivo]

It's largely the result of clever brainwashing by powerful forces on the right. At one time, "communism" was their magic word that they could use to scare people into following them like lemmings, but that lost its power after the collapse of the Soviet block. Starting about the time of the Reagan administration, they have carefully prepared a knee-jerk reaction to two new terms. One of those is "socialist" and the other is "liberal." They have a third one on deck in the wings, and have been taking it on trial runs: "gay agenda."