Posted on 05/07/2008 9:55:50 AM PDT by bs9021
Hightower’s New World
by: Bethany Stotts, May 07, 2008
As reported in an earlier Accuracy in Academia article, the famous populist Jim Hightower is attempting to inflame college students against the evil American corporations and restrictive consumerist expectations. Promoted by the progressive Campus Progress (a program of the Center for American Progress), Hightower’s new book Swim Against the Current encourages readers to break with corporate and “right-wing politico” traditions and adopt more values-oriented positions including
• opposing the Iraq War;
• mass organization against evil corporations and the Powers That Be;
• government-subsidized elections;
• fighting climate change in the name of Christian “Creation Care.”
The book, coauthored by Hightower and former talk-show host Susan Demarco, is divided into three themes covering “Business” (corporate greed), “Politics” (progressive action), and “Life” (the Evangelical-Environmentalist Alliance).
Believing that all politics in America are corrupted by “money-soaked” elitist interests, Hightower and DeMarco have some choice words for American democracy: “It’s an inherently corrupting, self-perpetuating, virulently antidemocratic system in which private money buys multiples of public money.”
Their solution: government-subsidized “Clean Elections.” “...CE is a voluntary system that gives candidates for state and local offices a clear choice: (1) go ahead and run the old way if you want, ceaselessly hustling campaign money from private funders and hocking your independence to them; or (2) choose to forego money from private interests...in return for receiving no-string-attached public funds to finance your campaign,” they write (emphasis original).
Hightower and DeMarco add, “Also—and very important—if a CE candidate is being grossly outspent by a candidate with Big Bucks backing or one spending a personal fortune, the clean candidate gets an extra allotment of matching funds to stay competitive.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
Does anyone actually take Jim Hightower seriously? I listen to Pacifica Radio out of Houston (KPFT) — a wacko leftist station flagshipped by Amy Goodman’s seditious mouthpiece for authoritarian Communism, the Orwellian titled “DemocracyNow!”.
Pacifica plays Hightower’s infantile “commentaries” between the leftwing “FreeSpeech Radio News”, and Comrade Goodman’s
show. He talks like Dr. Phil, spouting folksy-sounding phrases with a southern accent (such as the oh-so-clever title of his newest book “Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow”) ... in the hopes that his nonsensical rants will come of as “common sense” when coupled with the a southern drawl, a cowboy hat and the occasional Dr.Phil-esque catchprase.
He’s sort of a male version of Molly Ivins, without the likeability. He’s a first-rate lunatic, and a self-aggrandizing know-it-all couched in folksy Texan rhetoric.
Who care’s what this clown says?
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Texas sure is a conservative state, but our moonbats can compete with anyone from San Francisco.
>> Texas sure is a conservative state, but our moonbats can compete with anyone from San Francisco.
Yeah — but we ship them all off to Austin to live on communes, grow Peace Gardens, wear clothes knitted out of wheat, and have their little hippie powwows without bothering the audio or olfactory senses of the rest of Texas. In Texas, we tolerate them as long as they stay in their little section of the state. In San Francisco, they get elected to office.
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He’s a flaming goofball. Now you can save some time and move onto another topic.
Apparently Demarco does. Sounds like she's been hanging around this self-important freakshow for a couple of decades.
Guess they might be an item.
135,000 people care enough to subscribe to his newsletter.
Every state has an insane asylum.
In Texas it is called Travis county.
Yeah that will break America in 1 election when everyone decides to run for office. This country is becoming ever increasingly populated with idiots.
Hightower Alert!
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