This will fizzle out because as I just posted on the recession thread, the recession will end and none of this will matter. Why you ask? Because of the Detroit Lions and the Detroit Tigers.
This isn’t a joke, the last bad economic times we felt were the late 1970’s and the 1980 US Olympic Hockey team ended that. It’s well documented, don’t watch the movie “miracle,” watch the documentary.
You people believe it was foreign policy, politics, Reagan. Hogwash, it was the hockey team. I cry every time I watch that documentary right when Al Michaels screams “do you believe in miracles.” Because they saved us from the russians and opec. College kids beat Russian pros, against all odds and energized a nation.
Tonight, the lions went to 5-0, the freaking lions, the worst team in football from the worst hit city in America. The crowd was galvanized and energized. they punked the bears in statistical ways never before done in the bears 92 year history. I thought I heard chants of “U S A” in the back of my mind circa 1980. The detroit tigers may go to the world series 9I can;t describe the games because baseball makes me fall asleep faster than tylenol PM).
But that’s it, the protests will end, the epitome of the working man, the detroit fan, has started the next real revolution. I’m not a detroit sports fan, but i am a student of the human collective psyche, that same psyche that propelled New Orleans to a superbowl post katrina and if all you do is read about politics and believe in politics, you are going to miss the truth as it happens. I still think the packers win the division, but I’m smart enough not to bet against the lions at home because the world just changed, just like it did in 1980. This revolution will start in the motor city and it wont be because of voting.
