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woo me with science's JournalThey don't cower. They collude.
So tired of corporate corruption being miscast for public consumption as some type of psychological neurosis.
All things working to plan...
in bipartisan, corporate-owned neoAmerica.
We already got austerity, two new wars, food stamp cuts, "pension smoothing," drilling, fracking, corporate education....
kill lists, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and a trillion dollar ramping up of nuclear weapons...
Time now for Keystone, TPP, TISA, and Chained CPI!
Keep that Doublethink working, folks. Our good, Democratic President is going to keep showing us why we rally around the Blue Team!
+1000000 The corporate message machine.
North Korean propaganda has nothing on American propaganda.
"The best slave is the one who thinks he is free."
-Johann von Goethe
Thank you. When people have two terrible options,
they tend to lurch back and forth between them in protest. Or give up.
People realize that *neither* party is working for their interests.
No matter which party is elected, we keep getting the same overall direction of austerity, TPP, TISA, mass surveillance, "Kill Lists," indefinite detention, secret laws, secret courts, corporate education, drilling, fracking, new wars in Syria and Iraq, a TRILLION dollar ramping up of nuclear weapons when our president is signing ANOTHER round of food stamp cuts and a farm bill based on "pension smoothing." Not a single major banker in the mortgage collapse/theft held accountable, journalists and whistleblowers under assault, mass propaganda machines...It goes on and on and on.
People don't want to go in this direction. Seventy-six percent of them say we are going in the wrong direction. So they keep trying to switch parties, or trash it all and start over, but they keep getting the same direction anyway.
Add: The propaganda state, including online campaigns of propaganda, disinformation and smear,
Suppression of dissent, including assaults on, surveillance of, and intimidation of whistleblowers, journalists, and protesters. Refusal to protect net neutrality.
Secrecy. Secret laws, secret courts, secret trade agreements, secret budgets, secret kill and no fly lists, secret lists of citizens under suspicion, ignoring or thumbing nose at FOIA requests, redacted releases, fabricated evidence trails, and lies.
No, when people feel trapped between two terrible options,
they tend to lurch back and forth between them in protest.
What you are seeing is a symptom of people's awareness that *neither* party is working for their interests.
No matter which party is elected, we keep getting the same overall direction of austerity, TPP, TISA, mass surveillance, "Kill Lists," indefinite detention, secret laws, secret courts, corporate education, drilling, fracking, new wars in Syria and Iraq, a TRILLION dollar ramping up of nuclear weapons when our president is signing ANOTHER round of food stamp cuts and a farm bill based on "pension smoothing." Not a single major banker in the mortgage collapse/theft held accountable, journalists and whistleblowers under assault, mass propaganda machines...It goes on and on and on.
People don't want to go in this direction. Seventy-six percent of them say we are going in the wrong direction. So they keep trying to switch parties, but they keep getting the same direction anyway.
There's that word, "miracle" again. It's a neat way to gloss over the actual record and
to pretend that "miracles" are needed to appoint people to your cabinet and administration who are not raging corporatists, over and over and over again.
To pretend that it takes a "miracle" NOT to go to the Supreme Court over and over again to defend and expand Bush's surveillance and police state. Or decline to renew an executive order collecting mass surveillance on Americans. Or choose not to sign approval of "Kill List" and indefinite detention, or choose not to reject an amendment to your approval of "Kill Lists" that would have made it clear that American citizens are not included. Or reject Cass Sunstein at the door rather than embracing his visions of mass propaganda aimed at Americans to get them to support this fascistic garbage.
To pretend that it takes a "miracle" NOT to embrace Arne Duncan as your education secretary and oversee the continued corporatization of American schools. Or to choose NOT to sell off huge parts of the Gulf of Mexico to gas and oil companies. Or maybe not to choose to ramp up the US nuclear weapons program to the tune of a TRILLION DOLLARS right now, after you've just signed *another* round of food stamp cuts and a farm bill based on "pension smoothing" and one out of four American children live in poverty.
To pretend that it it takes a "miracle" NOT to wage a war against journalists and whistleblowers, to hold a journalist in prison in Yemen, to change the meaning of the Espionage Act so that it now applies even to receipt of leaked information by journalists that is NOT harmful to the United States....and to use that Espionage Act against more journalists than any other president in history....to the point that we are plummeting in press freedoms and reputation around the world.
To pretend that it takes a "miracle" to *start out* in budget negotiations with something on the table other than cuts in social services for the most vulnerable Americans....say, even to MENTION something like corporate welfare instead, or maybe NOT making 75 percent of the Bush tax cuts permanent.
And to CHOOSE....when one third of American families are a paycheck away from homelessness and your "recovery" has resulted in a mass replacement of good jobs with low pay temporary and service work, to CHOOSE as your upcoming big agenda items the TPP and the TISA, which will slash jobs, force Americans to compete with Third World workers, and hand corporations unprecedented power over even our own democratic laws and protections.
You know, people have posted those lists over and over and over again. You know the lists I mean...the ones that keep getting longer and longer and longer....The lists that don't show the administration putting progressive ideas on the table and being obstructed, but rather show them PROACTIVELY, OVER AND OVER AGAIN, defending, entrenching, and expanding the MOST malignant policies that began under Bush and aggressively expanding the corporate agenda.
Remember? Here is a whole truckload of specific examples for you, if you're still pretending you don't:
Poor Obama.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5601580
Seriously. Nobody is asking for a miracle. They are asking for representation for the people rather than corporations. Which they are not getting now, because BOTH PARTIES ARE FLOODED WITH CORPORATE MONEY. Why did President Obama appoint a shill for the telecoms to the FCC, and why is the administration now dragging its feet on protecting net neutrality, all their empty words (read: lies) about their intentions notwithstanding? Look at corporate contributions to the Obama campaign. And multiply that across every issue, across every corporate Democrat and every corporate Republican. The parties are bought. Our nation is bought. A study through Princeton University has confirmed that we are bought.
You know it's systemic and a bipartisan problem. You're not stupid. I don't know the motivations of those who cooperate in selling this garbage, this absurd corporate narrative of incessant denial that poisons this nation and keeps us circling wagons and unable to unite against the corruption that is murdering democracy and allowing these corporate monsters to drive millions into war and poverty and despair. But I wish those participating would take a good, long, hard look at what they really want to stand for in their lives and for their families and children.
Stop pretending. Seriously. Spare it.
More importantly, polls show consistently that on actual ISSUES,
voters across party lines are well to the left of the agenda we've been fed under corporatism. By strong margins, voters detest austerity, want to rein in the warmongering, distrust the security state, want to hold banks accountable...
Voters are unhappy with the direction the country is going, by 76 percent, I believe. That's across party lines, too.
And those issues on which they stand clearly to the left of corporate Democrats are precisely the issues about which corporate Democrats lie their way through campaign seasons in order to get votes: because they KNOW the electorate is more liberal than they are.
Application of broad, generic labels such as "liberal" and "conservative" are meaningless in a country where a corporate-purchased media machine consistently distorts the meaning of those words. Hell, FOX New viewers think Obama is a *socialist,* for gawd's sake.
Hell, look at corporatists right here at DU who bleat defense of "Kill Lists" and indefinite detention and corporate school policies and drilling and fracking and mass surveillance and austerity....and then turn around and describe themselves as "liberals"!
What a joke. It would be hilarious if it weren't so sad.
So how was it that this racism that accounts for low turnout
didn't kick in until AFTER Obama won in a landslide in 2008?
I"m sure you're right that his promises on policy couldn't have had anything to do with the extraordinary enthusiasm for his campaign then.
I'm sure you're right that his promises to put on his comfortable walking shoes to support unions and raise wages, and roll back the horrendous security state, and stand up for Americans against corrupt banks, and not sign anything that didn't have a public option were irrelevant to the enthusiasm. I'm sure that his "Hope and Change" message implying that he would oppose rather than entrench and expand the Bush agenda didn't have anything to do with the crowds.
Somehow, there was a tear in the universe that year that allowed landslide support for him despite the racism that makes it impossible to expect such levels of support for him or any Democrats associated with him now.
But how? Was there a solar phenomenon active just during the months of that campaign that kept voters from noticing his skin color?
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