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"Both Parties Tone Deaf or do they just listen only to Elites????"
That's how it is these days, they have all bought into the crap ideology of corporatism, and they truly believe that the big corporations are the Source From Which All Good Things Flow.
It is hard for them not to believe it, since their paychecks depend upon their believing it -- or at least saying they believe it, and acting as if they believe it, which after all has the same effect. Also from time to time they have to face the mothers of young people who have lost their limbs or their lives defending "our way of life", which in reality amounts to defending the worldwide depredations of said corporations. Just remember that the next time you hear one of them defending "our troops, the best and bravest and wonderfulest citizens of all who fight to keep us safe! yes they do!".
I have nothing against our troops by the way, at least not most of them. They are pawns in this ridiculous and deadly game. But the truth is, our police actions around the world have nothing to do with protecting you and me and our way of life, and have everything to do with protecting the profits of our biggest corporations, who in turn have repaid Uncle Sam by removing their operations overseas, moving jobs overseas while cutting jobs here, and removing their profits to offshore tax havens so they don't have to pay Uncle Sam diddly squat.
And our politicians know all this, they just won't ever come out and say any of it. They're too busy playing their deeply cynical games, making all of us suffer because they don't want to rock the boat and they want to be part of the privileged group that gets to amass personal fortunes of funny money which in turn allows them to have multiple houses and yachts and what-have-you while we peons struggle daily and wonder what the hell happened to our way of life anyway? These yahoos don't care, they talk about education while building more prisons and they talk about being pro-life while continuing to feed the world's largest ever war machine and they talk about Christian values while screwing people out of their pensions and their medical care and ... it goes on and on.
Yes, they listen only to each other and the rest of the elite class. Sure they have some disagreements among themselves, but these pale in comparison to their unity in believing that the unwashed masses are ignorant and fundamentally expendable.
Well they will find out one of these fine days just who is expendable.
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