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As somebody once said of the American left, "there is no "there" there". You simply have two pro-business capitalist parties who have very minor disagreements about the role of government in regulating what goes on.

So it is only natural that the DLC can be bought and sold as any other entity in DC. Every senator with the possible exception of Bernie Sanders, is for hire to the highest bidder. They will tout for the security state, they will lobby on behalf of foreign dictators, they will lobby for growing pineapples in alaska and polar bears in florida, and corn all over the place in defiance of need, logic or the expressed will of the people.

America wanted the finest government money can buy. And now money owns it, lock stock and barrel.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 07:41:30 AM EST
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On the positive side, it can't go on forever. Something is going to break; we need to be ready for it.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 07:50:42 AM EST
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We're watching it break right now
by paving on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 11:27:39 AM EST
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I'm one of the simple folk ... I want something definitive like when the USSR was fragmenting. This slow death crap can go on forever.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 06:17:46 PM EST
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Listening to Washinton Journal (CSPAN) this morning and there's a conversation about "democracy". I suddenly realized that our democracy is NOT about the people having a say in their government, about being able to improve their lot in life; democracy is designed to give the ILLUSION that this is the case so people don't realize how they're being screwed over by the power elite and rise up.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 08:05:50 AM EST
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Listening to Democracy Now. After giving clips of Obama's bullshit address, they interview an Iraqi who is not under any illusion. He stated that Iraq is still an occupied country and will remain so while ANY US forces remain anywhere in Iraq. I wish Americans had such clarity of vision.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 08:20:44 AM EST
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