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nebrisSigh...
Your problem is that you, like so many others, are still trying to save The Republic. Sorry, pal, but The Republic died during the Reagan administration, both for the obvious reasons and because the Democrats abandoned the New Deal paradigm and became fully fledged Corporatists.
The Clintons are Corporatists. Obama is a Corporatists. And so is Smilin' Joe. That is just more of the same shit that makes The Rich richer, The Poor poorer and is sucking the life outta the Middle Class. We are now an Oligarchy.
RE Trump's supporters: "Trump hates what they hate and is destroying what they feel has been stolen from them. His base is happy to see it all burn down."
I support Bernie [and probably Warren] not because I think he'll save The Republic, but because I'm pretty sure his policies would make the last few decades of my life a bit easier.
As for the long run...? Well, I wrote the below about ten years ago:
TO DEFEAT THE CORPORATE CONFEDERACY TAKES PATIENCE AND GUILE
“Do not expect to defeat The Corporate Confederacy at the ballot box. Big Money can power its way through almost any election cycle. That is not however a call for Revolution. Big Money can power its way through those as well and rather unpleasantly.
Instead it must always be remembered that by its conscienceless and rapacious nature, the thing sows the seeds of its own destruction. Therefore what is required is both the ability to survive its collapse *and* to have another functional structure extent to replace it. Anything else is empty rhetoric.”
It's seems pretty clear y'all are operating from the Same Ol' Same Ol'. I understand. The future that confronts us IS Fucking Scary. [see Catastrophic Climate Change, Super AI, Nenotech, Genetic Engineering, etc] But the old paradigms ain't gonna save us...
Your problem is that you, like so many others, are still trying to save The Republic. Sorry, pal, but The Republic died during the Reagan administration, both for the obvious reasons and because the Democrats abandoned the New Deal paradigm and became fully fledged Corporatists.
The Clintons are Corporatists. Obama is a Corporatists. And so is Smilin' Joe. That is just more of the same shit that makes The Rich richer, The Poor poorer and is sucking the life outta the Middle Class. We are now an Oligarchy.
RE Trump's supporters: "Trump hates what they hate and is destroying what they feel has been stolen from them. His base is happy to see it all burn down."
I support Bernie [and probably Warren] not because I think he'll save The Republic, but because I'm pretty sure his policies would make the last few decades of my life a bit easier.
As for the long run...? Well, I wrote the below about ten years ago:
TO DEFEAT THE CORPORATE CONFEDERACY TAKES PATIENCE AND GUILE
“Do not expect to defeat The Corporate Confederacy at the ballot box. Big Money can power its way through almost any election cycle. That is not however a call for Revolution. Big Money can power its way through those as well and rather unpleasantly.
Instead it must always be remembered that by its conscienceless and rapacious nature, the thing sows the seeds of its own destruction. Therefore what is required is both the ability to survive its collapse *and* to have another functional structure extent to replace it. Anything else is empty rhetoric.”
It's seems pretty clear y'all are operating from the Same Ol' Same Ol'. I understand. The future that confronts us IS Fucking Scary. [see Catastrophic Climate Change, Super AI, Nenotech, Genetic Engineering, etc] But the old paradigms ain't gonna save us...
