"The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

[The Blue Flower]

V.I. Lenin, explaining Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Bob Barr, Il Drumpf, his minions, and the entire Republican party.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. The media will sell us a horse race at all times whether or not there is one.

They will manufacture a horse race any time they need to.

Witness climate change.

Witness the $2 billion free media the pussy grabbing incompetent authoritarian they horse raced into the White House.

[happy feet]

2. +1

[llmart]

3. +1000

[olegramps]

5. +++++

[krkaufman]

9. Consider campaign ad spending ...

Consider the campaign ad spending that would be skipped, and revenue lost to local broadcasters and cable news, if the news organizations did a proper job of objective issues-based coverage. There’s a disincentive driving coverage. (Aside from horserace coverage also being a lot cheaper than investigative journalism.)

[0rganism]

4. the rope's pretty expensive and we're using it to hang each other

Mr. Lenin might have missed this possibility in his forecast.

[yaesu]

6. Some could also surmise that The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang ourselves

as Democracy can never last under a true capitalist state.

[Skidmore]

7. Democracy

can never last under a true socialist state either.

[yaesu]

8. and yes, capitalists hate anything to do with socialism

for them, its alway money above the peoples needs, the real death panels.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Except for socialist capitalists & social capitalists & enlightened self-interest capitalists. . .nt