2016 Postmortem
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(1,890 posts)Check out this fabulous Bill Curry piece. You'll love it.
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/29/we_must_smash_the_clinton_machine_democratic_elites_and_the_media_sold_out_to_hillary_this_time_but_change_is_coming/
Califonz
(465 posts)"Democracy is that system of government under which people, having 60,000,000 native-born adults to choose from, including thousands who are handsome and many who are wise, pick out a Coolidge to be head of state. It is as if a hungry man, set before a banquet prepared by master cooks and covering a table an acre in area, should turn his back upon the feast and stay his stomach by catching and eating flies." -- H.L. Mencken, on the election of Coolidge in 1924.
ProfessorPlum
(11,256 posts)that is one sick burn.
PonyUp
(1,680 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Im beginning to believe it."
Karma13612
(4,552 posts)"You break it, you bought it"
(Drop merchandise in a store like an expensive, vase and then have to pay for it). Not sure if that's always the case but that's the meaning of the phrase.
ANYWAY
I believe that we are now facing the reverse phrase.
You buy, you break it.
The wealthy power elites and corporations have purchased our country's government, so now they are free to break it. Like spoiled children who play with a toy for an hour or so and then move on to another. Except in this case, millions of lives are at stake.