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Oh, spare it. He has defended, entrenched, and EXPANDED all the most malignant aspects
of the Bush corporate agenda *since Day One.* He has defended and accelerated the continued looting of the nation by oligarchs. Inequality is expanding. Careers are replaced by low-paying jobs. Virtually all new wealth is now going to the top One Percent.
It was a restructuring, not a recovery. And this administration has been complicit. What you just repeated is corporate propaganda. And not just corporate propaganda, but absurd, blatantly and brazenly untrue corporate propaganda. It is the equivalent of Orwell's "2+2=5." It is flatly and glaringly inconsistent with reality. It's gotta really suck when your *entire,* handpicked administration goes rogue and spends YEARS working aggressively, consistently, and proactively against all of your most cherished goals. Ohhhh, 'But it's obstruction!' will be the predictable reply. But that's nonsense, too. In fact, Obama has been SO deeply and existentially obstructed that his administration's own record looks like this:
 
Why the incessant repetition of a talking point that is so obviously, even brazenly, inconsisent with reality? Why pretend that this president has not been a diligent, highly effective corporate Trojan horse for Wall Street? Because it's propaganda. A drumbeat of the absurd: "2+2=5." We are to overlook the obvious elephant in the room, the deluge of corporate money that drives these vicious, antidemocratic, looting, and warmongering policies in both parties. We are to ignore the agreement of the parties on virtually every single economic, war, and police state issue important to the One Percent: Red vs. Blue = Oligarchy Theater for the masses.
Mass spying on Americans? Both parties support it. Handing the internet to corporations? Both parties support it. Austerity for the masses? Both parties support it. Cutting social safety nets? Both parties support it. Corporatists in the cabinet? Both parties support it. Tolling our interstate highways? Both parties support it. Corporate education policy? Both parties support it. Bank bailouts? Both parties support it. Ignoring the trillions stashed overseas? Both parties support it. Trans-Pacific Job/Wage Killing Secret Agreement? Both parties support it. TISA corporate overlord agreement? Both parties support it. Drilling and fracking? Both parties support it. Wars on medical marijuana instead of corrupt banks? Both parties support it. Deregulation of the food industry? Both parties support it. GMO's? Both parties support it. Privatization of the TVA? Both parties support it. Immunity for telecoms? Both parties support it. "Looking forward" and letting war criminals off the hook? Both parties support it. Deciding torturers are patriots? Both parties support it. Militarized police and assaults on protesters? Both parties support it. Indefinite detention? Both parties support it. Drone wars and kill lists? Both parties support it. Targeting of journalists and whistleblowers? Both parties support it. Private prisons replacing public prisons? Both parties support it. Unions? Both parties view them with contempt. Trillion dollar increase in nuclear weapons. Both parties support it. New war in Iraq. Both parties support it. New war in Syria. Both parties support it. Carpet bombing of captive population in Gaza. Both parties support it. Selling off swaths of the Gulf of Mexico for drilling? Both parties support it. Drilling along the Atlantic Coast? Both parties support it. Neocons and neolibs sure have a lot in common. So much in common that they almost seem like the very same people:
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Posted by woo me with science | Tue Feb 10, 2015, 09:42 PM (8 replies)
No, because it's PROFITABLE and sustains the illusion of democracy.
This question in the OP is always the weak "trump card" attempted in the corporate talking points to deny that we are an oligarchy now rather than a democracy.
We are supposed to scratch our chins and nod wisely and conclude that these corporations wouldn't do something silly like WASTE all this money on donating to campaigns if the two candidates didn't really offer a substantive choice! What a crock. What an absurd argument....for one simple reason. It tries to suggest that the oligarchs LOSE money through their donations, when actually they are profiting beyond their wildest dreams. Here was my response the FIRST time this poster attempted this argument. Actually, the entire thread is worth reading, because it exposes the "obstructionism" and "lesser-of-two-evils" deceptions that the corporate talking points use to manipulate us into voting for our own destruction by Wall Street-funded corporate predators: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026197237 Why would corporations spend all this money on campaigns?
ARE YOU SERIOUSLY TRYING TO ARGUE THAT THEY LOSE MONEY BY DOING IT? http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6197863 SERIOUSLY? Because that's perhaps the most absurd spin I've heard all day. Look at this chart posted by Teamster Jeff re: our economic "recovery." Note the circled red numbers. These are the donors you speak of. Reality Check 
The illusion of democracy must be maintained. And you've got to hand it to our .1 percent. They are nothing if not forward-thinking and creative. What can you do, when you dismantle a 240-year-old representative system of government from the inside and replace it with oligarchy and even nascent fascism? What do you do with the shell of that system? The elections? The parties? We have a *corporate oligarchy* focused on profit, so the solution should not be surprising: Don't throw away the shell, the outward trappings, of democracy. Keep it, because it's USEFUL. 1. It's USEFUL because it sustains the illusion of democracy. Hence what we have seen done to our democratic process. Our presidential elections have been turned into an obscene, hyped, massively profitable corporate pageant, a sports event that, as the Princeton study showed, has virtually *nothing* to do with the actual direction of policy or of governance in this country anymore. It is the illusion of democracy, in which the people's voices have no real impact. We have TWO Superbowls in this country now...two major, vapid, nationally hyped and advertised sporting events in which the people are urged to take a side and mindlessly cheer for their side to win. And from which the media oligarchs, the political oligarchs, and the banking oligarchs profit BILLIONS. And the oligarchs are buying up new private islands with the profits from it all.  |
Posted by woo me with science | Sun Feb 8, 2015, 04:07 PM (1 replies)
Of course it has. We are treated like blithering idiots
Posted by woo me with science | Sun Feb 8, 2015, 03:10 PM (1 replies)
It is DANGEROUS to be a real journalist - or a whistleblower who talks to a journalist - today.
Posted by woo me with science | Sun Feb 8, 2015, 01:46 PM (19 replies)
This is police state. And, yes, it will make protest a felony.
Posted by woo me with science | Sat Feb 7, 2015, 08:23 PM (1 replies)
We live in a vile, dishonest, magnificently funded propaganda state,
Posted by woo me with science | Sat Feb 7, 2015, 09:24 AM (5 replies)
John Kiriakou is not broken. He's a hero.
Posted by woo me with science | Wed Feb 4, 2015, 11:31 PM (2 replies)
Actually, I consider what you do here
Posted by woo me with science | Wed Feb 4, 2015, 03:57 PM (2 replies)
I call that, "The Call to Stupid,"
Posted by woo me with science | Wed Feb 4, 2015, 02:51 PM (3 replies)
Predictable personal attacks. Predictable defensive PR response when
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We are fed on slick PR and orchestrated lies as standard MO of our government now. |
Posted by woo me with science | Wed Feb 4, 2015, 09:28 AM (1 replies)
