Well, doesn't that just say it all.

When do we stop calling them representatives and call them what they really are?

Legalized, brazen corruption. The moral sewer of corporate government.

Hillary Clinton is the Kevin Bacon of Wall Street.

She is an author of the antidemocratic TPP, a cozy war profiteering buddy of Kissinger, and the Kevin Bacon of Wall Street, with close connections to virtually every corporate predator in the .1 percent.

Creepy interactive graphic of Hillary Clinton's connections
to the Forbes top 400
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2013/10/30/one-degree-of-hillary-how-clinton-is-connected-to-the-worlds-most-powerful/
(Load the link twice if necessary.)

This nation cannot endure four more years of predatory corporatism and warmongering.

The corporate Red and Blue teams take turns appearing to "get it,"

depending on who the oligarchs decide will be most useful and profitable to have in power for a little while.

President Obama put on a good show of "getting it" when he was running for office in 2008, which ushered in this very useful corporate Democratic presidency for the One Percent. No Republican would have been able to defend and expand the Bush agenda as effectively as Obama has, because the Democratic opposition, after eight years of Bush, would not have tolerated it.

But you can only ram through a Bait and Switch corporate agenda as a Democrat for so long before the people start to catch on to the con game and become very angry about the corruption and lies. It makes sense that the oligarchs have now decided that it's time for a change, and Republicans are being set up now as the party that "gets it."

Rest assured, once Republicans are back in power and continuing the corporate agenda despite having appeared to "get it" during the election, our corporate Democrats will suddenly appear to be the ones who "get it," and they will give a very convincing performance as the powerless but impassioned and principled opposition party for the people. And thus the populace will be reassured that we actually do have a democracy still, because Democrats will once again be saying the right things.

The corporate goal of stealth oligarchy is *always* to ensure that the corporate agenda continues. And they ensure its continuation by ensuring the continued division of the people into our Red and Blue teams, so that half the country will always be defending the corporate agenda, and we can never unite against what is being done to us.

Actually, it has *everything* to do with this awesome story.

The contrast between Jose Mujica's enacted respect and compassion for the poor in his own country, and the slick advertising facade of manipulative, lying PR that passes for concern for the poor by corporate politicians is exactly the point.

We have come to accept the flat-out lies and propaganda assaults of corporate government as business as usual. We shouldn't.

Insincere, massively publicized speeches about reining in military power, followed immediately by huge escalations in military power, a new war in Syria, a new war in Iraq, carpet bombing of captive populations in Gaza, a continuation of the unconscionable droning of civilians in multiple countries with which we are not at war, and a new TRILLION DOLLAR ramp-up of nuclear weapons...That's not acceptable.

Lying, manipulative claims to care about the environment, while selling off expanses of the Gulf of Mexico for drilling, opening the Atlantic Coast for drilling, relentless support for fracking, and defense of the most environmentally predatory "free trade" agreements in this nation's history.....That's not acceptable.

Shameless, lying speeches extolling the government's transparency and protection of whistleblowers and respect for journalism, when we have all seen the treatment of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden by this administration, and when we have all witnessed the outrageous targeting of investigative journalists through abuse of the Espionage Act....That's not acceptable.

Disgusting claims to represent the interests of the 99 percent, while stuffing the cabinet with predatory corporatists, signing cuts in aid for the poor and disabled repeatedly, putting SS on the table as a "greater evil" to justify the imposition of austerity greater even that that Paul Ryan initially requested, giving nauseating speeches about the need to eat our peas while repeating Republican LIES tying SS to the defiicit, personally lobbying to gain settlements for criminal bankers, and then unconscionably lobbying for the criminal CRONYBUS to even further deregulate banks and allow the looting of America to happen again.....That's not acceptable.

We are fed on slick PR and orchestrated lies as standard MO of our government now. This administration has legalized propaganda aimed at Americans that was considered unacceptable in previous decades. We are constantly assaulted with vapid pretty words and pictures that lie to our faces about what this administration cares about and is actually doing. And now we cannot even have discussion on the internet without the weird, creepy voices of corporatism infesting every single conversation through relentless disinformation and propaganda campaigns revealed by Edward Snowden and others.

This nation has sunk to the level of a corrupt, totalitarian state in its contempt for its own citizens, all because corporate money now drives everything it does. This is the difference between a representative government and a corporate government. By definition, corporations exist to grow their own profit and power. They don't represent anyone but themselves. They manipulate to grow profit, just like our government constantly manipulates us to sell the profitable, predatory corporate agenda it has already decided to implement against our interests.

Of course my comment is relevant, as shown by the immediate, predictable, defensive response. This humble president of Uruguay reminds us of what our representatives are supposed to be. That is why the PR brigade is threatened by this thread. It reveals an ugly truth about what we have a right to expect from those who claim to be our representatives....but don't receive anymore except in cynical, lying corporate advertisements.

MOST TRANSPARENT PRESIDENCY EVER!!!!111!11!!!1

What a load of lying horseshit.

I want to see the budgets for propagandizing the American people, too. From the smear campaigns and the MSM propaganda, down to the brigades of lying, insulting fake personas on the internet. Representing the citizens, my ass. We are lied to and manipulated as a matter of daily routine now. This ostensibly democratic, representative nation has sunk to the level of any cheap, exploitative totalitarian state in its utter contempt for its own citizens.


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The Bait and Switch
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026164464

Twenty Pounds of BS in a Ten-Pound Bag
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026123287

Lies upon lies upon lies
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6165449

The Democratic Party's Deceitful Game":
They are willing to bravely support any progressive action as long as there's no chance it can pass.
http://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/democrats_34/

Obama taps "cognitive infiltrator" Cass Sunstein for Committee to create "trust" in NSA:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023512796

Editor of major German newspaper says he planted stories for CIA
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026163872

Salon: Obama confidant’s spine-chilling proposal: Cass Sunstein wants the government to "cognitively infiltrate" anti-government groups
http://www.salon.com/2010/01/15/sunstein_2/

The US government's online campaigns of disinformation, manipulation, and smear.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024560097

Snowden: ‘Training Guide’ for GCHQ, NSA Agents Infiltrating and Disrupting Alternative Media Online
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/02/25/snowden-training-guide-for-gchq-nsa-agents-infiltrating-and-disrupting-alternative-media-online/

The influx of corporate propaganda-spouting posters is blatant and unnatural.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3189367

U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News To Americans
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023262111

The goal of the propaganda assaults across the internet is not to convince anyone of anything.*
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023359801

The government figured out sockpuppet management but not "persona management."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023358242

The Gentleman's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4159454

Seventeen techniques for truth suppression.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4249741

Just do some Googling on astroturfing - big organizations have some sophisticated tools.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1208351

What a contrast to the predation, lies, and manipulative PR we are fed day after day.

Obama taps "cognitive infiltrator" Cass Sunstein for Committee to create "trust" in NSA:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023512796

Salon: Obama confidant’s spine-chilling proposal: Cass Sunstein wants the government to "cognitively infiltrate" anti-government groups
http://www.salon.com/2010/01/15/sunstein_2/

The US government's online campaigns of disinformation, manipulation, and smear.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024560097

Snowden: ‘Training Guide’ for GCHQ, NSA Agents Infiltrating and Disrupting Alternative Media Online
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/02/25/snowden-training-guide-for-gchq-nsa-agents-infiltrating-and-disrupting-alternative-media-online/

The influx of corporate propaganda-spouting posters is blatant and unnatural.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3189367

U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News To Americans
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023262111

The goal of the propaganda assaults across the internet is not to convince anyone of anything.*
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023359801

The government figured out sockpuppet management but not "persona management."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023358242

The Gentleman's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4159454

Seventeen techniques for truth suppression.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4249741

Just do some Googling on astroturfing - big organizations have some sophisticated tools.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1208351

Lies upon lies upon lies. Yes, bait and switch is the corporate MO.

Used on Madison Avenue, and now used serially by our own government to dupe and exploit its own citizens.

This is the difference between corporate government and representative government. Corporate government operates for profit, within a moral cesspool of deception. The goal is to put one over on us in order to reap as much profit as possible, rather than to fulfill the democratic, moral and ethical imperative of serving as our democratic representatives.

Lies upon lies upon lies.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=865705

A pattern of election year speeches brazenly misrepresenting his administration's own behavior.

...That heavily publicized speech about reining in military involvement...followed immediately by Obama's escalations, new wars in Syria and Iraq, funding of the Gaza horror, and a new trillion-dollar nuclear weapons escalation.

....The shameless claim to support net neutrality, while deliberately appointing corporate shills with an opposite agenda.

....Obscene lies about supporting whistleblowers, when we have all witnessed this administration's treatment of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, and the relentless, systematic crackdown on whistleblowing in the federal government.

...Highly publicized lies about caring for the environment, while opening the Atlantic for drilling and pushing the malignant TPP.

...Brazen lies and promises to protect the 99 percent, while twisting arms for Cronybus, *more* deregulation of criminal banks, and more predation of the masses by the One Percent.



War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
Torturers are Patriots.

We all live in Oceania now.

Corporate government lies for corporate ends. It has contempt for the people and sees us as merely entries in a profit ledger, "human resources" to exploit rather than human citizens to serve. It is savagely amoral and antidemocratic at its core and seeks to dismantle the democratic systems that allow us to protect ourselves from its machinations. We are witnessing the deliberate, malignant destruction of democracy by corporations and their purchased politicians.

Third Way "Democrats" are liars and predators. They are antidemocratic. They are the Wall Street-funded, deliberate infiltration of our party by the corporate predators, working with corporatist Republicans to usher in the dismantling of our democracy itself.