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In reply to the discussion: Many of us are still going to protest. Some might not like our "tactics". [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)People permitting the rise of corporatism.
In fact, I think that 62.5% of the eligible voting public turned out to vote for Barack Obama over McCain. This uptick in the voting numbers shows people were using the internet to understand the issues.
For instance, a littel background: during President Clinton's time in office, I believed him to be a good President. I read the newspaper, and it seemed he did a good job for us Middle Class people.
It was only after I got hooked on the internet that I discovered how he set up NAFTA, and he signed the 1996 Telecommunications Act that stole the "free airwaves" out from under us. Only the internet allowed me to realize that his signing off on several major bank "reform" bills in 1999 and 2000 was a betrayal of the Middle Class.
And Barack Obama was promising us that he would end NAFTA. Many of us who voted for Obama believed that ending NAFTA, and the globalism it represented, would be a good start.
He got elected, and then he betrayed that promise. In fact, in immediately appointed one Rahm Emanuel, the architect of NAFTA's legal wording, to be his Chief of Staff.