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In reply to the discussion: You ain't gonna do shit [View all]onpatrol98
(1,989 posts)I think part of the poster's point isn't that we lose to republicans with 3rd party spoilers, it's the dismay that EVEN with democratic presidents, we get a country run by corporations. Unless we change this dynamic, they effectively have us behaving as lap dogs defending the lesser of two evils rather than truly the best choice for us. Even if you think the health care bill is wonderful, you have to chaffe a bit when you realize insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies actually helped write the bill. I think these corporations are the enemy. GE helps form the energy policy. Thats a bit of a conflict of interest. Even the man many hoped would win against Bush, Gore...was also positioning himself to make millions based on his green policy ideas. The frustration comes when even your best effort to support your best people still doesn't help you like you think it should.
Yes. Obama was better than Romney or McCain. Gore would've been better than Bush. But neither of these two men are interested in running a revolution. They wanted to be President. A revolutionary would never be allowed to emerge through regular media. Do you know how many people really ran for president. Over 200. But only those approved by the regular media were allowed to play. They were gracious enough to let us pick from one of their selected chosen few. The others may have been worthless. But the public was never even permitted to hear their names. When a real revolution finally happens, they'll emerge through the online, uncensored media. The regular media is dying and they know it. That's why they've turned news in side shows with parrots giving us what they know we want to hear instead of the truth.