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In reply to the discussion: You tell me OWS is dead.... [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)These days the trickle down Republicans find their home among the "new" Democrats AKA DLC AKA 3rd Way. Strange how the DLC grew just as those Republicans began to disappear, replaced by what is now a hodge podge of neo-Birchers and Ayn Rand Libertarians (an extreme fascist group far to the right of even Republicans)
So fascists were rebranded as Republicans, Republicans were rebranded as the Democratic "party leadership" taking up more than half the party and Democrats are marginalized and continue being pushed out of the party or already forced to wander the third party wilderness without a political voice
The end result is Democrats that aren't Heritage Foundation loving third way "financially conservative right" supposedly "socially left" centrists are losing all representation. The fucked up bit is issue polls show a majority of people not only are not Reagan emulation conservatives or fascists but very progressive minded about things like social programs and an end to corporate and Banker Rule, but no matter who they vote for they get conservative or fascist policies.
We need a party again, a third party will not be allowed to participate in a meaningful way in our binary system and the big money corporate and banking financiers of both parties will not allow us to regain control of our own Democratic party.
The only hope we have left is occupy, and they are being beaten down by thugs like rabid dogs for doing nothing more than what we are supposed to do in this country when power ignores the wishes of the majority, we ARE supposed to demonstrate and ARE NOT supposed to be beaten and imprisoned for exercising our rights.
It does not bode well, it will be a fight against an enemy of actually less than 1% of the population that nonetheless commands all the weapons and thugs, money, and most forms of media. They also appear to have new improved powers of oppression to physically beat us down, before it's over we will be shedding nearly all of the blood and even our numbers far from guaranteed any sure victory over the .1% of Oligarch rulers.