Why bother? They're all screwing us over.

[truedelphi]

186. Let's see - First of all six years ago, we were about to

Enter the very important election cycle of 2008, in which we had choice, it seemed.

I remember being very hopeful, circa January 2008.

But due to my involvement on this very bulletin board, by December 2008, I sadly realized that the chances we had "been played" during that election cycle were probably at least 80-20. I mean, before the end of November 2008, Obama revealed how much he liked Paulson. Then word leaked out that he was going to appoint Tim Geithner for the top spot at Treasury. The main significance of this is that when you start to examine not only the economy but the economy's link to politics, you realize that when back in 2009 or 2010, Tim Geithner told the leaders of European governments that Obama works for him, and not the other way around, he was speaking the Truth. Obama is the mere figure head, the friendly smiling aw shucks kind of guy anyone would want to have as their next door neighbor. But Obama only follows the marching orders of Big Banking, Big Military, Big Pharma, Big Ag, etc.

Anyway, the reason I qualified my "third party" remarks, I put in the words "decent" before that expression, and yes I used that word because it is true that there are really and truly about 33 different parties. Many of them have big problems.

But the Democratic Party has pretty much destroyed the possibility of restoring itself from within. One demonstration: how Rahm Emanuel spent some two if not three years of his life running around the USA, making sure that any FDR-style Democrats got shoved out of any chance of being successfully primaried. Emanuel saw to it that the Democratic Party only primaried Blue Dawgs and there tremendously RW austerity crappola, and their standing behind the Banking Cabal. And their standing behind keeping pot illegal. And being for Surveillance, and the 1.2 Trillions of dollars each year that gets spent on the military and the surveillance MIC.