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In reply to the discussion: I hear this from so many Rethugs, "Obama is the worst President in history" [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)no matter on which side of the political spectrum you fall. It seems that the direction of major policy....the police state, the surveillance state, economic policy, privatization...does not change much anymore no matter which party is in power.
But it is in the interest of the corporate propaganda to rile up each side with the language of extremes....teach Republicans to rant that Democrats are the WORST PEOPLE ON EARTH, and vice versa, so that we will vilify the other side......but more importantly, defend our side. In other words, so that we will defend the very same malignant policies under Obama that we decried but Republicans defended under Bush. And so that no matter which party takes the reins and escalates the corporate predatory agenda next, its "team" can be counted upon to defend it, too.
This is how the propaganda machine tries to ensure that half of voters will always rally around and enable the continuation of predatory corporate/police state policies, no matter which party is in power expanding them.
This is a propaganda tactic. Instead of taking the bait to engage in the Two Minutes Hate and circle the wagons around disastrous policy, we should focus on the policy agenda itself and unite as the 99 percent to demand a stop to the corporate policies that are destroying America.