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In reply to the discussion: Dear globalists, allow me to explain why Americans are rebelling en masse against you [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)25. Yep. Exactly. NAFTA. Cutting social programs.
Clinton may have been a Democratic President, but he was definitely not a liberal President. He was a conservative Democrat.
The 1% would never allow a liberal in the WH, and they control the media propaganda, campaign finance, and primary system to insure that no liberal can ever get near the WH.
Subcomandante Marcos, in the 90's:
The global power of the financial centers is so great, that they can afford not to worry about the political tendency of those who hold power in a nation, if the economic program (in other words, the role that nation has in the global economic megaprogram) remains unaltered. The financial disciplines impose themselves upon the different colors of the world political spectrum in regards to the government of any nation. The great world power can tolerate a leftist government in any part of the world, as long as the government does not take measures that go against the needs of the world financial centers. But in no way will it tolerate that an alternative economic, political and social organization consolidate. For the megapolitics, the national politics are dwarfed and submit to the dictates of the financial centers. It will be this way until the dwarfs rebel .
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/ezln/1997/jigsaw.html
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/ezln/1997/jigsaw.html
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Dear globalists, allow me to explain why Americans are rebelling en masse against you [View all]
Zalatix
Mar 2012
OP
As a believer in the value of trade (like FDR), I know I quake in my boots every time you post.
pampango
Mar 2012
#14
? Conservatives put the deadliest globalists in history in office. George W. Bush on Free Trade:
Zorra
Mar 2012
#18
There was no NAFTA 30 years ago when my job and about ten million more were eliminated
NNN0LHI
Mar 2012
#19
But not the kind of "globalist" envisioned by right wing conspiracy theorists.
pampango
Mar 2012
#33