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In reply to the discussion: The real reason a very loud few are posting hostility toward Barack Obama at DU: [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)We might today have a diverse banking and finance system, with regulations that kept the greed and excess of the One Percenters in check, and we probably would not have had the Crash of 08, and a handful of Greedy banks tgat have become "Too Big to Fail."
If more people had gotten overwrought we might have more diversity of media ownership, instead of what we got, which is a handful of shitty Media Monopolies like Clear Channel owning almost every radio and television station in the country. We also could have made the cable companies treat customers decently, instead of gouging us.
If this Internet shit goes through, we'll most likely look bsck snd say "What were we thinking back in 2014' when we gave Comcast and Verison total control of the Internet? I miss the good old days when people could actually afford to run a website. "
Moderation versus desire for more extensive and rapid change is one thing. But when the leaders who supposedly represent us are taking us in the opposite direction,that is not acceptable.
Why the hell do we want to allow them to create another totally predictable and avoidable debacle that will be nearly impossible to fix once these corporate pirates entrench their monopolistic powers that we are about to give them?
This kind of crap is what Republicans do. There is no explaining it away when it is Democrats who are doing the screwing. No excuse. None.