GOP Goal - Completely Bankrupt US Government. Explode The Debt To $30 Trillion If Necessary.

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7. Complicit, not clueless.

We misunderstand politics and our politicians in 2014 when we assume their goal is always to win. That was the old system, democracy.

In oligarchy, the goal is using the two parties you own in whichever way best furthers the corporate agenda of the oligarchy.

These are not hapless Democrats with bad strategy in a functioning representative democracy. This is oligarchy pretending to be democracy. Corporate Democrats did everything possible to depress turnout in the midterms, from their utter lack of a positive agenda, to the outright campaign to demoralize and insult the base online, to the "Accept Doom" DCCC email campaign:

DCCC email campaign: "Accept defeat"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025736826

I believe the PTB have decided it's time for a Republican figurehead next time, and corporatists and propagandists in both parties are working to ensure that it happens. The illusion of democracy is nearly dead, and will continue to die as all the elements of fascism continue to be put into place by our bipartisan, purchased cabal of a government.

But putting a Republican in next time will at least offer a boost to the propaganda machine. Six additional years of relentless, proactive expansion of predatory corporatism, warmongering, and the police/surveillance state under a Democratic administration has woken too many people up to the truth: that corporate money floods BOTH sides of the aisle, and the parties are working in collusion for Wall Street. That is dangerous for the oligarchy.

By installing a Republican next time, the Third Way corporate shills and mouthpieces online will be able to put on their liberal costumes again and pretend to wail alongside the rest of us as the last vestiges of the democratic nation we once knew are drowned in the toilet, this time by Republicans. Of course, all that "opposition" will be carefully and mysteriously futile in terms of policy.

But the important thing is that Dems will be consistently SAYING the right things again, and looking like the firebrand populist party we need them to be.

And the people will be reassured that we really do still have a democracy, we can stop all this silly talk about oligarchy and needing fundamental change and such, and we can all go home and watch "Hunger Games" and grouse because our only problem will be that Republicans are in office for a little while and we need to get them out and the Third Way Democrats back in.