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NYC_SKP

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3. K/R. Both parties use Madison Avenue marketing strategies: polls, focus groups, etc.

Reply to RiverLover (Original post)

Sun Jan 4, 2015, 10:59 PM

Jan 2015

And these tend to dehumanize, categorize, generalize.

Then they pander in very strategic ways.

For Democratic voters, they use obfuscation coupled with "treats" which are shallow gestures:

"We'll decriminalize pot, pay no attention to that war over there."

Fiscally, neither party is particularly honest.

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Distrust fuels populist movement [View all] RiverLover Jan 2015 OP

The sentiment of OWS is not gone by any means. IMO it is getting stronger... L0oniX Jan 2015 #1

The article doesn't say OWS is gone. RiverLover Jan 2015 #2

We must attack the oligarchy ...they are the enemy of Democracy. L0oniX Jan 2015 #4

K/R. Both parties use Madison Avenue marketing strategies: polls, focus groups, etc. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #3

The distractions that the parties fight over are just part of the entertainment for the Oligarchy. L0oniX Jan 2015 #5