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In reply to the discussion: Goldman Sachs CEO Key Investor in Hillary's Son-In-Law's Hedge Fund [View all]woo me with science
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to be beneath contempt.
You are smart enough to be *effective* working on the side of democracy, ethical government, and humanity. Unless it's all part of the persona, your comments about your family and your dogs suggest that there was once some moral core there. I could even believe that you were initially drawn to the Democratic Party because of genuinely believing in what it used to stand for.
But, somewhere along the way, you sold out. You participate in this ugly online manipulation, swarming with other members of the corporate defense brigade to distort, drown out or drive away voices of human beings who are trying to correct the sewer of corporate corruption our government has become. Your words are mean and dishonest, as exemplified by the the absurdity above where you pretended not to comprehend in order to accuse someone of talking about Hillary's sex life. That's low. That's the behavior of a corrupt, morally bankrupt political machine. And you participate in it every day here.
And we get more bloody war for profit, more dead children and despair, more corporatizing the hell out of everything, more hungry schoolkids and homeless seniors, and the trading of our democratic systems for investor state courts and surveillance machines and "Kill Lists" and secret laws and secret courts and private prison industries.
You had a choice, and you chose the side of those who are literally corrupting our democratic system to the point that we may not get it back. You chose the system that manipulates the public with online propaganda rather than representing them, and that relentlessly defends this march into what is literally becoming fascism. That's millions of human lives, millions of futures, for your little paycheck. I couldn't do that type of work. I could not look at my family or at myself in the mirror and choose to participate.
So, no. It wasn't a compliment.