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(32,139 posts)Our government is flooded with corporate money and now runs on lies and propaganda. We do have a Trojan Horse president. We have an entire government now that routinely lies to us about its goals and conducts elaborate theater, staged votes, to make it appear that they support things they don't. We live in a fake democracy.
At a certain point the rank corruption, the lies, need to be faced head-on for what they are. The entire relationship of Americans to our government has been changed. We are under mass surveillance, and we are targeted 24/7 by a ubiquitous, lying propaganda machine. Perhaps you would be right in saying that we have not had an honest government for a very long time, but the level of outright authoritarian contempt for Americans, the normalization and LEGALIZATION of authoritarian methods of communication and control targeted at us, is beyond what any of us should tolerate.
This TPP is undemocratic, period. It is a Trojan Horse piece of predatory garbage, pushed by Trojan Horse politicians pretending to be working within a democratic government, when what they are really doing is subverting democracy itself.
This should NOT be discussed as though it were just another political disagreement. It is a symbol of the deep corruption of our democracy, and Trojan Horse politicians who achieve their positions with torrents of corporate money and deliberate, orchestrated campaigns of lies are an important aspect of that.