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In reply to the discussion: Here's what I'd really like to hear a presidential candidate say about "keeping Americans safe" [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)23. Not disagreeing, but I think our bank$ter/donors are more dangerous than the police. The
cops get the press, but the rentiers have foreclosed on nearly 5 million families, and moved about 100 million people either into poverty or nearer to it during these past 6 years. Cops don't approach near those numbers or damage even in their wildest jack-booted fantasies.
That the bank$ter/donors commit these atrocities without any press, other than that which gleefully chortles about profit, and the people continue making it possible for them is an extraordinary crime. And the damage from it is very likely to extend out at least three generations, maybe the end of the country.
I would like to have seen someone take them on that wasn't part of a party beholden to them, but perhaps next life.
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Here's what I'd really like to hear a presidential candidate say about "keeping Americans safe" [View all]
Ken Burch
Jun 2015
OP
"We are past the days when a Hitler could emerge...past the days when a Stalin
Snobblevitch
Jun 2015
#10
True. We will never be past the unthinkable; human history proves it over and over again. n/t
susanna
Jun 2015
#17
"To not stand powerful in that position is a loser approach. " < By starting losing wars? After all
jtuck004
Jun 2015
#16
Not disagreeing, but I think our bank$ter/donors are more dangerous than the police. The
jtuck004
Jun 2015
#23
They did miscalculate, but the bank$ter/donors knew exactly what they were doing, and began a theft
jtuck004
Jun 2015
#31
To call ourselves "the world's only superpower" is arrogant and internationally toxic.
Ken Burch
Jun 2015
#19
Yeltsin designated Putin as his successor. That's the only reason Putin was able to take power.
Ken Burch
Jun 2015
#22
Careful how you add all that up. That GDP used to be spread among a lot more people than
jtuck004
Jun 2015
#25
I didn't think you did - what I meant was that I don't think we are the superpower
jtuck004
Jun 2015
#32