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In reply to the discussion: I am so utterly sick of this Third Way shit. [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)And so the response is about Obama, personally.
Actually, that's one of the scariest parts about what is being done to us now. What's happening to our country is not because of one man. It's not about a crazy leader or despot. It is structural and systemic, and that helps it grow unchecked. People raise these alarms about the infestation of our government with corporate money and corporate goals, and people start whining or defending or accusing them of being mean to Obama or thinking the worst of him. They make it personal.
But this is systemic. This has to do with the infestation of corporate money into the heart of our government and political system, with tentacles so deep that we can't even track them all anymore. It's about corporate money, corporate power growing this corporate empire and police state and war machine, and increasingly co-opting government to strengthen and protect itself, while bypassing the people and taking steps to weaken their resistance....because that is what corporations DO. Corporations, by definition, exist to grow and profit. Guiding principles of empathy or compassion or moral responsibility have no role in that, if they interfere with the profit motive.
We have little to do anymore with much of anything our government does.
We are losing our country to these vultures, and it is happening in a million small and not-so-small ways every day. Every day there is a new one.