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nolabels

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15. More concise terms you're saying that is no actual effective party working for the common person?
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 10:23 AM
Mar 2017

This is not actually breaking some news. Many of us figured that out thirty or forty years ago.
We have been told at nauseam to vote for the lesser of two evils since like forever. Well, that was done but what you now have come to observe is that estate lords and slave owners have always had a larger sway with the government than it's citizens.

The entirety of the revolutionary papers was written that way back in day because the revolutionaries knew they would need the resources of these type of people for them to succeed. Lawyerly people have always had a way of polishing over the real facts with flowery conjunctive words. It is the why and how they do what they do.

It's also important to note the whole thing was written with enough open interpretation space that would ensure things remained similar as before. This is to say, that as long as those who put in and controlled the levers of the compromised elected officials stayed in there, then they would mostly be able to do as the pleased at any rate. And that has how it has mostly been since then

Just like the good ole days back in the Roman days, more bread and circuses.

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Good observations roscoeroscoe Mar 2017 #1
It's because capitalism, left to its own devices, creates the society that the Republicans' masters ProfessorPlum Mar 2017 #2
I have but one word to offer to your description of the future Friend or Foe Mar 2017 #10
Thank you so much for that concise explanation, I wish disalitervisum Mar 2017 #11
It's why GHWBush called Reagan's tax structure ProfessorPlum Mar 2017 #16
Absolutely. My first thought on waking this a.m. was "are we just going to let them kill everything JudyM Mar 2017 #13
More concise terms you're saying that is no actual effective party working for the common person? nolabels Mar 2017 #15
I suppose it depends on your definition of "effective" ProfessorPlum Mar 2017 #17
I agree but would also say.... nolabels Mar 2017 #18
What happens when there's no one left to buy Crunchy Frog Mar 2017 #19
on that day, my dear Frog, the sky will open up, ProfessorPlum Mar 2017 #20
n/t babylonsister Mar 2017 #3
Amen to that! kentuck Mar 2017 #4
I don't believe they even want to govern Victor_c3 Mar 2017 #6
K & R SunSeeker Mar 2017 #5
It began a long time ago mountain grammy Mar 2017 #7
They've gone from greedy unscrupulous bastards to raving meth-addled sadists. lagomorph777 Mar 2017 #8
Wow! Paul Krugman is right on the money! Nitram Mar 2017 #9
The Gang that Could Not Shoot Straight Scarsdale Mar 2017 #12
The authoritarian mindset that comprises a republican Nac Mac Feegle Mar 2017 #14
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