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dreamnightwind

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5. I think of them as beasts of no party
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 12:19 PM
Feb 2016

They represent profits, not people.

Some are former Republicans, most though are just the kind of people that rise up in the pipeline that is controlled by the corporate controlled DNC.

They're allowed to appear liberal on social issues (since it costs corporations nothing if their candidates give lip service to caring about racism, for example), but not allowed to get anywhere near economic populism or getting in the way of the upward redistribution of wealth.

MadFloridian has a long history of many informative posts on the nuts and bolts of how this all came about, well worth the time if you have it, or maybe you've already done this reading. There are a number of books on the subject, too.

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