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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
8. Never have we faced such a fundamental choice
Sat Oct 31, 2015, 01:53 PM
Oct 2015

“Never have we faced such a fundamental choice concerning how much lip service to representative democracy we want our elected Corporate Oligarchy to pay except for Bernie Sanders. Obviously if you want a lot of lip service you should vote Democrat. With the Republicans you’ll still get some lip service, but that will quickly turn to sneering and abuse. It’s up to the electorate in the end.”

Those who are concerned they will make the wrong choice need not worry too much.

“It fair to say that both parties are strong on defense, and that accounts for a large part of our Corporate Oligarchy. In plain terms, nobody’s going to take your precious military-industrial complex away no matter who wins. But, unlike in Russia, we get to choose whether we have a Democratic President who is totally subservient to the military-industrial complex, or a Republican President who is the military-industrial complex.”.....the Exception is Sanders

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