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I have to go to bed soon. Food, clothing, shelter, work(and I know I’m lucky there), and all that. So I’ll be brief. Apologies if I don’t reply to everyone for a day.
This election has something in common with World War II. No matter what Allied propaganda said about the Axis, the truth turned out to be worse. Likewise, in this election, pretty much everything the Obama campaign says about Romney will be true, or worse. Conversely, pretty much everything the Romney campaign says about Obama will also be true. Or worse.
You see, they don’t even have to lie about each other to get their point across. Oh, they’ll lie about themselves, but they don’t have to lie about each other, so why bother? Romney will say that Obama is incompetent and destroying the economy. Obama will say that Romney is out of touch and supporting a radical, Social Darwinist agenda.
Both are telling the truth about each other, and both are lying about themselves.
And neither one will ever get anywhere close to the heart of the mental illness that is gnawing away at the lives of the vast majority of the American people, which, to be fair, most of us don’t want to recognize, either. And that is capitalism itself. The ONLY objective of capitalism is the creation of more capital, by any means available. The mostest and the soonest. That’s it. It’s really quite simple.
Greed and lust for profit rule. For now.
It can’t last. It doesn’t freakin’ WORK, not for most of us, anyway. In the long run, it doesn’t even work for the top 10% or so, though this time around they have no FDR to save them from themselves.
In sum, this presidential election is a sick joke. That is all.
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Yes it is often more telling about what liars do not talk about but what they should be talking about than what they talk about.
The health of the banks, Solartopia’s post about nuclear power plants maybe being canceled for lack of funds and power consumers protesting higher power rates.
I expect Obama and the GOP to stop talking about global warming as the summer heats up.
I expect them to both stop talking about healthcare for if the Supremes kill Obamacare then National Healthcare would get more interest.
What other topics are the Dem/GOP avoiding? When we identify their silence we find their weakness.
Enjoy :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqpFm7zAK90 – Mouseland
I accept the premise that, generally speaking, Democrats are more supportive of a social safety net than Republicans are. I also accept the stereotype that, again, generally speaking, Democrats are more supportive of redistributing wealth (e.g. graduated tax rates) than Republicans are.
The problem, though, is that the Democrats are also supportive of Big Banking, Big Oil, Big Military, Big Insurance, Big Med, Big Agriculture, Big Pharma, Big Media, Big Telecom and all the other “Bigs” that leave the little people and the “hand-out programs” they depend on with little or nothing.
Ultimately, the goal should not be a massive social safety net but rather a democratic economic system that obviates, or at least greatly reduces, the need for one. Capitalism, by design, was never intended to do that.
Tragically, elections will do absolutely nothing to end rich-get-richer governance and the tyranny it creates. Whether Romney wins or Obama wins, four years from now the rich will be richer and the rest of us will be increasingly desperate. When you realize that the average “real wage” in the US has not increased since 1973, even after all the Democrats and all the Republicans so many of us placed our hopes in to make our lives better, you realize there is something that our “great choice” is failing to resolve.
How can you write this without discussing the possibility of voting for a third party? We should not buy into the mainstream media’s myth that the Uniparty is the only choice we have. Much more will probably be required to change things, but that and Occupy are good places to start.
“I accept the premise that, generally speaking, Democrats are more supportive of a social safety net than Republicans are.”
I do not. The clear pattern of their voting in many areas indicates that there is no appreciable difference between democrats and republicans.
See:
Civil Rights – http://newprogs.org/blog/2011/11/09/civil-rights-under-democraticrepublican-uni-party
Economy – http://newprogs.org/blog/2011/11/10/economy-under-democraticrepublican-uni-party
Economic Graphs – http://newprogs.org/blog/2012/03/02/economic-graphs
Education – http://newprogs.org/blog/2012/01/14/education-under-democraticrepublican-uni-party
Environment – http://newprogs.org/blog/2011/11/08/environment-under-democraticrepublican-uni-party
Health Care – http://newprogs.org/blog/2012/04/03/health-care-under-democraticrepublican-uniparty
Transparency – http://newprogs.org/blog/2012/02/27/transparency-under-democraticrepublican-uni-party
Unions – http://newprogs.org/blog/2012/02/05/unions-under-democraticrepublican-uni-party
War – http://newprogs.org/blog/2011/11/11/wars-under-democraticrepublican-uni-party
Whistleblowers – http://newprogs.org/blog/2011/11/09/whistleblowers-under-democraticrepublican-uni-party
Feckless and reckless-those are our choices. I’m voting third party. I’d rather “waste” my vote then pull the lever for either of these two a-holes.
The bottom of the ticket is the critical part of this election. The trend seems for now to be shrinking all of the federal government and expanding the military. That will make state and local decisions all the more important.
The top if the ticket? Yep, pretty much bought out.
The entire ticket is bought out. You can’t run for local dogcatcher (and win) without the aid and endorsement of the local party honchos. ALL DEM POLITICIANS ARE CORRUPT. ALL. PERIOD. (Sorry for using my outdoor voice but…)
x2!
I am voting for Stein or Anderson for President. And I will vote for every available 3rd party progressive candidate in all other races.
I encourage anyone else who is fed up with the Uniparty to do so as well.
“It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don’t want and get it.” – Eugene Debs
Yeah third party for me too. I get many, many letters from the Dems asking for money and spinning their tales of fear.
I have a stock line now that i send in those prepaid envelopes. ” May you rot in the hell that you have facilitated”
Right on.
That about sums up my take on the Dims.
Yes, third-party, all the way down the line. If there’s no third-party candidate, I write in a name.
Dems, Repubs, two sides of the same coin.
As a matter of fact, based on Obama and the Dems successes at implementing right-wing policy, I’d have to say they are the greater of the two evils.
Sorry I have been so busy and negligent not to get back to y’all. Anyway, for what it’s worth, I WILL vote third party in November. Probably for Stewart Alexander, the Socialist candidate. There’s nothing wrong with voting for someone with whom you mostly agree.
Amen.
As a registered Socialist, I will be voting for Stewart/Mendoza on the Socialist Party ticket. I have not yet heard if Dan LaBotz will be taking another stab at running for Ohio US Senate, but I hope he does as I will not be voting for Sherrod Brown this time around.
I am so done with the corporate uniparty!
Highly rec’d.
“Conversely, pretty much everything the Romney campaign says about Obama will also be true.”
Gonna have to disagree on this one. Obama is lot of things but socialist redistributor of wealth, anti-war, liberal, etc. aren’t any of those things.
Well, that’s true. Obama is definitely NOT a socialist. I’m a socialist. WelshTerrier2 is a socialist. Daveparts is a socialist. DiE up above is a socialist.
But whenever Romney accuses Obama of incompetence he is correct. He IS incompetent, except, maybe, when ordering billion dollar assassinations overseas. But I digress.
Of course, how competent is Romney? He’s real good at hostile takeovers, but somehow I don’t think that is what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they created the office of the President.
Two diaries, and yes, the thrust is that it’s all unsustainable for a number of reasons you and I continue to put forth.
It will collapse, this empire.
When the needs of the masses are not tended to, empires collapse.
When over spending on foreign conquest (regardless of the reason why) continues unabated and forsakes domestic needs, empires collapse.
When global health (environmentally) is ignored, empire will collapse (this is new to the history of our species). Sadly, so will many species collapse, maybe our own.
Yep, unsustainable . . . I’ve got maybe 20+ years left . . . it might collapse in my lifetime, who knows. It’s not gonna get better tho, I don’t think, in my lifetime . . . a much different ending of my life than I ever anticipated 45 years ago when I first thot of these matters . . . ;-)