Snowstalker Mk. II
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« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2011, 09:24:06 PM » |
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I'd be pissed too when a party not only has half its membership considering you to be an illegitimate leader, but when that party pushes for an end to free and fair elections to instead have candidates effectively hand-picked by corporations, which stifle any effective opposition with lies and smears (if the 2004 campaign was even slightly honest, Kerry would have won unanimously), touting freedom from government but wanting a camera on every streetcorner and to execute women who want to terminate their pregnancy, and have no greater desire than to extend the fist of war to any foreign nation they please. It all comes back to corporatism. The Republican Party hasn't cared about the people since Nixon; only about getting elected and making money. Starting wars is an effective way to make money, from not only oil in Arabia but the money made from the military-industrial complex. Eisenhower warned us about the danger of an alliance between big business and the war hawks; we have ignored that warning, and it has gotten us into a worse financial situation than ever. Those who dissent are ignored by the right-wing mainstream media, or tarred as a traitor like Manning, one of the greatest heroes in the last 10 years. The party whose policies have created the greatest income gap since before the Great Depression, who have done anything possible to help get more cash into CEO's pockets while crushing unions who might lead to the CEO's personal income being 5% lower (and still several hundred times greater than their average employee), and have crippled American industry with free-trade agreements with countries with poor labor policies, allowing them to not only exploit them but take jobs from American workers, all while pushing the guise of fiscal responsibility. The modern Republican party is the most dangerous since the CPSU of the early 1960's.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini
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