Our Cold Civil War...

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The corporate interests of America are now almost entirely at one with the political interests of America. The people are either relegated to the outskirts as unimportant bystanders or are caught in the cross-fire as casualties of a hostile corporate takeover by American and even foreign corporations. We "the people" do not matter in a country where corporate profits are tied to state policy, which then uses those same corporations to tell us what is real and what is fabricated, what is true and what is false.

Think about this for a moment.

A defense contractor pays heavily into the coffers of political candidates to get them elected to office. After they are elected, those same defense contractors get big contracts -- but for what? If there is no war, how will money already promised to these companies be justified?

The mechanism is of course propaganda, repackaged as news, sold to us to convince us to part with our hard earned money so that the few can profit and re-profit from a veritable buffet of free labor, free brand marketing, and easy money, and all under the banner of patriotism, something which no one will criticize easily or lightly.

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More:

Who's Sorry Now?

Neoconservatism Is Dead

Stop the Presses: Republicans Despise Free Trade...

The Republican Collapse

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Originally posted by hexonutz:
The question is: why most of the links you provide are so obviously anti-republican?

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Originally posted by hexonutz:
Do you imply that none of the Dems are corrupt? Ha ha. <snip> This is not only a Republican problem.

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Originally posted by hexonutz:
This is obviously NOT the problem with conservatism as a political doctrine.

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In 1980, we were the world's LARGEST importer of raw materials, and the world's LARGEST exporter of finished goods. Now, we are the opposite. That same year, we were the world's wealthiest nation, and many of the world's nations were monetarily indebted to US. Now we have completely inverted that status, as we and our dollar ride a downward economic spiral. This can be largely attributed to 25 years of INSANE trade policy, brought about by Reagan and the neocons who followed.

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Originally posted by hexonutz:
The society must recognize its interests first and push the politicians to make those interests a reality. Otherwise the fun will go on.

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I couldn't possibly agree more, which is why I am heavlily involved in revitalizing the Democratic party. As I have stated in the other thread I created, our nation is at a critical and pivotal point in our history.

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THE book to read on this subject.

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This is what ties it all together: tax breaks for the super rich; privatization of government programs and the military; regulatory relief for big corporations; corporate welfare; promiscuous globalization without safeguards for labor standards and the environment; and the appointment of corporate violators to head government agencies that are supposed to regulate them.

...list could go on and on.

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"You have the option to drill additional holes in the label,
causing the record to rotate off the side of the turntable"