Hedges

[Thailandnotes]

“Republicans, like Democrats, did not prevent wages from declining, unemployment and chronic underemployment from mounting, foreclosures from ripping apart communities, banks from looting the U.S. treasury, or jobs from being exported. The two major parties colluded to pass trade agreements, ranging from NAFTA and the WTO to the now-pending TPP, that impoverish workers and weaken the power of government to intervene to protect the citizenry and the environment. They worked together to strip citizens of constitutional rights and install the most pervasive security and surveillance state in human history. They collaborated with Wall Street to trash the global economy and seize trillions in taxpayer money in bailouts. The two parties funded disastrous and futile imperial wars that enrich the arms manufacturers and defense contractors while bankrupting the nation. They militarized police, rewrote the laws to explode our prison population and destroyed social service programs such as our welfare system, which was dismantled by the Clinton administration. The two parties orchestrated the corporate coup d’état while diverting citizens with the battles over gay rights, abortion, “Christian” values, gun laws and affirmative action….

“We have entered a new and dangerous phase in American political life. The ruling political elites have been exposed as charlatans.”

http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2...ogues_20151129

[lektrode]

Re: Hedges

“Republicans, like Democrats, did not prevent wages from declining, unemployment and chronic underemployment from mounting, foreclosures from ripping apart communities, banks from looting the U.S. treasury, or jobs from being exported. The two major parties colluded to pass trade agreements, ranging from NAFTA and the WTO to the now-pending TPP, that impoverish workers and weaken the power of government to intervene to protect the citizenry and the environment. They worked together to strip citizens of constitutional rights and install the most pervasive security and surveillance state in human history. They collaborated with Wall Street to trash the global economy and seize trillions in taxpayer money in bailouts. The two parties funded disastrous and futile imperial wars that enrich the arms manufacturers and defense contractors while bankrupting the nation. They militarized police, rewrote the laws to explode our prison population and destroyed social service programs such as our welfare system, which was dismantled by the Clinton administration.

The two parties orchestrated the corporate coup d’état while diverting citizens with the battles over gay rights, abortion, “Christian” values, gun laws and affirmative action….

“We have entered a new and dangerous phase in American political life. The ruling political elites have been exposed as charlatans.”

http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2...ogues_20151129

nothing to disagree with here - however - its the near continuous HOGWASH that pukes out of the DNC that they use to try to convince the working class that Team D is 'on our side'

which is the BIGGEST/PUREST bullshit story EVER told.

the 'only side they're on' is with whatever is the most trendy/fashionable 'victim group' du jour - aka 'identity politix' - that can be used to peel-off another 1or2% 'margin of victory' and TO HELL WITH THE MAJORITY of The Rest of US!

and the lamerstream media is THE way they orchestrate it all, since my obs is that the op/ed depts are most all staffed by 'diversity worshippers' and that 'if it didnt make the NY times, it didnt happen'

[LazyBoy]

Re: Hedges

nothing to disagree with here - however - its the near continuous HOGWASH that pukes out of the DNC that they use to try to convince the working class that Team D is 'on our side'

I don't suppose you're saying that you respect Team R for not even pretending?