Reply #42: The argument that "Democrats suck less" is a large part of why [View All]

[Greyhound]

we are out of power. The rampant (and blatant) corruption from the 70's to this day, is essentially why the Party is held in such disdain by so many amerikans, even though they would probably be much better off with the Democrats running the show. They have seen The Democratic Party sell them out time and again, saying all the time, "so what are you going to do, vote for the re:puke:s?", well guess what, they did, and too many of them still do, and it is our (Democrats) fault.

As for my rage, it is far from indiscriminate, it is directed squarely at all of the politiwhores that have forced one party rule on this country for the last 30+ years. That is, We The People have not been represented by either Democrats nor re:puke:s, since the late 60's. HRC is the particular subject in this exchange but, as I pointed out earlier, is only one of the latest perpetrators of the murder of our nation.

Since the great conflict between progressives and old-line Democrats was lost (sometime between 1968 and 1972), we have been ruled by two branches of, what has become, The Corporate Party. You and I have had no representation in our government since then, with the rare exception being when our position happened to coincide with the wishes of the wealthy, industrial, and corporate, entities (read as, major campaign contributors). That is why we have the system of legalized bribery, corporate welfare, and the endlessly voracious military-industrial complex, that sucks up the truly enormous resources that this nation produces. That is why we have been on the wrong side of every conflict since WWII. That is why we live in the most prosperous nation on earth and still deny health care, education, food, shelter, and justice, to millions of our citizens. It is not, as many people have been conditioned to believe, that we can't afford it, hell we can afford to feed, clothe, care for, and educate the whole world, if we had the will to do so. We could be benefactors to the world and be revered by virtually all of its inhabitants, instead of being reviled as the global bullies we are.

The inevitable counter-argument that this is an unrealistic, pollyanna dream, is simply bullshit programming that has been enculturated from birth by the real powers. We manage to spend over half a trillion dollars every year to maintain a grossly over-sized military that only serves to enforce the injustices we mete out to much of the rest of the world. A fraction of that money is more than sufficient to ensure that no terrorist group could raise a single weapon against us, for nobody would have any desire to see us hurt in any way.

Your notion that when we take control, of Congress this year and the Whitehouse in '08, somehow this will all change and everything will get better is utterly without merit. Without a constant, loud, and vigilant, demand for real, top to bottom, reform of our system, all that will happen is that we will continue down the road to the collapse of our empire and all of the horrible suffering that will accompany it.

Hillary, and those like her, are not the problem, they are a symptom of it.