Outreach to anyone but the left
There was always the plan to attract the right, it's what the Clinton's do best
With less than 100 days left before election day, the Clinton campaign is accelerating its drive to recruit GOP donors, business leaders and foreign policy experts. According to people familiar with the effort, a visible coalition of independents and Republicans backing Clinton will make it easier for conservatives dismayed by Donald Trump to cast their ballots for a Democrat.
The Clinton campaign has been preparing for its Republican outreach effort for months. Around the start of the conventions, it went into gear. Since then, notable Republicans, military leaders and one GOP congressman have abandoned Trump and cast their lot with Clinton. Framing their defections as a moral imperative, the converts are urging fellow Republicans and independents to put “country over party” and join them on 8 November.
This is what I call the elites going on the attack.
Both Bernie and Trump have rattled their gilded world order. The democrats had to connive and cheat to halt Bernie and the Republicans still don't know what the hell hit them, although they invited it upon themselves. Anyone standing in the way is going to be well and truly trashed and I include the Greens in this, this is the Empire striking back. Once the centre has well and truly coagulated around the Clintons, watch the policy objectives change subtly; anyone daring to raise a question will be mercilessly dealt with. By November any pretence that many of the issues Bernie managed to inject into the race will have fallen away into the dust behind the propaganda juggernaut.
The Trump circus may well allow the Republicans the excuse to do it for the country rather than their own needs, anyone that believes this is not getting the ground game. Trumps supporters have long scared the bejesus out of the Party, the left holds no such fear for the Democrats, we are after all, easy to bully.
This obvious manoeuvring is why I have not and will not trust another Clinton [or mainstream Democrat for that matter] in the White-House. They see this as a unification process, I see it as the end game to exclude the 99% permanently. These people are not for country no matter how big the flag pin they wear, no matter how violently they wave the plastic flags made in China, they are not with us, in their mind's eye they bloody own us, in fact we owe them. Atlas did indeed Shrug.
It seems to me that we are dealing with sociopaths, some speak with more erudite forked tongues than others.
We are all just a means to an end and our real needs mean nothing.
Just a thought.
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Politics is no longer about social wedge issues
The two parties have kept us divided and conquered by focusing political activity on social issues, which only distract from their real agenda. The "center" is where the two find agreement, and the center is always about the big banks and corporations, including the war industry.
It's time to reject the bullshit social issue divisions. Politics has to divide along economic lines, because the 0.1% are only consolidating their power under Hillary. The time for Right vs. Left is over. It's time for a new politics of Up vs Down. Bernie, and to a lesser extent Trump, have shown the way. We must see our enemies clearly, so we know what and whom we must fight.
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Indeed it's been a shell game for a long time now.
But I know where that pea is!
I've seen it! Just one more time and I'll pick the right shell...
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Everyone's a mark
Oddly enough, I just commented in your last essay about how the grifters themselves get conned.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
I agree that that the 0.% are consolidating their power under
Hillary, but we can look back and see how each president from Reagan on has gotten us to this point.
Wasn't he the one that started the tax cuts for the elites while removing the things that we could deduct from our taxes?
Interests on car loans, credit cards and other things that we can no longer deduct.
Clinton deregulated the banks as well as the other bills he passed that hurt the social programs.
He teed the ball up and Greenspan (ignored) the damage Clinton did until the global economy finally came crashing down.
Then Obama and congress bailed out the banks but did nothing to help the people that saw their homes foreclosed on or lost their pensions.
Holder took all the class action lawsuits and put them into one and then let the bank CEOs off.
Obama played his part with his bait and switch campaign and passed the heinous ACA and worked for 7 years on the TPP which gives away our national sovereignty over to the corporations.
And now Hillary is going consolidate all those actions and also finally give the banks what they have wanted since it was set up.
Privatizing social security.
You nailed it when you wrote they distracted and divided us on social issues that don't hurt the elite's pocket book, while working in the shadows to screw us.
How people aren't aware of this is mind boggling.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
That's the whole purpose of the wedge issue battles
I came over here with a repost of a diary I did at TOP about Clintonite corruption. In it I reprinted a segment of another diary I did just after the 2014 election. I'll repost it here, if you'll forgive me, because it keeps bearing repeating.
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The Romans used circuses and gladiators
we do it with elections.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Gladiators
The NFL game was cancelled tonight. (Wrong paint on the field?) It's starting to come undone.
That was hilarious when I saw that
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-- John Lennon
But Wait! There's More!
There was supposed to be some Old Timers game here in Los Angeles, but it got cancelled due to poor advance sales. So much for all the hype that Angelinos miss football.
The rat bastard who owns the Rams is fighting with the city over paying for the cops to keep order at his bacchanals. It would cost him $2 million a year. He already got the city to build him a new stadium, but we here know that for such people, too much is never enough.
No wonder the people I've met recently who live in St. Louis hate this guy, and don't give a damn about the Rams leaving. They now don't have to pay for his wet dream stadium with all the luxury boxes.
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
'The Century of the Self'
A BBC doc (YouTube, archive.org) on the invention of modern, psychology-based propaganda. Its interweave with corporations, intelligence and politics. Get people locked into preoccupation with their feelings and their self-image and you can lead them anywhere.
That's why when any actually meaningful to the nation policy breaks into the public discussion it immediately gets neutered into mere emotion.
They'll let us feel any damned thing we want 24/7/365, but action is always stymied.
Occupy, to the general public became about unruly threatening demonstrators (or cop brutality -- 'divide and rule' is a millenias-old staple) but you will see little or no exposition about the legitimacy of the things protested. For one example
The BBC show goes from whipping up war fever in the US for WW1, through the headline grabbing stunt of having a bunch of young society women light up 'Torches of Freedom' (cigarettes) to counter prejudice against women smoking, through coups in Central America, and Obama's first run for Pres.
I wonder how many women -- it must stand at tens of millions -- died and suffered because a tobacco exec wanted to widen his market.
Orwell: Where's the omelette?
Reagan was a tool, but
actually it was Kennedy that started the idea of tax relief for the rich by arguing and pushing for a reduction in the top marginal rate from 91% to 65%. The slide started in 1965 with a reduction to 70%, by 1971 the rate was down to his asked for 65%. It has gone down steadily since then. The rich always look out for the rich, whoever they may be, whatever else they may say, and which ever party affiliation they may claim.
And Reaganism Started Under Jimmy Carter
From Salon way back in February:
http://www.salon.com/2011/02/08/lind_reaganism_carter/
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
I Second This
Carter was president when two sharpsters stole Inland Steel through one of the first leveraged buyouts so they could claim for themselves the pension fund of thousands of Inland Steel retirees living on the south side of Chicago. Carter, to his shame, did nothing to prevent this, nor did he assist the retirees who in many cases lost everything they worked for all their lives.
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
And then there's the Carter Doctrine
regarding the Middle East and protecting American business opportunities over there. I admit, I didn't know that until reading about it, didn't remember it, but sure makes sense. I still maintain that the Repugs set the agenda, but I'm getting to where I no longer even can say that with a straight face. So many Dems did their part over the years to get us to where we are today. Carter also began some bank deregulation back in his day too, so all his nice talk about the oligarchy is just that - talk as he helped entrench it.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
The Kennedy tax package cut rates for all, but then
seriously increased what things would be included in income for the rich, while RR cut rates and then killed deductions that mostly benefitted the non-rich.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The golden prize
Pretty certain this is goal number one:
It's why we'll never see the transcripts of Hillary's Wall Street speeches.
Privatizing everything,
from social services to schools to Police, fire, EMS, electricity, water, toll roads
Even City Hall, State Legislatures and finally Congress and the Presidency.
What could possibly go wrong?
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
exactly
And with Trump helping $$Hillary create the penultimate version of 'the uniparty', it makes creating the united corporate/government 'entity' all that much easier.
I think it started under Nixon, with deregulation.
Every President after Nixon deregulated more and more.
Taxes were high under FDR, especially because of the war tax. Truman did not cut them. Neither did Eisenhower. JFK did. Reagan and his successors vitiated anti-trust laws. And so on.
In my opinion, we've had fewer than five fiscally liberal Presidents since 1789. It's hard to know whether those actually believed in it or whether they simply feared widespread uprisings. They were also all warriors, unfortunately. The last was LBJ.
Form a coalition with Republicans, leave liberals and
teabaggers--whom you consider equally bad--twisting in the wind. Never lose another election.
No Labels. An organization founded by a Bushite and peopled with lots and lots of Clintonites and some moderate Republicans, like Jon Huntsman. It's like the DLC, only even more "bipartisan."
I think you're old enough. We were warned.
The Dwight
Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!
Firesign Theater
Stop the War!
What? Surprised?
With her, it's never been about us. I don't know what the end game here is, I mean, I get the power and money and influence things. But we All gonna go when the planet say so!?! Wtf? Or as we say, wtfaaa. . ? They got a moon launch ready or something? A secret planet B? Or is it the last one to leave, don't bother with the lights?
Or are they actively courting end times thinking paradise awaits on the other side? Damn! I be confused.
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Sociopaths don't care about anything but themselves
Sociopaths have no empathy they only care about "winning", where winning can be anything. In the case of politicians its about winning power over others. That is all.
That's why it's "I'm With Her"
There's no promise that it's a two way street.
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Dimon, Blankfein, Kissinger, Albright, Mitchell (Andrea) and
others see it as a two-way street. Even Trump.
It's just not a two-way street for, you know, us.
Maybe this...
It looks like they think they have it all figured out. How great would it be if they build an underground palace somewhere in Oklahoma or another place where they have fracking-assured earthquakes? Unless they find a way to burn money to make food, I think they may have forgotten a few things. So, apparently they think they can fly forever or live in an underground bunker. I wonder how long they will be able to live with one another in a very confined space, even if it has all the luxuries?
What’s Inside the Most Tricked-Out Private Jumbo Jets
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/inside-the-most-opulent-private-jumbo-j...
Doomsday Lairs! Elite Bug-Out Underground Bunkers And Cities Prepared For Major Catastrophe - The Elite Will Survive, Will We?
http://allnewspipeline.com/Doomsday_Lairs_Underground_Bunkers_Cities.php
That's NOT my idea of life. Being underground forever and never
seeing the sun because we turned the Earth into a radioactive ball of death?
Nah, I think I'd rather not. I believe it was Nikita Kruschchev when talking about the next 'war' said that the living would envy the dead. I believe it.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Almost the Opposite of "The Time Machine"
Innit?
The rich retreat into the bowels of the earth while the poor are left to weather the storm.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Apocryphal.
Closest is Eccles 9:5.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
Had to look up
Eccles 9:5, and I *think* I get your point. Whether or not I do, thanks for sending me off on an exploration of the Preacher's words.
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
I always imagined
They'd build a biosphere to live in.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Because the last one worked out so well?
Personally, I'd love to seal a bunch of these people in Biosphere 2. Lack of oxygen, lack of food. Doesn't sound much different from what the rest of us will have.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
They think they'll somehow outlast Armageddon in their
spiffy palatial underground bunkers, and when it is finally safe to emerge they won't have to share the planet with the riffraff?
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We need to do what the Alaskans used to do to sociopaths
― Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door
according to farley mowat, the inuit (not what they called
themselves, actually) of northern manitoba/saskatchewan did not differentiate between criminal insanity and any other criminal behavior. anyone who would kill another person out of anger or envy or jealousy or greed was definitionally insane to a degree that made them an unacceptable risk to the remainder of the community -- given the very marginal nature of that community's existence. such a person had to be eliminated.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
In the absence of ice, send Cheney along on the hunting trip.
What about the Tea-GOP voters?
We are seeing the elites going over to Hillary, but what about the Tea-GOP voters? They have hated her for 25 years.
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
I think the GOP might just have found their "out" with
Trump, the tea republicans may well feel the chill of being ignored completely.
All the more reason to believe Trump is a plant.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Trump said Bill Clinton urged him to run. B.C. denied it,
leaving us to choose between the stories of two known liars.
Encouraged him,
was the way I saw it put. But yeah, if there's denying going on, then we know damned well we're right about it.
Actually, that makes it way easier to be less nervous about Trumpsky winning in November. Almost makes me want to vote for him.
Almost.
After fighting right wing politics all my life,
what possible reason would I want to unify with them? I can count on one hand even the moderate Republicans holding office I agreed with. We do not have the same goals, we do not agree on the purpose of government. I am talking everything from school board to President, maybe 5 of them that had a reasonable position on what government's purpose is, and some positive goal they believed government might achieve.
I gotta say, my only reason for giving a single shit if the US breaks into pieces, is that I might get stuck in the Republic of TexAss.
I still believe if we all stayed home, called in sick for a couple of weeks, did not spend a single cent, TPTB might get the hint.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The only reason to court Republicans
... is to pursue policies they might buy that your own base would not. Democratic Clinton supporters increasingly are looking like Chickens for Colonel Sanders.
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TPP and TTIP spring instantly to mind
Beware Grand Bargains
Obama was too feckless to pull it off. It wouldn't put it past Hillary and her backers.
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Oh they will specify maybe 23 Dems to vote against
them in the Senate and maybe 10 Republicans just to assuage their home State voters where needed.
People still don't get the Rotating Villain strategy
They think Democrats' intentions are good, but they always just miss winning these battles.
P.T. Barnum shakes his head from the grave.
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Indeed, and the awkward amendment strategy
we had to because , otherwise we would have got nothing at all.
DADT, DOMA, Stupak Pitts, Patriot Act, NAFTA, AUMF
etc etc etc
The F'ing ACA, for that matter
Heritage must be so proud.
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And the stage managed kerfuffle of the Stupak Pitts
Amendment and the [ab] use of women as a bargaining tool, again.
The Hyde Amendment passed in 1976 and has never been repealed.
In 1976, both the House and the Senate had Democratic majorities.
I see the Grand Bargain fiasco differently.
I have a fridge magnet made of a homey fabric, trimmed with eyelet. It looks cosy, until you read it. It says
Today's Menu Choices
Take it or Leave it
Similarly
The Grand Bargain Menu Choices
Cuts or Cuts
There was a choice Grand Bargain or sequester, also known as negotiated cuts or semi-across the board cuts.
If the politicians on the Grand Bargain Committee did not succeed in striking a Grand Bargain, athen the sequester cuts would automatically go into effect. Most likely, the sequester was the goal all along. With a Grand Bargain, the members of the Committee would have had to take responsibility for the cuts. The sequester was an automatic default, so no one had to take responsibility. But, either way, cuts were the only item on the menu for America.
Hhmmmm...
I had the very same thought cross my mind, as well....
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." - Howard Zinn
One reason to court indies and Republicans is winning elections.
Especially if you anticipate that lesser of two evils voting may not be enough save your bacon this time around.
Winning elections? Don't be
Winning elections? Don't be daft. The left has no desire to win elections, unless by accident. Just look at how they run.
No, no. On the fringe is where they like it, getting a few % of the vote and complaining about it for eternity.
We're going to see a right-populism rise because the left is too good for the people.
? Hillary is the one courting the right to win elections.
Hillary is not "the left."
I posted nothing about the left winning elections.
I'm just hoping I get full Canadian citizenship...
When they Annex Cascadia.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Amerexit?
To start a US strike-- will not happen
The Olympics are on TV!! I had not realized the extent of circuses before.
What we need, and will not happen is a Jubilee Day, all debts wiped clean. Then we could be free to be angry.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
I like the idea of staying home from work for a few weeks
And especially not buying anything except the necessities for living to get their attention that we don't like what they are doing to this country or where they are taking it. If enough people did that and stalled the economy, it would get their attention.
But this country is too divided for people to agree with that.
People cheered when OWS was brutally broken up and others jeered at the ideas of the tea party.
The tea party had no idea of what our government does or how it works, imo. Look at the signs during the health care debates
How could those people not know that is a government program?
I watched the movie No country for old men last night and t though that the people portrayed in that movie represents the type of people who voted for Bush and always vote republican, even though the republicans are the ones that work to dismantle our social networks.
God, gays and guns country
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
The tea party
had the same gripes with the PTB as OS did, and just like every movement they got astroturfed, baught off, and watered down till they we're no longer a threat to the power stracture. edit OW for OS.
Solidarity forever
They also, in retrospect,
were villified by the oligarchs' media, or MSM, until they were properly neutered and absorbed into proper party politics.
I will give the filthy rich this, they seem to be masters of stifling dissent.
Until, of course, they aren't.
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
I remember Obama making a joke about Medicare, not OASDI.
I don't remember any actual signs like that about either Medicare or Social Security during the ACA era.
Snopes tracked the Medicare comment to a column by Krugman--something supposedly said to a Republican Congressman Inglis. http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=49279
Krugman also did columns during the 2008 primary about bad Obama Boys and during the 2016 primary about bad Bernie Bros. He's a centrist tool and I don't trust him about anything.
All that said, telling government to keep its hands off Medicare during the ACA drama was not as nonsensical as it may seem. ACA did shift some $$ from Medicare to Obamacare.
Staying home
For years I have parlayed the idea of a gasoline boycott. Same concept, just drive 20% less for a month, and there would be a tremendous glut of gas on the market...just as there now is from the fracking boom/debacle here in the US. We have gas/oil/NG coming out of our politicians orifices...front and back.
The use of an economic boycott, i.e., just plain holding on to your purse strings holds tremendous power IMOP
How to drive 20% less
Call in sick every Friday?
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Or work at home once a week. Or walk to work or bike or
rollerblade or skateboard or take the bus or carpool. Heck, ride a horse or a llama! Be creative.
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Would take me a long time to walk 18 miles.
And my village has no stables.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
carpool, ride public transit,
carpool, ride public transit, don't take that un-necessary trip to the hardware store, or grocery store. Look through your junk drawers, or be creative with what you have in the fridge...It'll wait !! unless you're out of beer!!
The election's still a long way off.
Most people don't start thinking about the election until after Labor Day and some don't think about it until a week before. I suspect that when the realization sinks in that the Democrat is Hillary Clinton, Republican support for Trump will skyrocket. Some of the elites may indeed support her, but I cannot imagine much of the rank and file becoming Clinton Republicans.
The GOP rabid base represents about 25% of the voting
population, there will be words but watch the media closely even Fox. The media is not in the hands of the base,
I always correlate the hard core right to Bush 43's last
approval ratings. I remember them at 30% for a good while, but his last was only 22%. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bushs-final-approval-rating-22-percent/
And I bet some of them were lying, just not to give anyone the satisfaction.
That is why they invented
E-votIng machines.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
I think there will be a split in the professional ranks
Most of the 1% ers will go Clinton for economic reasons. Bet those professionals who remain in the GOP will split between Johnson and Clinton. The dope smoking Republicans will vote Johnson, The less well read who are hanging by their teeth economically will vote Trump big because.... for reasons that defy reason...they think he will help them in some way and then they can feel superior to whoever is the inferior of the day. A few won't vote.
When wealth rules, democracy dies.
Get down to it, we don't live in a democracy.
The system won't allow it and now the wealth inequality and the war OF terror permanent national state of emergency has strengthened the ruling elite's hold on us all. We can't win playing their game by their rules. Of course we're dealing with sociopaths, what else can explain decisions that kill children? Who can do that?
We have to change this political system imo or we'll just keep treading water, maybe.
When does your base say not no, but HELL NO?
*It is the Democratic Party base. I posed a dumb ass question.
GAWD.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
It always starts with a mild hell no, then it moves to
if you don't vote for us you are voting for THEM!!! even if you don't vote
We do not count
Hillary had 1/2 of the political spectrum left of the GOP. Now she is getting some Repubs to support her because they fear Trump. And Trump is getting Repubs not to vote for him and vote Libertarian. Libertarians are polling better than Greens.
To the degree that Hillary out polls Trump all over the map we are just background noise.
We need to make noise.
The political revolution continues
But, but . . . rank and file Republicans HATE Hillary.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
Part of the problem is "the left" is given to fragmentation
and arguing over minutiae and trivial differences instead of, y'know, fighting as a bloc. It also doesn't help that in America the vast majority of the voting populace is largely very conservative in practice, no matter how they respond to polls and surveys.
I could not agree with you more about the behavior of the left,
but disagree with you as to the populace in general.
I think that polls on issues reflect their views accurately and, if anything, under-report how liberal Americans are. They behave as they do because of the plutocrats and media and because they are not ready for armed revolution. We just saw what the plutocrats and media did to Sanders because he was a liberal. They are constantly doing the same to liberal ideas and they have for decades.
Why do you think Bernie was vilified from the second he entered
The primary race... Bernie has a message that could defragment the disjointed left... And nothing worried the political class more then a unified opposition.
The second Bernie bowed out...
1) the left went back to fragmenting itself
2) the political class went back to ignoring and dismissing progressives.
SAME AS IT EVER WAS
Orwell was an optimist
They figure, and have been figuring for a long time, that
"we" are already in their pockets, that where else are "we" gonna go, right?
And this pivot by the Clintonites shouldn't be too much of a surprise with the all-out display of All War All The Time at the DNC.
But I think they're nervous. There's a furious campaign on Twitter and elsewhere to paint Jill Stein as some kind of Putin mole, like Trump, but only serves to point up HRH HRC's hawkishness and willingness to start a new Cold War (complete with Red Scare redbaiting y'all!).
It would be funny if it weren't so fucking pathetic.
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-- John Lennon
Glass houses.
I do seem to recall that Bill Clinton himself visited Moscow during his Oxford student daze in 1969, when Russia was still very much a part of the U.S.S.R. - and that fact was used against him when he ran against former-CIA-director incumbent Prez Papa Bush in 1992.
For a trip down memory lane . . .
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1992/oct/09/usa.martinwalker
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
They are getting vicious with anyone that does not
completely toe the line or shows any form of resistance whatsoever
Clinton went full McCarthy against Bernie
... and barely got any criticism for it. Goes she figures it's OK to keep,up the smears. Donald Trump played right along, giving more evidence that he may be a Trojan Horse for the Clintons. Why shouldn't they Red-bait Stein too? It's not like the media are going to give them any pushback.
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Notice there's no talk of those secret speeches
Nope, nada, nothing. No one is asking about those secret speeches the Hillster gave to Wall Street. No demand for transcipts, no demand for tapes, nothing. Promises were made to be kept. Soon we'll all find out just how the oligarchy works.
The real SparkyGump has passed. It was an honor being your human.
We should start a campaign - did she promise to privatize SS?
I don't Twitter, but Social Security is what Wall St wants, and it seems the obvious explanation of their sudden move to her side.
And it certainly explains why she doesn't want to tell us what she said!
They are lining up for her
As yet another example I give you Thomas Friedman's Big Idea for Hillary from Naked Capitalism.
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