@ggersh Actually it is two words: "money" and "power". They go together where politicians are concerned.

her heinous and slick sold the party and country out
in no particular order.

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@dkmich

Bush bridged Clinton and Obama holding true to Neoliberal principals. This in-line regime of Presidents moved the economy from productive capitalism (shared growth with physical infrastructure) to financial capitalism (expansion of monetized authority perched atop institutional contraction) — sending money to the financial enclaves and sending jobs to emerging nations with cheaper labor. The ultimate goal is to benefit the corporations that profit-share with the enclaves. The remaining 99 percent are blanketed by the need for austerity, and the need to reduce their standard of living — so they can absorb and metabolize the losses that are flushed down by the enclaves.

If the American People had Human Rights, it could be tolerated better. But the Neoliberal sociopaths forgot to put those in their platform. Human rights, life freedom from hunger, affordable housing, health care on demand — not to be confused with civil rights.

I hoped one of these three end up caked in dirt.

@dkmich Bill was the clever assist guy who set up the play. Bush was the guy hanging around the basket who dunked it in after it was served up to him. And Obama was the ref who looked the other way when Bush, on the way to dunking it, elbowed the defender right in the eye hard enough to give him a concussion.

I hoped one of these three end up caked in dirt.

@k9disc

All they need do is repeat the assertion as if it were fact enough times and it becomes fact.

Interesting that they never look at the corollaries like Israel within the US or the US within other sovereign nations. By this thinking, the US is enemies with much of the world and we ought to be rolling the tanks on Israel.

in the social media description text of a piece of news that came across my FB feed.

It's actually a heading and subheading:

Robert Mueller Releases Information Showing Trump Campaign Tried to Collude With Russia

Sorry, Donald Trump, here’s more evidence your crew schemed with the enemy.

my response:

"With the enemy"? Are we at war with Russia?

Manafort's crimes were not treasonous. They were run of the mill political bullshit -- he lied about who his sponsors were in order to look squeaky clean -- that he was lobbying for Russia is no different than Podesta's brother -- the problem is he lied about it.

This is not about treason, it's about lobbying and political ethics.

We've got LOTS of well connected people "working with" and "lobbying for" Russia. Former President Clinton took $500,000 recently for a short speech. That is not a crime, nor should it be.

This "the Enemy" shit... It's completely concocted and manufactured. Russia is the target of the Establishment, that's why they're the enemy. It has nothing to do with Russian actions. It has to do with the desires of Big Corporate & the Oligarchs and their control over global politics.

The Enemy, Mother Jones, is Big Corporate & the Oligarchs, not Russia. You would think MoJo publication would know that.

@Mike Taylor

Note that I agree with your overall conceptual framework. But this bit here is very dangerous in my opinion:

a lot of new democratic voters joined the ranks, who were motivated mostly by the racial/ethnic identities of candidates, than the real debates having to do with economics, trade etc.

Yes, I get it that we are all being systemically oppressed by the plutocrats. That includes various identity groups. But it is also true that racism and bigotry are real things and in this nation, significant things. They too are a very significant debate that needs to be had.

The corporatists like to paint racial and economic justice as mutually exclusive. They do so for obvious reasons. I don't share that opinion.

The democratic party has suffered a massive dumbing down since 2008, when a lot of new democratic voters joined the ranks, who were motivated mostly by the racial/ethnic identities of candidates, than the real debates having to do with economics, trade etc. Many don't understand the difference between right and left policies (i.e. mandated private health insurance, charter schools, government surveillance etc.).
Intelligent debate about economic policy, trade policy etc. is not even possible now. Racial/ethnic/gender identities of candidates have become more important than issues relating to the steering of our overall ship of state.
As long as democratic voters continue to put their own political identities ahead of what the oligarchs are doing to all constituencies, the more elections democrats will lose, and deservedly so.

@jim p  
Great turn of phrase. You have a way with words.

People are Emmanuel Goldsteining like there's no tomorrow. And you can't talk a lick of sense. It's like some kind of religion they've got going.

in some instances. I talk to very intelligent people who are so intent on treating Trump as the ultimate existential threat they put themselves into full out panic (he's A threat; that we had the choice of him or Her is the much greater threat from now until that kind of thing doesn't happen).
People are Emmanuel Goldsteining like there's no tomorrow. And you can't talk a lick of sense. It's like some kind of religion they've got going.
Russia Derangement Syndrome.

@snoopydawg
Was also called a traitor and told:

The Russians have infiltrated your brain. Watch out!

I'd rather have that, than Henry fucking Kissinger and the deep state. Ugh.

Not here, of course, and not at TOP, because I don't go there anymore.

they think that Hillary was the only person that had the right to campaign for the presidency. Would they feel this same way if it had been Biden instead who ran against her?
And I'm still seeing people blaming anyone who didn't vote for as the reason Trump is president.
This means that they think that people had the responsibility to vote for her and only her because it was Trump that she was running against.
As I've stated before, she is the only candidate in history that thought that all she needed to do was show up at the convention and be crowned Ms. Candidate! So do her supporters.