Economic Populist: The Radical Populist Case for Voting for Obama{+} | 13 comments (13 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Let's look at American democracy the way it's suppose to work ... a body with 2 hearts, one pumping in favor of the wealthy/corporations, the other pumping in the opposite direction for the workers and the less well off. Only one pump works at any time. the one in the WH. But today the pump which is suppose to be pumping for us (the Dems) is really like the valves in your veins; they don't pump in the other direction, they make sure that there's no backflow after the Repubs are voted out of office. Translation: The current system needs to be replaced before we're all dead.

They tried to assimilate me. They failed.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sat Nov 3rd, 2012 at 07:41:12 AM EST
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Its supposed to work that way?

Is that supposed to as in "was designed to", or supposed to as in, "it would be nice"?

I reckon it was a money dominated Republic since its founding. Its "supposed to" screw the worker, it was just that with the expansion of the franchise, old Franklin Delano sorted out a way to rig the system to work against its original design.

What we are doing now that is going against the original design is the Empire. We were designed by merchants and landowners to be a property-dominated Republic, not a property-dominated Empire. They well knew the way that the pursuit of Empire would lead to a government that infringed on the rights of property, and they were agin it.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Nov 3rd, 2012 at 09:59:08 AM EST
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OK, so I'm either an idealist (very possible) or all I'm saying is that the current system simply doesn't work. Kind of like a blown engine ... somewhere along the way you have to accept the fact that you ran the engine out of oil, it's a huge fused block of metal, it will never function again as is, and wishing won't change that. Example courtesy of my ex-wife less than 3 months after we were divorced decades ago ... I just love that story.

Time to go grocery shopping.

They tried to assimilate me. They failed.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sat Nov 3rd, 2012 at 10:37:38 AM EST
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What its not supposed to be is to work so that an aristocracy can use the system to secure their position against threats to their inherited wealth.

Which is how it works now, with a strong corporatist wing in each of two potential governing parties and with the establishment of a new corporatist aristocracy.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Nov 3rd, 2012 at 12:26:19 PM EST
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Economic Populist: The Radical Populist Case for Voting for Obama{+} | 13 comments (13 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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