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VOTE STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC AT ALL LEVELS,
Our future depends on it. Get out and vote. Ignore the nasty ads, that's what I use my Mute button for.
"Communistic"?? ???
Do people know what communism is actually about? Seems not, for most.
BLUTO: "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? HELL NO!!"
OTTER: "Germans?"
BOONE: "Forget it; he's rolling..."
That way democrats will never have to be held accountable for their miss deeds.
Although some prefer to say USSR under Stalin was totalitarian oligarchy, it is described as state capitalism -- same as provater capitalims except the dictators are government oligarchs instead of corporate opligarchs, and both are stages of fascism.
Stalin liked to lie and say it was communistic for propaganda purposes (much as Hitler called the Nazis socialists), and the US propagandists went along in demonizing both the USSR and socialism/commu nism.
Communism, and the earlier stage of socialism, is actually economic democracy where the workers decide how to work, what to make, and what to do with the fruits of their labor (profits), and that has not yet existed on a large national scale (and the fascist empires, when they see it beginning to work, make war and destroy it so it won't set a good example).
Real nation and world-wide socialism and communism is the system of the future (although perhaps not very far away), much as democracy was in the feudal period (although that was never fully realized either because it never determined a nations economy, and only political democracy is useless if an oligarchy or despot controls the economy and wealth, at which point political democracy becomes a sham).
Voting for Democrats is ALSO against your own interests, and you can vote for others or write in a candidate.
However, I hope that some of the states are re-drawn, or the Constitution re-written as far as the Senate and Electoral College rules go, because as it is right now, some very low-population mining states rule the rest of the country, deciding which bills get to the Senate floor, etc. In British history, there were districts that had no population but a major representative, and high-population areas with less representation. At a certain point everything had to be re-drawn. It just makes sense; there is no way to have a real country otherwise. And for one state to consciously pollute another and get away with it because of commerce laws is no government at all.
Voting for a 'lesser' is just a mind game which gives away any power of the people in the polling booth they might otherwise have. It is, in reality, not a lesser evil, to be stabbed to death rather than shot.
How much are the tax payers being forced to pay for Obama's re-election? ie Acorn/Solyndra/ Gm/Fanny May Freddi Mac/AIG ... ANY corporation that received a bail out should not be permitted a single dime in contributions - it is simply a vicious cycle where the tax payers are robbed to support companies that deserve to fail - but those companies buy politicians (with tax payer monies) forcing the tax payers to bail them out ...
The ultimate no wind scenario for The forgotten man - the tax payer
Best quote of the day!
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But here's a question for you. Should defense contractors, which are bailed out on every contract by the very nature of their cost plus contracts, be permitted to fund campaigns, lobbying or "independent expenditures"? Because they can and do spend taxpayer dollars doing that now.
There are millionaire Blacks in America. Now is the time for them to step up. If they don't they should be ready for another era of Jim Crow.
But you are right about the impact a Romney win would make on our American institutions.
At that point I predict that we will see corporations pouring tens of millions of anonymous dollars into Super PACs from Karl Rove's Crossroads to the US Chamber of Crime and Slavery.
But meanwhile he has done a very, very useful thing in exposing a few of the early leaders in the race to destroy America. AlerNet, The Nation and several other of the actual liberal media (as opposed to the economically conservative and occasionally socially moderate mainstream media)have been for months exposing a few of the backroom funders here and several more there of the bank-rollers that push the 1%, its all about me and not at all about anyone else, agenda. These guys and the hundred or so guys and gals who attend the Koch brothers' retreats need to be exposed for their blatant bribery and selfish destruction of American prosperity and productivity.
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