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(6,829 posts)I prefer aspiring to the higher principals they taught me our country was based on, back in my 1960 to 1972 public school days.
We have become everything they taught us was bad about communist Russia in those times. Who knew that 40 years later we would allow our country to take the form of communist Russia, totalitarian police state wise.
Sure, they aren't using this infrastructure in earnest, YET, but why the hell do they keep building it?
They also taught us that it's illegal for real good reasons to never use the military against it's own citizens. Boy has that changed.
I've never wavered in my revulsion to all the extra constitutional stuff the Obama admin has done not the least of which is to carry on with the Unconstitutional GWB train wreck of democracy policies.
I am repelled by the if Obama violated the Constitution it's OK because he's one of us memes.
Larry Summers? WTF? Why should I like that stupid plutocratic weasel just because Obama seems to? At least Elizabeth Warren and Alan Grayson are still fighting for progressive values in earnest.
-jim