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(32,139 posts)Mass spying on Americans? Both parties support it.
Handing the internet to corporations? Both parties support it.
Austerity for the masses? Both parties support it.
Cutting social safety nets? Both parties support it.
Corporatists in the cabinet? Both parties support it.
Tolling our interstate highways? Both parties support it.
Corporate education policy? Both parties support it.
Bank bailouts? Both parties support it.
Ignoring the trillions stashed overseas? Both parties support it.
Trans-Pacific Job/Wage Killing Secret Agreement? Both parties support it.
Drilling and fracking? Both parties support it.
Wars on medical marijuana instead of corrupt banks?
Deregulation of the food industry? Both parties support it.
GMO's? Both parties support it.
Militarized police and assaults on protesters? Both parties support it.
Indefinite detention? Both parties support it.
Drone wars and kill lists? Both parties support it.
Targeting of journalists and whistleblowers? Both parties support it.
Private prisons replacing public prisons? Both parties support it.
Unions? Both parties view them with contempt.
On the major issues, this remains a Third Way, predatory presidency. On health care, the ACA still guarantees massive profits to insurance company middlemen, and the president just opened a major loophole that will shift costs from insurers to patients. On climate change, the president continues to support drilling, fracking, and the most environmentally predatory "free trade" agreement in the nation's history. And on economic policy, the forthcoming "trade agreements" will destroy jobs and lower wages for over 90 percent of employed Americans.
No, the chocolate ration has not been increased.