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They're
Both Republicrats
July 12, 2001
by
Norbert Radtke
I do appreciate and long for anything with even a slightly
leftward slant, and this website is a welcome oasis in the
desert of Corporate Media. But the greatest issues that face
us is not an issue of Right vs. Left or Democrats are better
than Republicans. Frankly, both are Republicrats -- a weird
push-me-pull-you creature that only pretends to be two separate
beings.
What we have is a two-faced one party system. The real divide
in this country is vertical -- between the haves and the have-nots.
Both parties sold us down the river with all this "Free Trade"
crap. The Democrat president (as distinguished from the Democratic
president.) was the one who presided over the signing of NAFTA,
the Uruguay Round of the GATT negotiations, and the creation
of the WTO. I was never asked whether I wanted these or whether
I approve. In fact, the signatories went to extraordinary
lengths to avoid any public discussion. And the Corporate
Media only reported what the corporations wanted Wee, the
Sheeple to know about it. "Four legs good! Protectionism
bad! Free-trade good! Two legs bad!"
All of the principles that the Democratic Party once stood
for, like Union membership, worker safety, minimum wage laws,
environmental protection, the right to local control of government
procurement, the sovereignty of the United States in making
policy with regards to these issues, have been sacrificed
at the altar of Globalism. I have seen the results for too
many years now to believe any Market Fundamentalist any more.
And it is a fanaticism just like any other fundamentalism.
And it is just as dependent on blind faith.
When laws passed by governments within the United States
can be overturned by the WTO's "Star Chamber" tribunal as
unfair restraint of trade, we have turned over the keys to
the US government to the Transnational Corporations. This
is not American or Democratic. And corporations see their
employees as inefficiencies to be out-sourced or down-sized.
They have no loyalty to anyone, save the investor class that
holds the securities.
Corporate welfare dwarfs the social welfare budget by several
orders of magnitude. They pit one community against the other
to bid down the taxes and get favorable treatment to avoid
having a facility moved overseas or to have a new facility
built. Guess who pays? When I see or hear of a Democrat that
speaks to these issues and does not kow-tow to the investor
class I may return to the party.
Until that day comes, I have sworn to vote for no Republicrat
ever again! I do make a point of voting in
every election and I will continue to do so. I feel that if
you don't participate, you have no right to complain.
I do hope that some of the Party members, and/or lobbyists
are monitoring this site. My message to them is that they
had better take better care of the Joneses than the Dow Jones.
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