Lattes and lunchbuckets. Stop the artificial divisions. It's the corporatocracy, stupid.

[nichomachus]

We've reached a new level of insanity with the "lunch-bucket Democrats" and "latte-sipping Democrats" wedge. This really needs to stop.

We are all in this together -- and I'm not just talking about Democrats.

All of the wedge issues come from the same place, the corporatists who are destroying the country for their own profit. To do this, they need to keep us -- the bottom 90 percent of the country -- from realizing that we are all in this together.

It's not about

Latte vs Lunchbuckets
Liberal vs Conservative
Gay vs Straight
Christmas vs non-Christmas
Christians vs everyone else
Black vs White
Soccer moms vs Single women
Blue-collar vs White Collar

and, believe it or not, it's not even about Republican vs. Democrat.

It's about one thing only -- Corporations against the rest of us.

The corporations are getting rich, destroying the middle class, polluting the environment, destroying the American dream, and turning us into a feudal society -- and laughing all the way to the bank.

The only way they can do this is to keep the people divided, because if we come together and realize what they're doing, we will rise up and put a stop to it.

So, it's necessary for them to keep us divided. To do this they create wedge issues. Then, they find "useful idiots" to push the issues, (e.g. O'Reilly and his "War on Christmas"), and the corporate media to spread the propaganda 24/7.

Our sin is that we buy into it.

Christians breathe the same polluted air as anyone else. Gays are as affected by the lack of access to health care as are straight people. Liberals and conservatives are watching their dollars shrink to the level of the peso. Soccer moms and single women are both putting 30 percent of their paycheck into the gas tanks of their cars. Everyone is watching the value of their home slide into the cellar.

We all have a common interest, but it's only the wedges that keep us from doing anything about it.

You need look no further than DU and the time, energy, and words that have been expended on fighting about which candidate is worse. (Unfortunately, there has been little time and effort spent on which candidate is better.) Even here, we've bought into the wedge mentality.

As long as we continue to buy into this, the corporations win -- and our way of life is slipping through our fingers. We need to realize that we are all in this together -- and out job should be to educate others that we are all in this together. We will not win by playing the wedge game. In fact, that is the exact way to lose.

[Fresh_Start]

1. sadly all we have left are corportist supporting candidates

I miss Edwards the only one willing to challenge the strangehold of corporations on life in America

[nichomachus]

5. Agreed. So we need to do the best we can

We need to do the best we can with what we have.

But we also need a grass-roots effort to bring people together, rather than continue the divisions designed to drive us apart.

I'm trying as best I can, but it's really really hard. These wedges are jammed in so tight, but if we don't get them out, we die.

[papau]

2. Corporations against the rest of us" - add in most of the uber rich and I agree

[mac2]

3. Right about the RWers

[nichomachus]

4. Consider them added n/t

[Cosmocat]

6. For the love of christ ...

almost two decades now of the Limbaughs of the world making good money doing their job of dividing the country for the sake of corporatists, and me as one of them evil liberals having to deal with republicans falling for this crape ... NOW it freakin gets inserted into the democratic primary ???

I would say that it pisses me off to no end, but I already was pissed off to no end with it ...

[thoughtcrime1984]

7. Yep, divisions within the Party, a sure way to RepubliCON victory, enhanced by the MSM. nt

[bellasgrams]

11. Well, if BO gets in it will be like the repbs. after all he adores

Reagan and Lieberman is his mentor so what's the diff? All we need as a country is another Reagan to finish us off.

[DangerousRhythm]

8. Truth...

and recommended. :thumbsup:

[bellasgrams]

9. I know it is fashionable to blast corporations, but fact is they're

the ones that employ the most people. My husband worked in a factory for a large corp. he made good wages, and thou he's gone I still receive his benefits. Better insurance than I could possibly buy. I worked for a large utility, decent wages, good benefits. He was UAW I was IBEW. We didn't get rich but made a decent living. Without the large companies and their unions we couldn't have done it. There's no way I can lump all corporations together and say they're bad.

[nichomachus]

13. And that, of course, is part of the problem

We have been so conditioned to defend the corporations that it's hard to make any inroads in convincing people that they are against us.

[bellasgrams]

14. Well they certainly havn't been against their employees

you must not have had a good union job.

[uponit7771]

10. Obama is less of a corporatist than Hillary, why can't people see this?

[bellasgrams]

12. Pleas explain how you come up with this.

[depakid]

15. Trouble is, all 3 candidates pander to the corporatocracy

and all their coffers are full of dirty corporate money.

As Obama says (and as we already know with Clinton & McCain) they'll all have seats at the policy table-

as well as votes that outweigh those of the public interest.