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they are told.
Sound harsh? Tough shit. Its nothing compared to the country these people are creating for the rest of us. Im talking about those who ship American factories overseas by the tens of thousands to exploit cheep labor in the third world and shrink the middle class in their own country. They should be in prison for the horrible conditions they force upon those working in places like Columbia and Bangladesh, all while rationalizing their criminal greed. They should be tried and imprisoned for what theyve done to our working and middle classes. And they should have to forfeit their profits to feed and house those they have stolen from.
They are willing to start wars based on lies for bigger profits.They buy our politicians like others buy appliances. The massive spying is not about terrorists, its about money. With Iraq and Afghanistan wars ending the military-industrial complex needs to be fed. Were talking hundreds of billions a year, spread out between the federal, states and local governments. Drones to spy on us, from the type that can stay in the air for months spying on entire cities, to the insect size drones that that can entire our houses undetected. From the license plate readers on cop cars that track drivers movements and store the data forever; to the massive collection of all our electronic communications. Big Brother really is here and its going to get progressively worse every year until we rein this in. The technology will come and cant be stopped, the only thing that can stop this is for the citizens to say, enough! and demand the laws change.
Theyve bought our democracy/republic and no one should be okay with that. We need a government that actually works for us and not just those with deep pockets. Its time for public funding of campaigns, before its too late.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Spot on.
K&R
20score
(4,769 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)and public funding of campaigns? Exceedingly unlikely.
k&r even if I do think you're too optimistic.
20score
(4,769 posts)He just knew the end was coming for us, and he was pretty damn smart.
On a different note, you are rocking DU! My best to you!
Lunacee_2013
(529 posts)As soon as I feel like we can fix things I see a story on the news about someone with a great amount of power abusing that power and hurting others.
Also, I <3 Vonnegut. He's one of my favorite writers.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)sgtbenobo
(327 posts).... Go Mother-Fucker-Go! I would bake you a cake if I had an oven.
20score you are my new role model.
Carry Totally-and-completely-the-fuck-on.
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(4,769 posts)Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)Why should the media make a killing every campaign season? They have done it long enough. The public owns the airwaves, we should just require free time for elections as a condition of licensing.
That's for starters.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)The best solution...that would take the money out of politics because they would not need all those campaign contributions and if they took money from them it would be a bribe clear an simple.
But face it, because the media makes big bucks off of it, the more contentious the better for them...it encourages bad behavior.
20score
(4,769 posts)the money is out of politics. Media is toward the top of that list.
I agree we need to fix the media, but the FCC and congress will not act in our interests until media corporations can't fund their elections. (And give the FCC board jobs a week after they leave the board.)
ProSense
(116,464 posts)they are told.
Sound harsh? Tough shit. Its nothing compared to the country these people are creating for the rest of us. Im talking about those who ship American factories overseas by the tens of thousands to exploit cheep labor in the third world and shrink the middle class in their own country. They should be in prison for the horrible conditions they force upon those working in places like Columbia and Bangladesh, all while rationalizing their criminal greed. They should be tried and imprisoned for what theyve done to our working and middle classes. And they should have to forfeit their profits to feed and house those they have stolen from.
...they're really clever at getting people to jump on their bandwagon: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023242133#post22
20score
(4,769 posts)As for the change of heart with some on the right, makes me ill. Just like those on the left who have changed their position. It's obvious hypocrisy with both sides. I respect only those who respect reality and their own ideals.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)FYI
20score
(4,769 posts)I was trying to be succinct.
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99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
lumpy
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20score
(4,769 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)instead of the steady diet of corporate propaganda horseshit we are fed.
It's like having someone hand you a fresh salad and entree after so many weeks of expired pink slime.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
walkerbait41
(302 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Prior to the last Presidential election people finally seemed to have had it with the corpocracy. Anger from the middle to as far left as you can go before turning right. With the current, unbelievable, attack on our rights I think so much is so far gone that we're too disjointed to fight with results.
The war on women has spread to every nook and cranny in the country. If anyone stuck an object in a woman's vagina without her consent it would be called rape. But the State has made it law if a woman wants to control her body.
State Constitutional bans on marriage equality have passed or in the works.
Religion and religious beliefs, fairy tales, are being taught as fact in public schools.
Gun laws (or lack thereof) have allowed for people to carry weapons in bars ,on school property.
The list is endless. Frightening. Unreal. And almost all aimed at controlling the populace for corporations to gain income. Those "persons" that follow a law of their own.
And as you said, 20Score, the end of this insanity will only be possible if we start with election reform.
Wendy Davis and Elizabeth Warren seem to be the only elected officials with backbone anymore
20score
(4,769 posts)And thank you!
marym625
(17,997 posts)Not like those 2 women. And I will fight you on this. I will win too! I have god on my side and none of that stuff you refer to as "science"
I crack me up.
20score
(4,769 posts)(Made me laugh out loud. Thanks.)
marym625
(17,997 posts)Duckwraps
(206 posts)and say what you really mean.
Maximumnegro
(1,134 posts)suede1
(892 posts)Rant on 20score!
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Evil motherfuckers, all of them. Fuck their greed, and fuck all those fucking yachts, fucking vacation homes, fucking jewelry, and fucking private jets they fucking bought with the fucking blood of workers and innocent people all over the fucking world.
Fuck them.
johnnyreb
(915 posts)wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)Response to 20score (Original post)
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(4,769 posts)this post.
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(4,769 posts)I apologize.
I may hate what those women did, but it doesn't excuse what I said. So, sorry.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)Again, thank you for being YOU! Proud to call you my friend.
- duppers
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(4,769 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Should be said again and again and again