Reply #43: Sure, get huffy and puffy if you want but it isn't going to change reality

[MadHound]

And that reality is that there is very little difference between Dems and 'Pugs, hasn't been for the past fifteen years, since both are beholden to the same corporate masters, who interests they put above and beyond the rest of us. You don't have to go any further than Clinton, the great "liberal" hope of the ninties, whose record includes such atrocities as NAFTA, the '96 Telecom Act, welfare "reform" among others.

Then we can look at Gore, whose loyalty to the boys at BP Oil cost him nearly 600,000 votes in Florida alone(so you can stop mindlessly repeating the Nader meme, OK). A man who, though he was served up the facts of the Florida votescam on a platter, allowed his handlers make all the decisions, and thus wound up not only losing, but giving us Bushco.

Then there are all those Dems up on the Hill. You know them, the ones who overwhelmingly voted for such obscenities as the IWR and the Patriot Act, along with other corporate friendly actions as the Bankruptcy Bill and the Prescription Drug Bill.

Sorry, but I am not going to willingly ignore what is happening in this party and this country out of blind party loyalty. Yes, there are still a few, very few, Democrats that look out for the ordinary person, who are still old school Dems. But those are becoming ever scarcer, and their place is being taken by New Democrats, that abberative group who thinks that the robber baron is always right, and unbridled capitalism is always good.

I'm looking for real change in this country, not some damn mummers' play of good cop/bad cop. While both sides of the two party/same corporate master system of government continue to distract the masses with their nominally bipartisan rhetoric, those who are the master of both parties continue to divide up the spoils of America, and we the people are left with nothing.

It is time for people like you to wake up and smell the coffee. Millionaires with a D behind their name have as much in common, and as much concern for the ordinary person as millionaires with an R behind their name, ie not one damn iota. Gee, Kerry really moaned and groaned about the tax cut he got on the campaign trail, but did he put his money where his mouth was, and donate that windfall to some charity or disadvantaged person? Hell no, he did what every good moneyed person did with it, investment or an offshore bank.

We're in a class war friend, and we are fucking losing. And the main reason why we're losing is because the working class has allowed itself to be distracted and dazzled by this mummers' play that is a bipartisan effort. It is time that you and others wake up and see what is going on in the world. We the people are being bipartisanly screwed, and even more sad, many of us are so dazzled and deluded by the show being put on that we are willingly participating in our own destruction. It is time to wake up and put and end to the madness. I would suggest that the first step you take is to stop voting for candidates who take corporate lucre. The next step is to push for across the board publicly financed elections, on both the state and national level. It is only when get corporate money out of politics that we will see real change. Until then all we will see is dazzle and diversion, while corporate America robs us blind, with the willing help of both Republicans and Democrats.