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Phred42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 11:25 AM
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DLC and Neocons BOTH represent Corporations
It's a Damn Farce.

If elected, Clinton and Obama may throw "We The People" a Bone now and again but the Corporatists own it all now. Democracy will not survive through to 2012 assuming that it's actually alive right now.

The Corporations, Courts and 'leadership' of the two parties are choosing our Presidents and controlling almost everything and have been for some time. Most simply didn't notice or refused to believe it.

Ever watched a large fly wheel spinning?

Switch the power off and the thing still spins. It still appears to be running. Unless the guy that cuts power tells you he did it you won't even notice. The speed of a very large fly wheel will slow so gradually that it is imperceptible at first. If you walk away and come back in four years to check it you may not even notice that it's spinning slower because you've forgotten what it looked like when it was powered up. And if you've never seen a flywheel spinning before how would you know that it's actually turned off and winding down? All you know is that someone told you that these things spin and there it is, you see it spinning - hurray, it's working! But it's not. It just appears to be working because you either don't know what it looks like when it is actually working, or, you have been too lazy to keep track and have forgotten, or, you have an interest in it not working. So you don't tell anyone that it is not working and in fact tell people that it IS actually working just fine because you don't want them to turn on the power again. So you do everything you can to prevent anyone from seeing the switch. And every time someone says "Hey, this thing isn't spinning as fast as it used to" you come back back louder and say "that guy's crazy, of course it's working" and you do everything you can to destroy anyone that suggests that it's not working.

It's not working. You decide when the power was cut. We just need to find the switch and flip it.
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 11:27 AM
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1. True to a point but Al Gore would have been different than Bush
differences still exist...
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Phred42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 12:02 PM
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5. Ture - But he never made it to the WH did he?
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 11:32 AM
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2. If you think that centerist Dems are the same thing as Neocons, then you need a reality check. NT
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Phred42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 12:36 PM
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7. Was refering to the Oligarchy -
The 'Centrist' Dems today would have called themselves Moderate Republicans 40 years ago.

“Give me control of a nation’s money, and I care not who writes it’s laws…” Meyer Armschel Rothschild 1790
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 11:36 AM
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3. Oprah is a corporation as well nt
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Fabio Donating Member (929 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 11:43 AM
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4. Technically, NeoCons are not "corporatists"
I am not defending the idealogy one bit, but the history of the neo-conservative moment is not anchored in alliance with corporations --- Israel, yes, but not fortune 500s. In the last ten+ years, the neo-cons have been used quite capably by folks like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld to enact a corporate friendly agenda wearing a different hat.
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 12:16 PM
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6. To a large degree this is true....
..when it comes to some very major issues. On others such as abortion, civil rights, and supreme court appointments - I'd rather have a damn DLCer than a Repig - but they most certainly are too too much alike when it comes to general policy - corporatists.
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Phred42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 12:38 PM
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8.  Meyer Armschel Rothschild 1790
“Give me control of a nation’s money, and I care not who writes it’s laws…” Meyer Armschel Rothschild 1790
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