This Presidential Race Should Never Have Been This Close MATT TAIBBI
...The mere fact that Mitt Romney is even within striking distance of winning this election is an incredible testament to two things: a) the rank incompetence of the Democratic Party, which would have this and every other election for the next half century sewn up if they were a little less money-hungry and tried just a little harder to represent their ostensible constituents, and b) the power of our propaganda machine, which has conditioned all of us to accept the idea that the American population, ideologically speaking, is naturally split down the middle, whereas the real fault lines are a lot closer to the 99-1 ratio the Occupy movement has been talking about since last year.
Think about it. Four years ago, we had an economic crash that wiped out somewhere between a quarter to 40% of the world's wealth, depending on whom you believe. The crash was caused by an utterly disgusting and irresponsible class of Wall Street paper-pushers who loaded the world up with deadly leverage in pursuit of their own bonuses, then ran screaming to the government for a handout (and got it) the instant it all went south.
These people represent everything that ordinarily repels the American voter. They mostly come from privileged backgrounds. Few of them have ever worked with their hands, or done anything like hard work. They not only don't oppose the offshoring of American manufacturing jobs, they enthusiastically support it, financing the construction of new factories in places like China and India. They've relentlessly lobbied the government to give themselves tax holidays and shelters, and have succeeded at turning the graduated income tax idea on its head by getting the IRS to accept a sprawling buffet of absurd semantic precepts, like the notions that "capital gains" and "carried interest" are somehow not the same as "income."
The people in this group inevitably support every war that America has even the slimmest chance of involving itself in, but neither they nor their children ever fight in these conflicts. They are largely irreligious and incidentally they do massive amounts of drugs, from cocaine on down, but almost never suffer any kind of criminal penalty for their behavior.
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msongs
(67,395 posts)djean111
(14,255 posts)in order to make stealing the election more plausible, and/or to generate more money for the media.
Second - my sister and I are liberal Dems. Her husband is a republican, he served in the Air Force, flying helicopters during Vietnam, retired from the A. F., and went on to work for the Post Office and retired from the Post Office.
He loved Bush.
She tries to tell him that the republicans consider him a leech, but he won't listen. She tries to tell him that if Romney wins, his Post Office pension may disappear. He says, oh, no - they promised.
She told him how it will affect their taxes if the mortgage interest deduction is done away with. He says oh, no, Romney wouldn't do that.
She explained what would happen to them if the ACA is done away with and how their vouchers wouldn't be worth spit because she has had cancer and he has a heart condition. He doesn't believe it. A $6000 voucher wouldn't even cover 10 months of his postal carriers insurance premium.
He listens to Faux and Rush and all I can think is that his brain is wired differently and there is no point in even trying to talk to him.
But people like this (and mountains of money) are why the race seems close.
midnight
(26,624 posts)I live in a Red district... Very few of his signs here...
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Rove puts Goebbels to shame.
there's no way it should be this close, considering that the Rmoney team wants to destroy SS and Medicare/Medicaid.
SILVER__FOX52
(535 posts)never been spoken!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cbrer
(1,831 posts)To think about how many Americans have been duped about war, torture, Constitutional abrogation, economics, and class warfare, is stupefying to say the least!
