"This time it's gonna be different!"
The REAL VIPs in this world have been shut out of the conversation:
The experts, like Krugman and the like, who use real data, proven theories, and logic. It doesn't matter WHAT they are expert in: economics, science, ecology, human processes, education....they've been pushed aside by greed, indifference to results, and magical thinking. By gamblers, con men and cheats.
The 99%, who create and drive the REAL economy.
The true public servants, those not bought and owned by Corporations or banksters.
The Gamblers infest government policy at home and abroad. They've destroyed our foreign relations with all other nations. They've destroyed economies on all scale: local, state, national, international. They've destroyed democracy because the only way they can win is by Fascism. And Winning is the only thing--but their idea of winning is a Win-Lose scenario. They can't tolerate the idea that all parties in a deal could come out ahead...because that wouldn't be WINNING, you see. Not in their twisted frame of reference.
And we the People have to fight back, before they destroy the entire human race and the ecology that keeps us alive. Preferably without torches and pitchforks, but when all else fails, as it is....there may not be any alternative.
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