Reply #80: Ozy, did you catch this post over in GD:Presidency? Interesting take by Matt Taibbi [View All]

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x530468

Looks like his Griftopia might be a good read...Amazon reviews have been an entertaining read

snip from the linked DU thread>

"Voters who throw their emotional weight into elections they know deep down inside won't produce real change in their lives are also indulging in a kind of fantasy. That's why voters still dream of politicians whose primary goal is to effectively govern and maintain a thriving first world society with great international ambitions. What voters don't realize, or don't want to realize, is that that dream was abandoned long ago by this country's leaders, who know the more prosaic reality and are looking beyond the fantasy, into the future, at an America plummeted into third world status.

"These leaders are like the drug lords who ruled American's ghettos in the crack age, men (and some women) interested in just two things: staying in power, and hoovering up enough of what's left of the cash on their blocks to drive around in an Escalade or a 633i for however long they have left. Our leaders know we're turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what's happened.