The Sole Remaining Stupidpower in the World

[Iwillnevergiveup]

by David Michael Green

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"America is a thing which is painful to watch. So many great achievements, so much unprecedented accompishment in our history now being unraveled before our very eyes by an unending parade of the worst thieves and the basest liars. Of course, such predators will always exist in any given society. But why do they get so much help from their victims?"

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http://www.regressiveantidote.net/

[Iwillnevergiveup]

1. Dems & Pubs are both to blame

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"What I do know is that we’ve spent the last generation or so hell-bent to self-destruct. And what I do know is that the deeper we get into our self-inflicted pit of national devastation, the more – not less – we turn to the same ideas, brought to us by the same discredited monsters, and inquire, “Thank you sir, may I have another?” The tea party troglodytes are only the most recent manifestation of that peculiar American addiction to global and self-destruction. After McCarthy we went for Nixon. After Nixon we went for Reagan. After Reagan we stooped so low we put the Caligula Kid in the White House. Twice. That little dry-drunk planetary-scale disaster of rampant personal insecurity spent almost the entirety of his last term in office with job approval ratings down around twenty-five or thirty percent. But since he didn’t commit the grave crime of getting a blow job from someone other than his wife, no one even talked about removing him from office. No, he only was asleep at the wheel for 9/11, lied us into a disastrous war, shredded the Constitution, allowed one of our major cities to drown, plunged us into debt, made the whole world hate us, polarized the country, and then left us the goodbye gift of the worst global economic catastrophe since the Great Depression. But here we are, a mere two years later, having brought back the same crowd in record-setting droves, only this time they’re even worse, as unimaginable as that seems, like a tribe of political crackhead vampire zombies, locked in mindless unrelenting pursuit of sucking dry the national blood supply."

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[thereismore]

2. Those are true words. nt

[Uncle Joe]

3. Battered citizen syndrome.

Thanks for the thread Iwillnevergiveup.

[Populist_Prole]

4. One of my bookmarked websites.

I eagerly look forward to each article. They are long reads but that's because they are so thorough and leave not a stone unturned. I wish the archives would link though because there is some great quotable stuff.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

5. We've got to hear more and listen more

to folks like David Cay Johnston - numbers don't lie and he's crunching them publicly. He's a regressive antidote, too.



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