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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-10 07:50 AM
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Corporatist America: The revolution has already been televised...
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jane-stillwater/30925/corporatist-america-the-revolution-has-already-been-televised

"It's the government that's to blame for everything!" right-wingers cry. "We need to have less government!" But exactly which government are these people talking about? Is it the government that Americans used to have back when George Washington was president? Or has a new form of government stealthily replaced that old-school government we used to know and love -- sort of like a take-over by body-snatchers, happening while our backs were turned and we were happily off watching TV.

Let's face it, guys. The U.S. government IS to blame for everything nowadays. But it is not the same government that we used to have -- as recently as 60 years ago. It's our former government's evil twin that is screwing everything up!

Just exactly which government is getting blamed by the right-wingers these days? Are they blaming a government that is run according to the Constitution, was elected by people who knew that their votes were being counted honestly and which is designed to work for the benefit of us American voters? Yep, that's the very one that the wingers are blaming -- even though that fantasy government has been moribund for decades.

And are the wingers blaming this new doppelganger government too -- the one that was bought and paid for by lobbyists, that is owned lock, stock and barrel by corporatists and corporations, and that is turning Americans into just another source of cheap labor for the new oligarchs? Nope. THAT government is escaping Scot-free from the right wing's wrath. That government is not being blamed for anything.

More at the link --
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-10 08:11 AM
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1. Yeah
Asked this repub lady yesterday about the contradiction of less government and her idea that big government should imprison someone like her if she had an abortion.

She was like: I dunno.
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-10 08:50 AM
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2. A rat bit my sister Nell...
...with Whitey on the moon. Thank you Gil Scott Heron.


BTW, I'm white.
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