Democratic and Republican poIitician
s are not each others' ene-mies, not as they have voters believing them to be. Democrats are in the same business as Republican
s: To serve their Corporate Masters.
Think of them as working on the same side, as tag relay teams (or like siblings competing for parental approval). 'Good cop/bad cop'. One side (Republica
ns) makes brazen frontal assaults on the People, and when the People have had enough, they put Democrats into power because of Democrats' populist rhetoric.
Once in power, Democrats consolidat
e Republican
s' gains from previous years, continue on with Republican policies but renamed, with new advertisin
g campaigns. They throw the People a few bones, but once Democrats leave office, we learn that those bones really weren't what we thought they were.
Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigan
s and all the different ways they've been tricked, and start seeing Democrats as no different than Republican
s, Democrats switch the strategy. They invent new reasons for failing to achieve the People's business.
Democrats' current reason for failing to achieve the People's business (because
"Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc.) is custom-tai
lored to fit the promotion of Obama's 'bipartisa
n cooperatio
n' demeanor. It's smirk-wort
hy when you realize that what they're trying to sell is that they're inept, unable to achieve what they were put into office to do...And their ineptitude
,
like that's somehow "a good thing".
Obama's 'job', as he sees it, is to deliver to the top 2%. No amount of begging, imploring, wishing, pleading is going to move him, as we've already seen. Whenever his approval numbers plummet (as they did again last month over his continuing Bush's tax cuts for the rich), Obama uses some *shock&awe
* event (like Tuc/son) to raise them. In Ari-zona, it was by making a speech at the University of Arl-zona where he promoted, again, the false narrative that the trag-edy was the result of "over-heat
#d poIitical rhe-tor-ic
" instead of loose regulation
s on g/uns and mental iIIness. Obama then uses that restored 'poIitical capital' in ways that help him continue the BushCheney
Neocon policies. He's gone silent on g/un regulation
s. but didn't Michelle look dazzling in red the other night?) and expanded mental health services around the nation.
Look at who Obama surrounded himself with once he got into the WhiteHouse
. Not one liberal. He's plenty tough when it comes to telling off the Democratic base and the left. And when members of his administra
tion are leaving (RahmEmanu
eI, RobertGlbb
s, LawrenceSu
mmers, etc.), he replaces them with more of the same. He puts people like EIizabeth Warren into tooth/ess posts, as "advisers"
, with no power whatsoever
. And nothing at all about that public option that Democrats would reintroduc
e, once the original legislatio
n was passed into law.
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