Barack Obama Promised A New Kind Of Politics, But Played The Same Old Game

And the Clinton era forward New Democrats' slavish grasping for corporate campaign monies have certainly turned the party away from continuing what FDR's New Deal had only begun.

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Add to what we can lay at Clinton's feet: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (that, the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine and the FCC's deregulation and consolidation of the media is responsible for hate radio and failure of the news media to inform citizens, and the elimination of privacy our electronic communications), the Financial Services Modernization Act and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (elimination of Glass-Steagall, etc.), and an extra-judicial assassination policy (bombing sovereign nations, drone attacks, etc.).

And what we can lay at the feet at all presidents beginning with Reagan is the privatization and corporate takeover of Americans' national resources and government.  And in an incremental, sneaky way that has dumbed-down Americans so they don't even realize what's happening until it's a done deal: Broke, enslaved, in dead-end Dickensian-like lives. 
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