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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Those Tea Partiers who wanted a balance budget and to end government interference with Medicare -- whose ideas do we count them as supporting?
A mistake too many Democrats make is to see politics as a simple competition between policy agendas, so it's refreshing to see a conservative making it too.
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Giridharadas is excellent on this issue. This place would hate him, but his point stands:
You get as much difference between the parties on important economic issues as their benefactors allow them to offer.
What this means is, the GOP can fuck everybody and funnel all the wealth to the top without apology. The Democrats can funnel a little less, until the same corporate masters deem it “too much reform,” and say, “that’s enough... you’re hitting my bottom line now.”
Then they divide us and get us fighting over social issues.
I absolutely love Giridharadas’ simple but brilliant intro consideration: “Did you ever wonder why all of the solutions to global problems offered by alleged big-brained credentialed consultants and policy wonks always happen to dovetail with policies and aims favored by corporations?” (Paraphrased)
The problem isn’t that “elites” have too much power. The problem is most are of them are boring, maleducated clones captured and brainwashed by corporate shepherds.
I love this guy. Love him.
