In order to understand that the D's are not just 'good light', or 'watered down goodness', one has to understand just how far the reach of the 1% has captivated and emasculated a party already known for its spinelessness.
I'll bullet the prime points of anti-democracy which I believe shows them to be more evil than lesser.
*Obama signed on for indefinite detention of any American labeled a terrorist [definition to be supplied by WH as need fits [eco-terrorists, occupiers, you name it, the label will fit], There goes (along with his nauseating continuation, support and use of the patriot act) any semblance of differing on Bush on the roll-back of civil liberties the country was founded on. Plus the new drones and willingness to assassinate extra-judicially, any aforementioned terrorist. Where does that put us ahead of the evil Bushco-years on that point.
*Obama loves monsanto: he has hired 2x's now I believe Monsanto toadies and bootlickers to top Ag spots. Determined to control the seed stock of the civilized world and pollute the rest - and Obama has been there for them. While michelle putters in her organic WH garden we are geetting increasing pro-Monsanto agenda from WH.
*The unbelievable willingness to let WS off the hook, even after the levin committee 'gift-wrapped' a prosecution, Holder and co, obviously won't go after Goldman Sachs or any other major Banksters - but they got Wesley Snipes for tax evasion!!!whoopdee do!] The evidence is in, the banksters ripped us off, took massive trillions of bailout money, sent 9 trillion of to European banks and then bonused themselves in the billions I believe [added together] for a job well done. If that is not a sell out to wall st. [that dwarfs bus's by a factor of 3-4] I really do not know what is.
IS it still a democracy when neither the party in charge, or the 'opposition' raise a peep when the largest heist in the world goes down? I mean yeah - you are voting - but is there any connection here between the vote/campaign promises and the results? Any? Once Obama put wall st. insider Timmy G. (evil slur meant to suggest vapid 'jazz artist' kenny g. intentional ;-)) in place we knew where this train was headed.
*Health care...I distinctly recall being relieved that O was going to go for single payer - which at the time 65% of Americans supported, and in a Democratic act of spinelessness exceeded only by the failure to impeach Bush for lying to america re: WMD and false flagging us into war in Iraq obviously for oil, we got a tepid bill that FORCES Americans to give yet more money to the same non health care industry that helped ruin our current system.
Are a few things better - sure. are there any caps? no, only preexisitng conditions are tied to the same rates as those without, so everyone's already excessive insurance premiums are or have already gone up. The most evil, uselss, non-value added segment of American health care has just been rewarded for their decades of screwing us, with MANDATORY allopathic insurance. As a user - nearly exclusively of natural medicine calling it insult added to injury doesn't quite sum it up.
*Jobs/Green - Energy independence: his debacle in supporting a big contributor of his has tied his hands in much of the green development, but a timely and serious mea culpa, then used as an intro to the bully pulpit, could have had him every week hammering the public/media and congress - into doing the will of the people, make energy independence a 10 yr goal, and tie it, logically to a create green jobs bill. This is such a no-brainer on every front....but instead we got lukewarm bills pushed half-halfheartedly. A massive failure in an area we desperately needed on every front.
Blaming obstructionist R congress is so lame, especially when considering Reagan [his favorite president (!?!?!?!?!?!?) went right over the heads of congress to the people who by phone calls forced unwilling congress-folk into going with his plan. Obama has traded the presidents most powerful tool, the bully pulpit for lame community organizing, can't we get along with republicans excuses.
Community organizing is fine, in it's place, but we are a country at war with a 1% trying to [and quite successfully I might add] rob, dis-enfranchise/undemocratize and dis-empower us, and the goodwill and hope for change we had after his election was in retrospect a sick joke.
*Pro-Corporate/1%er foreign policy: same old as bush, got us out of iraq quicker - but let his generals blackmail [literally see B. Woodwards book] him into an Afghani quagmire that continues to ignore the fact that Pakistan is the source of terrorism in the region and that fighting radicals willing to live in caves has never worked well for england, the soviets or us. Never, oh but the real reason we are there was actually let slip by Gen. Petraeus - 'we can't leave now, we found a trillion $'s of minerals'.
*Money out of politics: flat line
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Yes - the Dems still push for the lefty wedge issues, as the R's do for the right, but I propose IT IS ALL A SHOW in terms of the above points. Not that the reps and senators don't believe there respective wedge positions, which rally the passions and pocketbooks of so much of America, but a show in the sense that the real nuts and bolts of what the 1%/plutocrats want they get no matter which party is in, they know the only price to this game, is not overly support either side too long, and let the wedge issues fall as they may, so the 1% can live to rip us off & manipulate us another day.
Thus the neo:lib/con coup that has overtaken the parties and Presidency is an evil with no real lesser or greater in terms of America's future as a democracy.
I do not for second think Obama is an intellectual lightweight like Bush was [or played so masterfully for 8 years] he is smart and maybe would do serious structural good if he could. Why he can't we can speculate, but the bottom line is he had 4 years to try and get the country turned around, and I watched closely to see how hard he tried...and not once did he use the bully pulpit in a way some who really gave a damn, or wanted to fight would.
And how can we hope for much less expect change in America, when the 2 parties are, at the level of federal leadership one party gives us: NAFTA, Indefinite detention/Assassination of Americans (cause the administrations secret panels think they might be terrorists), a budget that adds 12 'T'rillion in debt. And refuses to use the bully pulpit ala LBJ and Reagan to force needed change that the people want! Oh, and refuses to prosecute criminal Banksters in the largest heist known to mankind, when the senate hearings [by their own party!!!) give the AG a 'gift wrapped' case. And refused, even when again given a gift-wrapped catalog of impeachable offenses of worst President ever,oversees from a mere 20 miles away, the 23 hr/day torture of a whistle-blowing private, sweeps it under the rug so they can not appear to mean and divisive before an election."
And the other party lies us into a war, that we borrow money from china to pay for, gives us the treasonous patriot act, Allows said banksters to have 3 trillion to give to europe and themselves as bonuses, open up a just over the border int'l torture center, has a VP and top adviser complicit in outing a CIA agent, lowers taxes on wealthy which loans from china have to pay for, earlier back we have the treasonous Iran-Contra.
Sadly you expect that level of criminality and contempt from the Republicans, from Nixon on, but a close examination reveals a pattern, ALL the structural changes made have been for the worse, all benefit the founding of a police state (as treatment of the Occupiers and pvt. Manning shows) and the pockets of the 1%.
We no longer have the country I was born into, it is as simple and sad as that. You can be detained without trial, known reason and disappeared just like in Pinochet's Chile.
Our economies have become 3rd world, and our laws re: civil liberties, right to assemble - effectively gone, freedom of the press, there but unused - except in the underground [and got to far and you will be holed up in an embassy relying on the good graces of a 3rd world president for sanctuary from....America!
I am afraid the 1% and the Military/Industrial Complex took careful notes as to what/how and why the Vietnam protests were as effective as the were. They seemed to vow never to let their power get away from them again, and they have succeeded, based primarily, in hindsight on manipulating us through fear and wedge issues.
The awful realization I had last year of the 1% needing only to cajole, fool, blackmail or threaten c. 500 people to effectively control the country has only grown as the most likely/simple explanation to what has happened to our 2 parties.
They have proved time and again who they work for, and for the answer to that we need only examine the recent words Mormon ex-Bishop Romney (of all people), and when the job is not only not getting done, but to the contrary, we are being undone, we just need to fire them. Both Parties. As soon as possible.
Do I hope to sway this election - or am I likely ? Not really at all but will I stand back and condone Obama's continued rape of the constitution in the name of Bush's war on terror?
People on the other side of either party wonder how bad it needs to get till the other side gives up on their obviously failed and 'evil' leaders and party, that time, sadly is demonstrably past. We need to ditch both. Go ahead and, vote your lesser evil if you really must, but is it not past the hour to plan for taking back America, how many more elections will you keep doing it? And can anyone pretend anymore that the 2 parties are 'on our side'?
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Solutions to come next week, after the conventions are over.
Has Obama really signed extra-judical assaination and disappearance of americans into law? http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11264-john-cusack-and-jonathan-turley-on-obamas-constitution#.UEJvHM3ZXlE
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