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Reality Check
I’ve seen a lot of people lauding President Obama, mostly due to the Republican rhetoric on the culture wars. It’s pretty sad that we are once again falling for this dog and pony show, while those in power fuck-off with all the money.
Hot on the heels of a report showing 29 of the 30 largest corporations in America get tax refunds, Obama has come out and said he wants to LOWER corporate taxes.
Yep, there he his, the man of the people. Mr. Liberal. He knows who his paymasters are. The same ones that pay the Republicans.
The same Mr. Obama who derides Citizens United, but lines up at the super-pac trough with the rest of the pigs.
Yes, there are differences between the two parties. You will get policy shifts on minor issues. But where it really counts, who controls the nation’s resources, both parties stand united.
With the rate our economy and the planet is deteriorating, we no longer have time for the lesser of two evils. The duopoly is responsible for too much suffering for us to bow out from the fight. There is no solution while Democrats or Republicans are in office. We must spend our precious time and resources on an alternative, not fighting for the side that pretends to share our views.
Americans are encouraged to vote, but not to participate more meaningfully in the political arena. Essentially the election is yet another method of marginalizing the population. A huge propaganda campaign is mounted to get people to focus on these personalized quadrennial extravaganzas and to think, ‘That’s politics.’ But it isn’t. It’s only a small part of politics…
Noam Chomsky – Interventions (via noam-chomsky)
