Do you work for the Washington Post or are the artist? Some folks would say that is in poor taste but others would admit there is a bit of truth and irony there.
By the way, irony does not come into play. Fury does. Just look at the extent to which the GOP first gutted product and workplace safety inspections and enforcement and then has blocked beefing them up even to their former level (as well as blocking anything else that might be of benefit to the American people). I could provide examples but I have in the past and the various Rove and Limbaugh clones here tried to shout me down. They tried that because they could not disprove my statements (I research them and quote my sources, and those sources do not include Faux news). The only thing preventing my participation at the level I once had is my health, not the methane (lower) exhaled by the far right nut cases here.
From where I sit, regulations are a necessary evil until the locally owned/mom & pop/small businesses is either financially destroyed or eliminated from the competitive environment, and then all bets are off to preserve the chosen few survivors to monopolize and maximize profits. In the eyes of the rich/elites the only thing government is good for is destroying the competitive spirit and protecting the selective few, AKA cronyism.
Yet the Democratic Party is run by filthy stinking rich elitists. How do you explain this fact, in light of your diatribe?
Both parties are ran by the rich/elites. The two parties are a scam. They are playing the parts they are paid to perform, and they both work for the same results from different angles, and the sheeple fall for it hook, line, and sinker. It's an elite club, and any stragglers who do get in conform, or are shuffled out as fast as they got in.
The difference is that one does not pretend to be for the welfare recipient and want to try to help the poor and downtrodden by giving them a handout (in exchange for their vote of course), and the other one does.
That's one difference, but they both do their share of pretending to be polar opposites. One side pretends to be the protector of the poor and downtrodden, while the other side pretends to be the champion of the hard working and spiritual, but both cater to the rich. They both attempt to divide and conquer by claiming they are not like their illustrious counterpart when they are really just the ying and yang for the same masters. The same emotional disconect you have with one side others have with the other side, and as long as they can keep you guys hating each other for your beliefs and way of life the easier it is for them to serve their one and only true masters. The rich/elites. You are being played just as much as the poor and downtrodden, and you are the enablers that make the scam possible. Keep up the good work and nothing will change.
I am not being played at all, I don't see either party as the ideal. I see one as far more deceptive and corrupt than the other though. That being said, neither party perfectly represents my position on all issues.
If you are giving the benefit of doubt to one party or the other, or full unadulterated faith for one over the other, you are being played. Continuing to give one or the other the ability to keep their true masters happy, but expecting different results this time around, is the problem. That's how good scams work. They play off your emotional disconnect, and influence you to do something that in a normal situation you wouldn't in a million years be a part of. And when I say you I don't necessarily mean 'you', but if you are playing the lesser of two evils stick, you 'ARE' a fine mark for the con indeed.
What part of neither party respresents my position on every issue are you having difficulty understanding? One thing that is disturbing to me with the current situation is, when Bush started making some boneheaded decisions Republicans called him out on them. I still see nothing but blind irrational loyalty to Obama. He ran on abolishing Gitmo (hasn't been done), trashing the Patriot Act (hasn't been done and he has ratcheted it up seeking approval to kill Americans with drones), and getting us out of Iraq sooner than Bush planned (he didn't do that either). In America you have to choose the lesser of two evils when you vote, clearly that is the Republican Party even with all their warts and issues.
Yes one could say that Obama is the best republican democrats ever elected to the POTUS since he continues to maintain most of Bush's policies, but they are not the same. So your answer is to re-elect republicans, even though Obama has maintained almost all republican policies? But you do not believe you are not being played? Good grief. The correct response would be not to allow the two party scam continue. If more people would attack this issue with logic and common sense rather than the mob mentality that allows this insanity to continue, we might be getting somewhere. Fear and uncertainty will not allow sanity to prevail, so it looks as if we are doomed.
The slime that oozed out of the trophy wives of the rich took over the Demwit Party. Liberals are agents of the Right Wing. Don't be fooled into taking sides, you'll only become a punching bag for the united ruling class's Right fist and Left fist.
Bad Cop, Good Cop game. You are not a piece, you are a pawn. Another one of their psychological tricks is that they know that most people won't admit that they've been made fools out of. Also, most people never grew up intellectually and are still searching for a father-figure type authority. I am that spoilsport who tells you that no one in a position of power and influence is worth looking up to. If you've heard of someone, don't listen to him. Filter everything you hear from above through the strainer that no one up there among the high and mighty lowlife is any smarter than you are or than the Man on the Street is. There's Main Street and there's Media Street, which is a dark dead-end alley full of foul-smelling garbage cans. Scribbling dumpster divers collect the lids to those cans, bang and clang them loudly, and call their Tin Pan Alley the "Information Age." From my position on the outside, I look down upon all insiders as ambitious imbeciles.
i never disagreed that the two party system is horribly flawed. I merely pointed out the current state of affairs. If you think amnesty for illegals, social program spending on steriods, and socialized health care are Republican stances, then I cannot help you understand.
Really? Reagan gave the biggest amnesty package to the illegal trespassers in history, and the immigration legislation being toted is a bipartisan bill. Republicans peddle their own form of social programs, they practically invented Obama care, and Newt and his congress actually created the legislation that made Obama phone possible, not to mention being some of the biggest corporate welfare peddlers in the country, I wouldn't say they are not just as destructive as democrats when it comes to irresponsible spending. The current state of affairs is how I have been trying to show you since this discussion started. The two party system is a scam.
Another brilliant and detailed refutation from Netwits. Which one of the ruling class's ventriloquists is using you for a dummy?
