Posted on 05/14/2015 5:10:40 AM PDT by Nextrush
"The truth is that both major parties are now just commercial organisations, who raise money wherever they can get it to buy their way into office through unscrupulous election campaigns. They then presumably reward their donors once they are in office. The electorate are a constitutional necessity for this process, but otherwise their fears, hopes and desires are largely irrelevant."
Peter Hitchens blog post of May 8, 2015 on British politics, but equally applicable to this country
It doesn't surprise me that Leftist New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio was in Washington the other day to promote a "Progressive" agenda.
The President of the United States sure hasn't been. He's been faking a progressive agenda most of the time and the grassroots of the Left are growing more disillusioned.
This week they have to put up with Obama (and Mitch McConnell's) sellout to corporate elites and their latest 'free trade' scheme involving the US, China and other "Pacific Rim" nations.
I guess somebody has to pay for that library in Chicago and why not the big giants of international business.
Barack Obama promised the Left an end to the "wars" in Afghanistan and Iraq that Bush started. The troops never left Afghanistan and now they're back in Iraq to continue the policing of the world in the style followed since the Korean War by the Uniparties of the United States under the United Nations rules of international law.
Just like Vietnam, there have been attempts to make peace with the bad guys (Taliban) but just like South Vietnam's rulers some 50 years ago, the Afghan government has been reluctant so far to be dragged into a similar proposition.
And then there's Obama's shining example of "progressive" policy, the Affordable Care Act. Its "Affordable" for big insurance companies and big hospital-medical companies, but not so much for the people out here who have to pay the bill. Obamacare did on a nationwide basis what Mitt Romney did in Massachusetts, he bailed out the healthcare industry period.
Make no mistake, Obamacare isn't Communist or Socialist unless you define the bailing out of Capitalists as Communism or Socialism.
I laugh at the political trickery of it, like the taxing of "Cadillac Health Care Plans". It looks socialist on the outside equalizing health care, but on the inside it forces health care plans to avoid the tax by increasing upfront cash flowing into the health care system through increased copays. You pay more directly to improve the health care industry's financial health. And it hurts the rich less because they can better afford the copays.
The Republicans don't intend to get rid of the ACA, just replace it with a few modifications and a new name. But of course they've milked resentment and anger over Obamacare to help win two mid-term elections.
The GOP is just like David Cameron in England was recently with his highly successful campaign of fear to con people into supporting him.
Back to Peter Hitchens and his blog post last week:
"The crudest and cheapest methods seem sufficient to rob them of any memory that they have been fooled before. The crudest and cheapest of these is the supposed danger of rule by a Labour Party all of whose policies were long ago adopted in detail by the Tory Party. The difference between the two is that Labour is at least open about its passion for foreign rule, equality and diversity, confiscatory taxation, unsound public finances, mass immigration, terrible schools and lax criminal justice"
If we just changed the names in that last paragraph to "Democratic" and "Republican" it would fit pretty well with the situation in this country, too.
One other thing, the only sure Progressive policy you will get from Barack Obama is a Progressive Sexual Policy as in gay marriage and related matters.
The Republicans won't do anything meaningful about it other than to posture with symbolic laws that will be overturned by courts, while the bigger agenda of destroying First Amendment freedom for Americans opposed to gay marriage goes forward unchecked.
The elite corporate interests that back the GOP want gay marriage too and they don't want Constitutional rights for anyone who opposes it. That was proven in Arizona last year with a Republican governor's veto of religious freedom legislation and again this year when Indiana's and Arkansas's Republican governors backed down on similar legislation under corporate pressure.
FREE MARKETS DON'T MEAN MUCH WHEN FREE SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION ARE NOT ALLOWED.....
And what about other freedoms????? ...."first they came for..."
By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Matthew 7:16
Excellent post! You should repost it once a week.
This is neither news nor activism. It is the kind of rant that I would expect at DU or from one of the mindless Occupy folks
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