It Really Sickens Me To Know That In Some Back Room Somewhere There Are A Group Of People Plotting..
to systematically take down this country and change it and that this has been going on for some time now and it is all finally coming together for them.
Things like the destruction of unions. Stacking the courts at all levels. Controlling the media and the messaging. Voter suppression. Rigging the markets and the flow of money. Sabotaging the President. Lying, cheating and stealing from the poor, elderly, downtrodden, students, middle class. Taking away our rights under our Constitution to protest.
And this is all happening right under our noses and many of us are able to see it happening to us but are powerless to prevent it.
We actually know the right things to do to turn this around - but are so weakened by the years of this systematic dismantling of this happening to us - that we can only sit back and watch it take place.
This group of people that are doing this to us call themselves Americans, Christians and Patriots and hide behind and use all those things that made this country great to take it apart.
It's also unfortunate that many common Americans are so totally screwed because they lost their jobs, their retirement and investment monies, their homes, their rights at work, their self-respect that they are completely oblivious to this systematic takedown.
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It's private property now, the cops won't let us play there anymore, and anyway, it's full of huge mounds of genetically modified bullshit.
The only way to level the playing "field of Reality" is to remove the 1% from power by peaceful direct action, getting enough like minded people together to simply surround those who have attained, through the ego/greed driven manipulation of wealth, the control our media, of our factors and means of production, and our common resources.
We kindly remove them from the field of Reality, then take over control of the commons that they have so tragically wasted and abused in their greed, for the satisfaction of their bloated egos.
Honestly, I believe you must be living in some kind of patriotic fairy tale, if you really believe that you are going to solve the massive problems we face through the current system. It simply does not work anymore, the machine is irrevocably broken.
It can't fix itself. The anti-virus programs have all been disabled, the hard drive is corrupt, and the processor is toast.
Don't get me wrong, I understand that re-electing Obama is literally, pretty much a matter of life or death for democracy in this country. The balance of the Supreme Court has never been more critical, and the importance of Obama winning this election cannot be overstated. If Romney wins, this country is toast. SCOTUS will be fascist for generations. And yes, we absolutely, positively need to prevent as many republicans as we can from holding office. The more Democrats we have in office, (despite the fact that many are compromised by the incessant lobbying/wealth of the 1%), the more time we will have to assemble and plan, and actually take effective action to solve our problems from outside the system.
The game is rigged, it really is, and if you can't see this, then your credibility is shot. It doesn't take a rocket scientist. The intense polarization of wealth has created a system with two classes:
The wealthy owners/rulers, and their subjects. Us.
It's called Feudalism, and it is going to get much, much worse, until we, the people, fix it from outside the system.
Now, you can wave your flag, and yell hooray for our team, and then watch as very little changes, as we lose all possibility of retaining any real democratic liberty forever.
Or, maybe acknowledge that wealthy global business people are constantly working at gaining more wealth and control for themselves, in order to create an oligarchy through continuous monopolization. Are you aware of the intense, extreme monopolization of the global factors and means of production and resources, and the concentration of wealth into the hands of a very few, that has occurred since the advent of WWII?
Do you really believe that this was some scattered and disorganized takeover? Do you really believe that the selection of Bush, and the Citizens United decision, was the result of chance?
In your "field of Reality", wouldn't a wealthy global capitalist attempt to control/own governments so that they can make more profit? Isn't that just simple logic and common sense?
They took over governments, just like they took over their corporate competitor, and they have a monopoly on governments now.
Plutarchy is the end game of global capitalism, it's just "business as usual", and it's totally logical, in the most destructive and inhuman sense.
Right now, we are in a serious check situation, just a few moves from checkmate, without any effective strategy for eventually removing our opponent's king from the board.
Hiding our heads in the sand doesn't work.
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Hi, Huey! Thanks so much for this video!!!
...with the hipster reference to Network, a truly visionary film for its time. Ned Beatty's climactic speech beautifully anticipated exactly what we are dealing with today. All of this posthumous revisionist bashing of Walter Cronkite that's going on right now is no coincidence.
People like the Kochs would very much prefer it if they could remain simply a "they." They work very hard to maintain their "they" status.
Referring to them as "they" does not invalidate ones argument, but "they" would have you think so.
By calling out the OP for the use of "they" (or "them"
, you are doing "their" bidding.
Discussing content of an Internet rant would be like critiquing a movie solely on its narrative story line. That's of course what most people who haven't studied film as an art form tend to do, and it's unfortunate that so many are unable to articulate their impressions of any of the other aspects of film - Visual composition, editing, photographic style and techniques, or the plethora of dimensions of the sound track.
Style is everything in the rant form of literature. It encompasses emotion, rhythm, patterns of tension and release, creative use of grammar and punctuation, and devices such as zeugma, alliteration, and rhyme. There is no limit to the level of artistic expression that can be achieved in a well-written rant.
By calling out the OP for the use of "they" (or "them" , you are doing "their" bidding.
That kind of analysis is about as interesting and intellectually deep as expounding on the psychological sub-text in "Jack and Jill."
The OP in this thread is just a mediocre rant. There have been some truly great ones posted on DU. I encourage you to study the form and learn to appreciate it beyond simple narrative.
I dunno. Just getting a simple direct message across has a great deal of merit in itself, IMO.
In the area of political discussion, I'd personally rather be dazzled by simple sincerity than baffled by sinuous pedagoguery.
They didn't need to have it done in the 30's - they just needed to wait until now. There is a fascist takeover of government now - they want to strip what is left of it and sell it to the highest bidder. That's why they selected Mitt Romney - a psychopathic, soulless, heartless empty suit who made far more money firing people and gutting companies of their assets than anyone else. These billionaire vulture capitalists are the true definition of what a terrorist really is - and they're doing far more damage to America than any Al Queda esque group could ever dream of. 
I wonder this all the time.
