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Dr. Jill Stein @DrJillStein 8h8 hours ago
Thanks to all of you we have ended the @google censorship of our campaign! Together we win. #ItsInOurHands.
Thanks to all of you we have ended the @google censorship of our campaign! Together we win. #ItsInOurHands.
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Dr. Jill Stein @DrJillStein 17h17 hours ago
We are facing catastrophic climate collapse and a bleak economic future dominated by predatory elite. More of the same is not acceptable.
Dr. Jill Stein @DrJillStein 17h17 hours ago
We are facing catastrophic climate collapse and a bleak economic future dominated by predatory elite. More of the same is not acceptable.
ralph nader said 50% of what washington does is corporate welfare, which he adds the republican establishment supports.
he said the republican establishment doesnt support people programs like social security, or medicare, or whatever.
so they support big government for the corporations, but not big government for the citizens.
he said the republican establishment doesnt support people programs like social security, or medicare, or whatever.
so they support big government for the corporations, but not big government for the citizens.
carter is short for jimmy carter fyi. wondering what reagan would say?
HARTMANN: Our Supreme Court has now said, “unlimited money in politics.” It seems like a violation of principles of democracy. … Your thoughts on that?
CARTER: It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and congress members. So now we’ve just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election’s over. … The incumbents, Democrats and Republicans, look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves. Somebody’s who’s already in Congress has a lot more to sell to an avid contributor than somebody who’s just a challenger.
HARTMANN: Our Supreme Court has now said, “unlimited money in politics.” It seems like a violation of principles of democracy. … Your thoughts on that?
CARTER: It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and congress members. So now we’ve just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election’s over. … The incumbents, Democrats and Republicans, look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves. Somebody’s who’s already in Congress has a lot more to sell to an avid contributor than somebody who’s just a challenger.
"Yes, self-identified liberals such as the Clintons and Barack Obama speak in the language of liberalism while selling out the poor, the working class and the middle class to global corporate interests. But they are not, at least according to the classical definition, liberals. They are neoliberals. They serve the dictates of neoliberalism—austerity, deindustrialization, anti-unionism, endless war and globalization—to empower and enrich themselves and the party. The actual liberal class—the segment of the Democratic Party that once acted as a safety valve to ameliorate through reform the grievances and injustices within our capitalist democracy and that had within its ranks politicians such as George McGovern, Gaylord Nelson, Warren Magnuson and Frank Church and New Deal Democrats such as Franklin D. Roosevelt—no longer exists." - chris hedges
the problem is not only liberals who are not liberal; it is also conservatives, once identified with small government, the rule of law and fiscal responsibility, who are not conservative. It is a court system that has abandoned justice and rather than defend constitutional rights has steadily stripped them from us through judicial fiat. It is a Congress that does not legislate but instead permits lobbyists and corporations to write legislation. It is a press, desperate for advertising dollars and often owned by large corporations, that does not practice journalism. It is academics, commentators and public intellectuals, often paid by corporate think tanks, who function as shameless cheerleaders for the neoliberal and imperial establishment and mock the concept of independent and critical thought. - chris hedges
Roosevelt did not institute Social Security and public works projects, create 12 million jobs or give legal status to labor unions because he and other oligarchs cared about the working class. They enacted socialist reforms because—and we know this from Roosevelt’s private correspondence—they feared revolt or, in Roosevelt’s precise word, “revolution.” They established the New Deal programs in order to save capitalism, which Roosevelt later said was his greatest achievement. They realized they would have to give up some of their money; it was that or risk losing all of their money. And they allowed the New Deal to be born because they felt the growing pressure of radical movements such as those of the socialists and communists. Politics is a game of fear. And if you lose the capacity to make the power elites afraid, you become their plaything. This, in the simplest terms, is what has happened to us. - chris hedges
look at the population back when FDR was in office. it was roughly 130 million. so he hired 10% of the population when the private sector couldn't.
the suffering caused by unemployment in our last great recession was unnecessary. the government if it wasnt so beholden to corporate power, could have easily hired ALOT of ppl to fix infrastructure and start the green economy.
look at the population back when FDR was in office. it was roughly 130 million. so he hired 10% of the population when the private sector couldn't.
the suffering caused by unemployment in our last great recession was unnecessary. the government if it wasnt so beholden to corporate power, could have easily hired ALOT of ppl to fix infrastructure and start the green economy.
"The message from the above tweet says it all. She’s not running merely as a continuation of Obama’s last eight years, she’s running as a continuation of the last 40. A period during which median wages in real terms have barely budged, while income inequality has exploded. A period during which financialization has hollowed out America’s economy, while a handful of people reaped enormous wealth via labor arbitrage as they shipped manufacturing overseas. A period during which we have seen pointless war after pointless war, all in the pursuit of an enemy largely created by America’s imperial foreign policy in the first place. In other words, it hasn’t been a very good forty years for the average American. Nevertheless, it took a very long time for the public to figure it out, just like the boiling frog doesn’t get that it’s cooked until too late."
Boulevard859710
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What I see is a bunch of individuals that don't have nothing without the government. All these career politicians are trying to preserve their high life living on our dime by trying to take even more dimes from us. Like I said they need the government. Without it they ain't 
they're irrelevant.
they're irrelevant.Public Citizen @Public_Citizen Sep 29
Our new report shows how grassroots campaigns across the US are being undermined by corps outspending them at a rate of 10:1 h/t @uspirg
Rick Claypool, DemocracyIsForPeople, U.S. PIRG and 7 others
Our new report shows how grassroots campaigns across the US are being undermined by corps outspending them at a rate of 10:1 h/t @uspirg
Rick Claypool, DemocracyIsForPeople, U.S. PIRG and 7 others
The elites, including many in the corporate press, must increasingly give political legitimacy to goons and imbeciles in a desperate battle to salvage their own legitimacy. But the more these elites pillage and loot, and the more they cast citizens aside as human refuse, the more the goons and imbeciles become actual alternatives. The corporate capitalists would prefer the civilized mask of a Hillary Clinton. But they also know that police states and fascist states will not impede their profits; indeed in such a state the capitalists will be more robust in breaking the attempts of the working class to organize for decent wages and working conditions. Citibank, Raytheon and Goldman Sachs will adapt. Capitalism functions very well without democracy.
In the 1990s I watched an impotent, nominally democratic liberal elite in the former Yugoslavia fail to understand and act against the population’s profound economic distress. The fringe demagogues whom the political and educated elites dismissed as buffoons—Radovan Karadzic, Slobodan Milosevic and Franjo Tudman—rode an anti-liberal tide to power.
The political elites in Yugoslavia at first thought the nationalist cranks and lunatics, who amassed enough support to be given secondary positions of power, could be contained. This mistake was as misguided as Franz von Papen’s assurances that when the uncouth Austrian Adolf Hitler was appointed the German chancellor in January 1933 the Nazi leader would be easily manipulated. Any system of prolonged political paralysis and failed liberalism vomits up monsters. And the longer we remain in a state of political paralysis—especially as we stumble toward another financial collapse—the more certain it becomes that these monsters will take power. - hedges
In the 1990s I watched an impotent, nominally democratic liberal elite in the former Yugoslavia fail to understand and act against the population’s profound economic distress. The fringe demagogues whom the political and educated elites dismissed as buffoons—Radovan Karadzic, Slobodan Milosevic and Franjo Tudman—rode an anti-liberal tide to power.
The political elites in Yugoslavia at first thought the nationalist cranks and lunatics, who amassed enough support to be given secondary positions of power, could be contained. This mistake was as misguided as Franz von Papen’s assurances that when the uncouth Austrian Adolf Hitler was appointed the German chancellor in January 1933 the Nazi leader would be easily manipulated. Any system of prolonged political paralysis and failed liberalism vomits up monsters. And the longer we remain in a state of political paralysis—especially as we stumble toward another financial collapse—the more certain it becomes that these monsters will take power. - hedges
Global Trade Watch @PCGTW 2h2 hours ago
See how a “polluter power-grab" could be lurking in your backyard if #TTIP/#TPP allowed to pass via @sierraclub http://bit.ly/2dFJguL
See how a “polluter power-grab" could be lurking in your backyard if #TTIP/#TPP allowed to pass via @sierraclub http://bit.ly/2dFJguL
Global Trade Watch @PCGTW 9m9 minutes ago
Transatlantic public interest groups agree: #TTIP could "lock in" high drug prices in US and Europe http://bit.ly/2dFMQVA
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