I'm continually amazed how our "divided govt" can deliver for the corps and 1% but not the people.

[Skwmom]

It's just amazing how that works.

They reach across the aisle in this great show of bi-bipartisanship that is praised by the corporate media to deliver the corporate and 1% agenda. Yet they always point to the other side for an excuse as to why the people's business can not get done.

And if anything is done for the people, it always seems to involve a HUGE corporate and 1% giveaway to the insurance industry, pharmaceutical industry, etc.

This is just one part of the BIG CON that is being perpetrated on the American people.

Note: It really is stunning what you see when you step back and look at the big picture.

[daleanime]

1. K&R....

[Le Taz Hot]

2. Yeah, you noticed that too?

Single payer healthcare, nope! Can't be done! TPP -- an INTERNATIONAL gig? No problem!

[Punkingal]

3. K&R

[hobbit709]

4. We have a government of by, for, and of the corporations

[Skwmom]

6. A retired Navy officer told a class he spoke before that we are now the U.S. of Corporations. nt

[draa]

5. All THIS and so much more.

[raindaddy]

7. Great point!!!!

All the Republicans seem to be on board with the President's trade bill...

[scottie55]

8. Jimmy Carter - America No Longer A Democracy

Looks like we have an ex prez that agrees.

http://mic.com/articles/125813/jimmy-carter-tells-oprah-america-is-no-longer-a-democracy-now-an-oligarchy#.ZOeM7P0yQ

[ReasonableToo]

26. USA: Home of the pre-election coup

In Honduras, when the people elected a popular president who 99%-friendly and not so friendly to multi-national corporations, a military coup fixes the "problem".

see:
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/31/exclusive_interview_with_manuel_zelaya_on
or http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/24/hillary-clinton-emails-and-honduras-coup

in the USA, the multi-national, corporate-owned media accomplishes a pre-election coup by steering the voting sheep to their pre-approved candidates. They only need the polls to be close enough for the electronic voting to finish it off for their candidate.

See: just about all coverage of Sanders, Kucinich, etc. and the 2004 Ohio electronic voting fiasco (http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0601-34.htm)

[FrostyAusty]

9. WE NEED

OUR GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE, NOT DIVIDE!

[mountain grammy]

10. Yeah, no kidding.

[kairos12]

11. The game is fixed for the house. Occasionally a chip

Is tossed to the peons. With great fanfare I might add.

[jalan48]

12. Probably because we have two Wall Street political parties.

Wall Street conservative on social issues and Wall Street liberal on social issues.

[jomin41]

13. U.S. citizens carry a huge burden that

the citizens of other countries don't: An enormous military/ defense/intelligence budget. I doubt anybody knows how much it is exactly since much is hidden, but at least a trillion a year, maybe a lot more. Yes, we need a defense establishment but it shouldn't impoverish people. The burden is NOT being shared equally.

[ReallyIAmAnOptimist]

14. We are seeing a 'proof' of what Kurt Vonnegut said ~1975...

“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.
The people don't acknowledge this.
They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”

[stillwaiting]

15. It's all bullshit propaganda. That is the narrative that is pushed on the masses so that...

... expectations are NON-EXISTENT. It is very important to the status quo that the masses believe that the government can NEVER do much of anything to improve their lives. It allows for so much more of the taxes we pay to be funneled to Big Business.

Most elected Democrats are happy to go along with this. I guess it's because they truly don't care enough about fighting for average Americans well-being. They seem happy enough to be part of the status quo (which allows for them to become quite comfortable and wealthy in many cases).

[Dustlawyer]

19. ^^^^^THIS^^^^^!!!!

[Plucketeer]

20. And even if they (Democrats) start out with nobel ideals

they eventually succumb to the siren call of easy money. Lookit Howard Dean for instance!

[malthaussen]

16. Funny how that works, innit? n/t

[creatives4innovation]

17. They're all in

When there's a war on too.

[sulphurdunn]

18. Divide and Conquer.

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It's easy when you control the flow of information and use it to play people off against one another using their fear, greed and prejudices.

[Plucketeer]

22. You meant Divide and CONJURE, right?

[retrowire]

21. exactly. any one who is against single payer

is supportive of the big con.

[d_legendary1]

23. That's cuz gubbermint can't do anything right for the people

The guys and gals in charge say so. But that doesn't mean a business has to suffer the same fate.

[corkhead]

27. Perfect example in Flint. Snyder says "Government Failed" not the Republicons running it.

Why anyone would vote for someone who campaigns on "Government can't do anything right, elect me and I will prove it to you" is beyond me.

[d_legendary1]

33. Its a great method for casting blame from one's self

while blaming the institution for one's ineptitude. Its a lie that needs to be exposed as much as possible so these greedy leeches can't take office again.

[lastlib]

24. THAT's how our government is divided!

On one hand, the gov't for the corps/1%ers--everything works splendidly for them. On the other hand, the gov't for the rest of us--we're fucked. It's by design.

[NorthCarolina]

25. The Dems and the GOP have the SAME AGENDA, and it doesn't really have much to do

with the little people. Bernie is out to change that, and I fully support him in his quest.

[TIME TO PANIC]

28. K & R !

[Populist_Prole]

29. Oh hell yes. It's so obvious

You see it clearly when they are trying to cut the safety net. Brutally clear on the TPP issue: the ardently obstructive republicans suddenly agree with the president and want to work with him to pass it.

Disgusting.

[GoneFishin]

30. Yep.

[mmonk]

31. Bought isn't divided except in flavors.

[jtuck004]

32. That sure makes 300 million + people sound like utter fools. n/t

[Utopian Leftist]

34. The older I get

the more certain I feel that I understand the biblical passage that states, "It is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle."

What do the wealthy care about more than anything in the world? Maintaining or adding to that pile of riches they have plundered! That is what makes them believe they are more valuable than the rest of us, and worthy of "special" circumstances.

The oppressor never willingly lets go his stranglehold on the oppressed. Like Liz Warren (and Network before her) says, things in this country will only change when the average person yells, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

[lostnfound]

35. When you want to sail upwind, you tack left then right

Left then right then left then right

[harun]

36. It's been going on for a long time. When the 1% asks Congress to jump

they respond with how high? for how long? and how many times?

Any legislation for the people is met with "Not budget neutral", "this can't pass", "we don't have enough votes, sorry". The 1%'rs legislation, big banks, big war, big corporate welfare, somehow manages to sail right through the troubled waters of Congress.

One needs only to spend an hour or two looking at what kind of legislation gets passed each year, then watch C-SPAN of the House and Senate. It's all cheerleaders for the 1% from both sides of the supposed aisle.

[Skwmom]

37. But to the people, it is always no no no.