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Related: About this forumWhy Hillary Won the Debate (Even Though She Didn’t)
Why Hillary Won the Debate (Even Though She Didnt)Gary Leupp
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They dont understand that people in their twenties who constitute the 75-year-old Sanders support base have no problem with socialism but rather have lots of problems with Wall Street. These millenials are evenhorrors!increasingly inclined to question the national god of capitalism itself. It has fewer positive connotations to them than it did for their parents who grew up during the Cold War and were subjected its particular brainwashing agenda.
As PR/disinformation master Karl Rove once put it (and this should be repeated as often as we repeat that wonderful quote from the imprisoned Goebbels at Nuremberg about using fear to build mass support for war): Were an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.
Its not a sentiment unique to Republicans. Recall how, during the 2012 Democratic national convention, the crowd clearly voted down the inclusion of a line supporting Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital of Israel in its platform. The change required a two-thirds majority of the vote, according to party rules. At least half the delegates voted against it.
The mainstream press, by and large, wants Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic nominee for president. Wall Streets leading candidates are Jeb Bush and Clinton; both are beloved of big money and either one will do. Sanders (even though in office he would likely buckle to their will, the same way Greeces socialist Alexis Tsipras buckled to the IMF and European Central Bank) is anathema to Wall Street. And the connections between Wall Street, the Washington power elite, and the press areto use the Chinese expressionas close as lips and teeth.
As PR/disinformation master Karl Rove once put it (and this should be repeated as often as we repeat that wonderful quote from the imprisoned Goebbels at Nuremberg about using fear to build mass support for war): Were an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.
Its not a sentiment unique to Republicans. Recall how, during the 2012 Democratic national convention, the crowd clearly voted down the inclusion of a line supporting Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital of Israel in its platform. The change required a two-thirds majority of the vote, according to party rules. At least half the delegates voted against it.
The mainstream press, by and large, wants Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic nominee for president. Wall Streets leading candidates are Jeb Bush and Clinton; both are beloved of big money and either one will do. Sanders (even though in office he would likely buckle to their will, the same way Greeces socialist Alexis Tsipras buckled to the IMF and European Central Bank) is anathema to Wall Street. And the connections between Wall Street, the Washington power elite, and the press areto use the Chinese expressionas close as lips and teeth.
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Why Hillary Won the Debate (Even Though She Didn’t) (Original Post)
portlander23
Oct 2015
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Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)1. You really like posting from Counterpunch, don't you?
Paul Craig Roberts, anti-Semite extraordinaire, and former Treasury Secretary for St. Ronnie The Imbecile is a regular promoted author there. Anyone who hosts that POS is not worth listening to on ANY matter.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)2. Interesting.
It just occurred to me why the M$M immediately flocked to declare Clinton the winner even as the Internet was buzzing about Sanders: their Wall Street flunky on the right isn't faring too well and they have to have at least one of them as the nominee to continue their stranglehold on American coffers.
No wonder the mainstream declarations were so unanimous and fast.
saturnsring
(1,832 posts)3. as if it is important
anamnua
(1,109 posts)4. Goering wasn't it? Not Goebbels. By the way, I invoke Godwin's law.