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In reply to the discussion: Why on Earth should we nominate a presidential candidate who voted for war with Iraq? [View all]DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Indeed. In fact one could argue that therein lies the current system's primary weakness. As well as ''the tell'' of who this whole political paradigm is designed by and for.
Just who were they ''trying to look presidential for?" The world stage? The other leader-actors of the old guard states in Europe? Or, the MIC? Of course. The MIC. That's where the REAL power is in this country. And why wouldn't it be? We're still top dog because we have more killing machines than anyone else on the planet.
And we're in the war-making bid'ness, and so it stands to reason that the the war-making companies would have all the power, since they have all the information and control all of the buttons to the important shit.
- So maybe we should be asking ourselves, why do we continue to trust anyone but ourselves with our future? Isn't one definition of insanity where one continues to do the same thing over and over again expecting a different result? If we want a different result then we'll have to start with building a different system.
K&R
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