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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
12. The key word is illusions
Tue May 5, 2015, 07:21 PM
May 2015

Take the trickle down economics was the "horse and sparrow theory" from the 1800s responsible for so many recessions & the Great Depression plus the Panic of 1896 but still so many working class & poor buy into the idea that giving them tax cuts & lifting "job killing" regulations is good for them. Renamed, repackaged, & resold like a company after a scandal "supply-side economics" during the Reagan years. The options are from politicians that market their positions, often before & after primaries. When it comes to Bernie Sanders the illusions will be he's an extremist, he'll lose in a landslide, it will get very ugly -- I'm afraid that even though he is right on most of the basic ideas, will buy into the illusions.

So much of what he says can be mistaken as a conspiracy but I can't provide links backing up so much. When he says rich white owners (I'd say the rich in general) don't care about black people -- being in Kuwait & Iraq I've seen first hand experience the level this country doesn't care about poor black & brown people of Asia & Africa. Saudi Arabia & their neighbors especially so and the US backs them because when it comes to business they're practically Libertarians.

Duh. Our political system is based on systematically lying to constituents. n/t PowerToThePeople May 2015 #1
The GOP really has a problem identifying satire. LiberalAndProud May 2015 #2
So do some DUers, regrettably! nt MADem May 2015 #20
In every ones defense.... daleanime May 2015 #22
Somebody else had zero respect for our system and he was a genius NoJusticeNoPeace May 2015 #3
LOL -- I posted a George Carlin video too after reading the OP JonLP24 May 2015 #6
Mark Twain of our time NoJusticeNoPeace May 2015 #7
George was a Great American Truth-Teller. hifiguy May 2015 #9
If George told the truth, and he did. if George was right, and he was NoJusticeNoPeace May 2015 #10
The key word is illusions JonLP24 May 2015 #12
Weird, in this 2001 show Maher says he believes in god, didnt know he did back then NoJusticeNoPeace May 2015 #13
This overall discussion reminds me of The Sunset Limited JonLP24 May 2015 #14
I'm often reminded of this George Carlin on "bullshit" these days JonLP24 May 2015 #4
That is an astonishing amount of unvarnished truth hifiguy May 2015 #11
I knew there was something missing JonLP24 May 2015 #15
Andy's really on a tear re Bernie. Love it. cali May 2015 #5
I love good satire Gothmog May 2015 #8
Borowitz is usually pretty good--that little image, though, with his quote, doesn't do it for me. MADem May 2015 #16
Sen Sanders is running for the Democratic nomination and scaring the hell out of Goldman-Sachs. rhett o rick May 2015 #18
Obviously, you didn't take the point of my post. Try reading what i wrote, AGAIN. MADem May 2015 #19
I am surprised. Thespian2 May 2015 #17
I Just Gave Bernie Another $30 Yallow May 2015 #21
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