2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: WTF is wrong with Americans? [View all]Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)process to be completely corrupted! Washington is awash in money, but only to the politicians who play ball, regardless of Party. Both parties suck up to the monied interests to our detriment and their gain. American Exceptionalism is bull shit! You stay exceptional by remaining diligent to the needs of the average citizen, not by how loudly you proclaim you are, or how loudly you denounce anyone who says we are not!
The corporate media has us hyper-partisan to the point where we support someone like Obama because he is so hated by the Republicans. We over-look his glaring give aways to Wall Street, the MIC, oil companies, and the spy/law enforcement agencies because he is on our team. Our military budget is out of control and they tell us they cannot even audit the Pentagon. They clamor for cuts to the poor, disabled and our social safety net and working people's retirements! Democrats sell us out on this as well, they are legally bribed to do it! Sure Obama is better than Romney. Romney was the Bogyman they scare us with to be grateful for Obama and they allow Obama to throw us some bones to keep us believing.
Amazing how they quietly agree when it comes to not prosecuting Wall Street or protecting the right to vote or even the votes themselves. There has been no correction for the electronic voting fraud except for the corporate media to tell us they cannot afford to do exit polling.
Our country has serious systemic problems that cannot all be blamed on the brainwashed, corrupt Republicans. We have all been brainwashed to some extent to even tolerate where we are now as a country. Whether you like Bernie or not, he is the only one who seriously has a shot to get us back to Representative Democracy. It will take millions of us to help push for this, it will not happen just by getting him elected.