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Edited on Sun Jun-17-07 02:03 PM by StudentsMustUniteNow
No matter who wins the next election, it is unlikely that we will see much tangible change. Offshoring will continue. Excessive military spending will continue. The airwaves will still be dominated by powerful financial interests who spout corporatist propaganda.
At best we'll have a Clintonite Democrat who might give workers a little bit more of a cushion to land on. At best. Maybe the (overhyped) economic figures will improve and we'll hear, "How could you be complaining? Have you seen the GDP growth figures?? The unemployment rate?" These figures are of course usually misleading.
Now we have two frontrunners who are both eating from the hands of the international corporations. Yes, you're right that Obama and Clinton will support liberals on cultural issues like abortion and gay rights. This is easy since the corporations have nothing to lose from these issues. But private interests will continue to control our government, and our very nation will continue to disintegrate into indebtured-servitude, mindless consumerism, shittier jobs, and longer hours. Unions will continue to be dismantled. Universities will become more and more expensive.
Health care, even if it becomes universal, will still be in the hands of the insurance companies who will bleed us dry.
Perhaps we'll have new wars to fight to continue to boost this disgraceful military budget.
Even if Al Gore were elected, who is to say that he won't have his hands tied like he did in the 90s? Who is to say that he will stop the hemorrhaging of jobs?
How many candidates have spoken out against H1Bs? But even then, talk is cheap.
We need action, but we are simply pawns in a game where corporate financial interests weigh far too heavily. Our party has sold us out. They take our votes for granted because they know we are desperate. They know we cannot have eight more years of Bushism. So we are like dogs at the kitchen table waiting for our masters to feed us crumbs of bread.
It's the corporations who set the agenda, and we're the ones who vote for whatever they give us. We see our rock star candidates on TV and we act like they do us a favor by running for president. Maybe they don't give a fuck about us, despite their smiles. Maybe we're alone. Maybe in our privatized non-union new stage of consumer capitalism, all is lost.
I can't believe people here think they are actually driving the party, when it's private corporations who drive the party who, in turn, drive us.
Party of the people? Not anymore apparently.
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