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[E. Wayne Johnson]

The oligarchy that manages the top-down Republican party is just as 
committed to the maintenance of the status quo as are their colleagues 
who manage the top-down Democrat party under pretenses that are not 
significantly different.


On 8/3/2009 12:49 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Those who voted for Obama to end the war and improve the economy were 
> the more deceived.  He has instead completed Bush's war in Iraq and 
> waged a more brutal and aggressive war from Palestine to Pakistan -- 
> part of America's "Long War" to control Mideast energy resources.
>
> America's invasion and occupation of the Mideast are comparable to 
> Japan's invasion of Manchuria or Germany's invasion of eastern 
> Europe.  The US (and its client Israel) wants war in the Mideast and 
> so discourages peace offers: if peace were to break out, there'd be no 
> excuse for American military control of the region.
>
> And while the rich got richer and the poor poorer at an accelerating 
> rate in the Bush years, it seems that there will be no substantial 
> change under Obama.  Only banks are bailed out.
>
> The Democrats' misrepresentation of their policies has become so great 
> that an anti-war/anti-Wall Street critique is emerging in America. 
> It's not clear that the Republican party -- once, long ago, as opposed 
> to wage-slavery as it was to chattel slavery -- can be the vehicle for 
> such a critique. New political forms -- outside the "two-party system" 
> designed to constrain public protest  -- will be necessary if a 
> semblance of democracy is to be restored in the US.
>
> The economy -- Wall Street and business corporations -- have to be 
> brought under democratic control.  And US troops -- and their clients 
> and mercenaries -- must get out of the Mideast.
>
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