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[C. G. Estabrook]

Or, as the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers put it, "While you're out there 
smashing the state, don't forget to keep a smile on your lips and a song in your 
heart!"

E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> 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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