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[C. G. Estabrook]

It's clear that there's no electoral ("parliamentary") route to ending the killing and looting by the US government, because both business parties follow essentially the same economic and military polices, to secure the interests of the 1%.

To pretend that here's a significant difference between them is simply to play into the monstrous distraction enacted by the quadrennial quadrille. In the US, policy is insulated from politics. For a generation Europeans have referred to a "democratic deficit" - when ostensibly democratic organizations or institutions in fact fall short of fulfilling the principles of democracy.

To reverse the 'bipartisan' war and financial polices pursued by the US government for a generation of Neoliberalism will require an effort equivalent to the civil rights or anti-Vietnam War movements. Elections won't do it. 

--CGE

"[Voting for reform-minded candidates] should take about five minutes, and then we go back to the important work on the ground to change the conditions in which the mostly farcical election process proceeds."  --Noam Chomsky

On Oct 16, 2012, at 10:11 PM, David Johnson <dlj725 at microsoft.com> wrote:

>  I came across the following on facebook: 
>  
> Ok liberals, Democratic Party partisans and reluctant, lesser-of-two evil ninnies, you might as well get used to it, and learn to live with this: The One Percent used Obama, and he, in turn, used you, and now the vampires of the One Percent are done with him. Apropos, he is going down in the coming election and he deserves it. 
> 
> Obama -- who, in 08', took more Wall Street dollars than any previous
>  candidate for the U.S. presidency, Democrat or Republican, in the history of the nation -- mission is complete i.e., He kept the Wall Street criminal elite afloat in U.S .Treasury dollars and provided them with get-out-of-jail-free passes. Obama's duplicitous mission was to prevent the possibility of meaningful reform being enacted when the U.S. populace was primed for it. 
> 
> Obama is a betrayer; and he will suffer a betrayer's comeuppance i.e., he himself has been betrayed by the ruthless sorts he served. 
> 
> History will afford him no pity. Deep down, most feel little but contempt for a betrayer.
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