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eheller

- 08 Feb 08
- 4:38 pm
*sigh*. So true and yet so frustrating...just when I started to "get fooled again" by reading some of Obama's speeches - which are extremely inspiring to a progressive like myself - here comes a bit of truth to wash it away. As whaththeheck aludes to - as Ralph Nadar continues to say - there really is just one party in America and that's the Corporatist party. When you think of it, in a world of competing interests, why wouldn't the most powerful entity every devised - the modern corporation - find a way to protect their interests? Still you come off …

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- 11 Feb 08
- 12:34 pm
Nicely said Jon B. The only thing I'll add to this very engaging conversation (ain't the web great?) is that it is certainly true - and eloquently put - that "no politician can win the presidency by attacking corporations in our era". But there is reason to believe - or at least hope - that this won't always be the case. Dominant power structures are always being challenged and - eventually - undermined. It could take half a century and there's no promise that the alternatives are always better (Weimer and National Socialism, after all), but at least change offers opportunities. …

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- 17 Feb 08
- 11:57 am
What ended the Great Depression was a massive public works project called World War ll. Without this enormous infusion of government spending into a stalled economy, the Depression would have become the normal state of things. It turned out that high unemployment and low wages - with a small percentage enjoying a high standard of living - could work just fine. The Depression lasted over ten years, after all. Honestly, I've been watching scorp's comments here and I'm glad the very bold letters to my right "please be respectful in your comments" has kept me from going against my personal commitment …

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