It's funny how every single reform you brought forth to "prove" that there is no plutocracy has been fought hammer and tongs by the plutocracy for the last century, and that new plutocracy you so desperately champion is doing everything they possibly can to demolish those reforms and return us to the Gilded Age.
antitrust laws
regulations
executive accountability
community input into corporate siting and salaries
Robber Baron supervision
democrats in high office
progressive taxation
There is no Progressive dictatorship. There are no Progressive gulags, Progressive secret police, or Progressives breaking down doors in the night. There are no Progressive tanks rolling over plutocrats, and no Progressives building death zones to keep their plutocrats in.
There is no Libertarian Paradise, its a pathetic utopian fantasy straight out of Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein; an imaginary world of Social Darwism gone amok, inhabited by those whose failure to achieve happiness and self-actualization can be conveniently blamed on the dreaded Statists. Libertarianland does not exist. Nowhere on the planet. Never in history. It is even more ridiculous than the Socialist Worker's paradise ever was. The closest thing you'll ever come to it is the country you live in right now, which you appear to loathe, considering your desire to return to some idealized past that never existed either.
No Tom. All your horror stories about the communists are the same old bogeymen the plutocrats have always conjured up to keep the booboisie voting against their own economic self-interest. There are no communists, TB. We won the Cold War, remember? The old Iron Curtain empires, China and Russia, are turning into the same kind of Capitalist Gangster Gilded Age States you are so nostalgic about. Brutal dictatorships run by corporate councils.
But you need them Commies, don't you? Just like the Palestinians need Zionists, and the Nazis needed Jews.
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An infinity of mirrors
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- Why the Right really hates Obama
- CM appeared a bit foolish to me...
- The opposition to the president has been unprecedented, and far past the point of reason.
- Re: Why the Right really hates Obama
- ARE YOU SERIOUS???? *Looking around for the candid camera*
- Yeah, Chris Matthews is going to tell it like it is.
- You cannot stay with an issue, can you. Impossible. Mind like a flea in a frying pan.
- Like I said.
- In order to discuss something constructively one must stick to the subject.
- Like I said.
- You cannot stay with an issue, can you. Impossible. Mind like a flea in a frying pan.