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The Door Mat Party

November 26, 2014 By Adam Powell 1 Comment

As I was listening to NPR this morning, I heard a voice of reason, a voice of intelligence and decency, booming across the airwaves. This voice wasn’t unfamiliar to me, as I am already a big supporter of the man, but all the same it was an early morning blessing to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders on the air.

At any rate, the focus of Sanders’ rant this morning was the epic failure of the Democratic Party to represent America’s working class, the millions of men and women who struggle each day to keep their heads above water. It’s funny that Sanders would rant on this issue today as, just yesterday, I was raving the same rant about the Democrat’s failures.

As working Americans look to Washington for help and understanding, they see little more than a desert flooded with dried-out creatures seeking dollar bills to horde in their caves. Not only that, they see large, scaly reptiles working to sacrifice smaller ones to their corporate gods and slimy, side-winding belly crawlers dodging beneath the shade of dried brush so as to not agitate their large reptilian opponents.

Filed Under: Elections, National News Tagged With: 1%ers, Bernie Sanders, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, class war, democracy, Democratic Party, election 2014, GOP, Koch Brothers, middle class, NPR, Republican Party, two party system, Vermont, Wall Street, working class

Demoncats and Republicons: Independence from the Left/Right Paradigm

November 4, 2014 By Ethan Indigo Smith 1 Comment

Most people openly identify themselves as Conservative or Liberal, Republican or Democrat, right wing or left wing. But this identification just lends more power to those at the top of the piles (Republican or Democrat) who are visibly using money and power at our collective expense while hiding under a thin veil of divisive party “philosophies.” And yet this institutionalized notion of right and left wing is still supported by the public majority, who are somehow convinced that an institutional body whose job is explicitly to gain and maintain power and influence in competition with others has our society’s individual and collective best interests in mind.

The difference between Republicans and Democrats begins with rifts so great it might seem they could never have parallel direction, and yet they end up doing exactly the same things and support/are supported by the same elements of the status quo. The dividing line of the right and left wing is not as smooth as the spine line of an eagle or any bird, it is more like a zig zag zipper line, but they still fit neatly together, limiting public debate to the narrowest field of difference while creating the illusion of genuine deliberation.

Filed Under: Elections Tagged With: Affordable Care Act, Cuba, Democratic Party, election 2014, elections, Germany, healthcare, Obamacare, philosophy, Republican Party, two party system

The Illusion Of Freedom And Democracy  

October 14, 2014 By Adam El Nakhal 7 Comments

Land of the free and home of the brave. A phrase you often hear repeated in reference to the United States. Freedom is something everyone in this country values. You can find many surveys of citizens here ranking that as the best quality they feel is important to them when distinguishing the US from other […]

Filed Under: Civil Liberties Tagged With: capitalism, Democratic Party, election 2014, elections, freedom, journalism, mainstream media, media, Republican Party, shopping, two party system

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