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ORIGINAL: EPGAH

I hope to whatever supernatural entity you believe in that you're just joking.

We need to start being nationalistic again. Whoever comes in is fine, as long as they assimilate. If the benefits America provides aren't a good enough Payoff for them to join us WITHOUT trying to takeover, then they can find a country more suited to their tastes!

Uncontrolled immigration and our newfound "multiculturalism" bullshit removes any drive for them to assimilate.

Think of making Kool-Aid, but instead of pouring in a little at a time, and stirring it around, forcing it to become part of the whole, you just upend the container, and it becomes an unassimilated lump at the bottom of the container, presumably demanding concessions for its group?

Oddly, Teddy Roosevelt figured this out 101 years ago--WITHOUT computers! What is the excuse for the modern demagogues?

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250
It's like every bill written in the last 16 years has favored big business and not "The People."
I laugh when people use the word "capitalism". What we're doing now is not capitalism.

Bingo.

I wrote a diary entry at RedState (yes, the rightwing website) where I compared Corporatism to Capitalism; it was not well received, to put it mildly.

But the truth is, both liberals and conservatives are missing the big picture- the merger of corporate power and government power; It perverts both in the long run.
Huffpo had a great article showing why a Democratic committe was overrun by banking interests

Democrats- not Republicans- were in the pocket of the banks, and voted against the interests of the people, and for the interests of the banks.

Oh, the Republicans on the committee did likewise- but no one was surprised at that, and they themselves are proud of it.
But the sobering message for liberals, is that maybe only 30% of Democrats are capable of standing up to the banks and corporate interests. We are living in a new Gilded Age, akin to when the corrput trusts ran the country. What we need is a Teddy Roosevelt to take them on and break up the entrenched powers.