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errantgeek -> RE: Why Are Elected Democrats Politicians Shooting and Beating OWSers??? (10/27/2011 8:22:04 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Kirata
I ask because that's what everybody wants, but we don't seem able to agree on what it is.
In fact, about the only thing that everybody does seem to agree on is that the "other guy" is wrong.
So tell me, this is helping how?
K.
Well see, Step #1 is finding common ground.
My memory isn't the greatest, but the one thing I very distinctly remember coming from what would later become known as the tea party was the extensive patronage and governmental corruption between corporations and the federal government -- executive and legislative branches. The very first thing the people that would later become the founders of the tea party did -- which back then it was mostly right-leaning, moderate discontents and Ron Paul supporters -- was very loudly protest the bailouts. Remember the first two to three months of the Obama administration, when the chief complaint against the new administration was the appointments of Eric Holdier, Timothy Geithner, and the retention of Ben Bernanke? Why was that, again?
Skip forward to mid-2009, after Fox News, FreedomWorks, and AFP got hold of the tea party, and all of that dialogue and complaint had not only disappeared but been scrubbed completely from the tea party's list of grievances. Now, why is that? Skip forward another half year when Citizens United was handed down, which was an opinion the tea party for all its claimed populist roots should have been absolutely incensed over, and the dialog was they were not only pleased with the decision but cheering it! Strange.
My point is, and the reason I single out the tea party for this, is that one thing everyone should agree upon is that government should be equally representative, and not beholden to one faction or set of interests at the cost of ignoring the voice of the people. Ridding the federal government of corporate infiltration and influence -- be it patronage, lobbies, regulatory capture, whatever -- due to the hold the ultra-wealthy and corporations have on government and both parties, should be something everyone not in that "insider club" so to speak should aspire to effect.
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