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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
V.I. Lenin, explaining Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Bob Barr, Il Drumpf, his minions, and the entire Republican party.
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"The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." (Original Post)
The Blue Flower
May 2019
OP
The media will sell us a horse race at all times whether or not there is one.
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2019
#1
Some could also surmise that The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang ourselves
yaesu
May 2019
#6
Except for socialist capitalists & social capitalists & enlightened self-interest capitalists. . .nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2019
#10
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)1. The media will sell us a horse race at all times whether or not there is one.
They will manufacture a horse race any time they need to.
Witness climate change.
Witness the $2 billion free media the pussy grabbing incompetent authoritarian they horse raced into the White House.
happy feet
(871 posts)2. +1
llmart
(15,556 posts)3. +1000
olegramps
(8,200 posts)5. +++++
krkaufman
(13,438 posts)9. Consider campaign ad spending ...
Consider the campaign ad spending that would be skipped, and revenue lost to local broadcasters and cable news, if the news organizations did a proper job of objective issues-based coverage. Theres a disincentive driving coverage. (Aside from horserace coverage also being a lot cheaper than investigative journalism.)
0rganism
(23,974 posts)4. the rope's pretty expensive and we're using it to hang each other
Mr. Lenin might have missed this possibility in his forecast.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)6. Some could also surmise that The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang ourselves
as Democracy can never last under a true capitalist state.
can never last under a true socialist state either.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)8. and yes, capitalists hate anything to do with socialism
for them, its alway money above the peoples needs, the real death panels.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)10. Except for socialist capitalists & social capitalists & enlightened self-interest capitalists. . .nt