2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAre we living in a Putocracy - Government by Political Whores?
Discuss.
pansypoo53219
(20,978 posts)ooky
(8,924 posts)BainsBane
(53,035 posts)In which the President-elect has no qualms about using the presidency and national treasury to enrich himself even further.
People decided to eschew the 240 year relationship between capital and the state in favor of a kleptocrat directly siphoning off tax dollars for himself. That his chief policy advisor is a White Supremacist is just the icing on the cake. At least we dodged the bullet of having a woman president who was savaged as a political whore for following existing campaign finance law and taking the same kind of contributions every president has for a century or more. Now we see the results of the endless GOP/Russian propaganda campaign,bought into and disseminated by the "progressive" Vichy collaborators, designed to smear her and put government directly under the control of a Kleptocratic enabler of the Fourth Reich. Heil Trump!
Your concerns are cute and all but show no awareness of the developments of the past several months. That ship has sailed. People could have voted for campaign finance reform that would have actually done something about the relationship between government and capital, but more than 62 million chose fascism instead. But at least we don't have a woman taking campaign finance money common among the heroes, like FDR, those same "progressives" gush over while refusing to vote for Clinton. No one should miss the fact that the sudden concern for the establishment and "corporatism" emerged under a black president who was poised to be replaced by a woman, and not in the centuries before when the party upheld traditional "values" like Jim Crow and served the interests of the economic elite of their period.
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)I was surprised that one poster in particular had the temerity of judging my awareness of current events based on this one post.
As if.
Cheers.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Last edited Wed Nov 23, 2016, 10:16 PM - Edit history (1)
I'm talking about people who are now or will soon be in positions of power in the government.
People like Mitt Romney, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Ben Carson,...
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)"pornography" literally means "writings about prostitutes".
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 24, 2016, 12:00 AM - Edit history (2)
However, my observation still stands. Ann Coulter writes about political prostitutes, whereas Mitt Romney is a political prostitute. One of them will govern, the other will just write about it.
It is interesting to note also, that Greek roots are okay, but Spanish roots are not. There is a subtle bias in that, that we are not consciously aware of.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Considering Hillary won the whole country by at least couple million votes yet still lost the election.