2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumOne reason Wall Street wins is because democratic and republican voters cheer politics like it's a
sport instead of real life. I'm as guilty of this as anyone . The raucous atmosphere is the shiny object used to distract us from fraudulent candidates and the real culprits the billionaire class.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)wages, education, regulating capitalism, unions, climate change, civil rights, and other important issues.
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)You didn't miss much. Repubs trying to get Hillary to crash and burn and Hillary wasn't about to give them the satisfaction - even though one could tell she was pissed off. It was a bunch of nothing and now because she didn't lose her temper, that qualifies her to be President? LOL!
Much ado about nothing.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)I didn't watch it either because Benghazi doesn't effect my life in the least.
I was, however, angry that 83 Republican and Democratic senators did vote to move the big-business-can-spy-on-you-and-share-your-information bill along (83-14 for cloture). Bernie was in the 14 who think big business needs to stay our of our lives.
Did that get press attention? No. Yet it effects far more people than the Benghazi bullshit.
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)Assholes. They knew no one would be watching - distracted by the dog and pony show.
Not surprised one bit that Bernie was one of the 14. He always votes for us. He always does the right thing.
Press? What press? We have no legitimate press anymore. That disappeared when CLINTON got rid of the Fairness Doctrine.
Glass-Steagall, GONE. Fairness Doctrine, GONE. 60,000 U.S. factories, GONE. The DEMOCRATIC Party, GONE. All because of Hillary's husband.
jfern
(5,204 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)The circus pushed the real issues into the background for at least a week. I'm sure Jamie dimon watched gleefully.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)It's garbage and not what we need.
Bernblu
(441 posts)I used to think of it that way until I realized that both party establishments work for Wall Street and against the middle and working classes. Bernie is the only candidate working for us.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Inform them.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)the group I watched with agreed it was way too much like announcing a circus act or sports figures. I haven't seen any Republicans debate, I don't have a big enough hot water tank to do so. But, I imagine it's much much worse.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)They even bet on it.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Ladies and Gentlemen in this corner we have the man with the hair Bernie Sanders and in this corner we have the Lady in pantsuits with flair Hillary Clinton. And in this corner the man who can pick up the beat Martin O'Malley. And we have two contenders over here the granite man himself Lincoln Chafee and the man who literally has been under fire Jim Webb... okay bump fists and go to your podiums.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Kalidurga
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JRLeft
(7,010 posts)they can but not without a fight.
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)mhatrw
(10,786 posts)Our entire democracy just rode off on the Crazy Train.
Thanks for the Meaningless Partisan Spectacle, Top 0.1% Reality Show Producers!
silenttigersong
(957 posts)What a duopolist circus.I have not learned anything new about Ambassador Stevens death .I guess I am ignorant of the facts .I believe he died as a sacrifice to larger mission of control for Libya.Collateral damage so to speak,like the hospital in Afghanistan.It also reminded me of Bushs propaganda concerning the Irag war.Clinton exposing about the bad man having chem weapons ect.I am baffled with why if there must have been planning going into Libya ,and as Clinton exposed- allies and Arab Partners where pleading intervention .Why was there no plan for a worst case scenario regarding Stevens safety?
Come on really- are we being fed more bullshit -like some sort of neolithic grunter ummm good Hillary bad Hillary? Of course we are.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)but reality TV.