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just to add, there's Plenty of Blame to go around both of the two right wing parties that control the single party state that is the us of a. two patronage systems within the financial oligarchy.
clinton was the purest monetarist in alot of ways. his administration was a moderate republican period. he kept co-opting the right's message, which made them a little crazy: it was in response to triangulation that the new populist ultra-rightwing media apparatus began to take shape via limbaugh et al. one of their main jobs from the beginning was to impose an entirely fake set of co-ordinates on the political game: so clinton became a leftist. what this concealed was a power-grab within the republican party and the rise of the extreme right. we're all still paying the price for this--witness the thicket of self-serving horseshit about obama-as-leftist that you read here or see in meat-space. it's absurd empirically--but not only do people buy it, those in power use it to legitimate actions---like blocking the extension of unemployment benefits in what could well soon officially be a d-word. or blocking jobs funding then complaining about the lack of new jobs. you know, base stuff.
but yeah, we've had 30 years of unbroken neo-liberal domination in the united states and they've cumulatively brought the place to its knees.
and they will not accept the slightest responsibility.
everything is someone else's fault.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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