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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

"I'm Stranded In Trumplandia: Life On The Edge Of America's Abandoned Middle Class"

A good steak made from "a good piece of ass" ...
with "blood coming from wherever."

 Trump's "Piece Of Ass" Quote
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I’m stranded in Trumplandia: Life on the edge of America’s abandoned middle class

While our leaders boast about an anemic recovery, both parties ignore the suffering before them. I know it too well


No doubt the powerful interests that want to protect their ever-growing share of the national wealth heaved a sigh of relief when they saw the recent images of Trump rally attendees beating up on progressive protesters, taking aim at Trump
From the oligarchs’ point of view, there is nothing better than having the victims of predator multinational capitalism all go after each other over issues like race and national origin. What you don’t want is a peaceful convergence of left and right. Better to have everybody fractionalized and alienated, scrambling for a share of the scraps.
Both of the major parties have long been co-opted at the top by these corporate interests, puppet masters pulling strings behind the scenes to become the secretary of the Treasury or appointed as ambassadors wherever they want. It’s all pay-to-play.
Right now, on the Democratic side, the presence of the superdelegates insulates former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a bit from the vagaries of the ballot box. And as brilliantly as Sen. Bernie Sanders has executed his insurgent campaign, he has to continue to try to offer praise for President Obama, whose two terms have seen America’s income and wealth disparities only widen, with middle-income and poor Americans continuing to lose ground. The big banks have gotten bigger, the war on terror has widened, and the clamp-down on government whistle-blowers has only escalated.
Last month, in South Carolina, a state where active duty and retired military are a big part of the GOP base, it became clear that the RNC had lost the troops, as Donald Trump won the state’s 50 delegates despite having called out President George W. Bush for waging an unnecessary war on Iraq under false pretenses.
The bipartisan overuse and abuse of America’s volunteer military has left many of these patriotic families fractured by suicide, addiction, long-term disability and divorce. They, like the residents of Iraq and Afghanistan, know the real price of these conflicts without end.
When both Trump and Sanders carried Michigan, it became clear that the rising anger within the electorate was about an America that no longer works for American workers.
What we have on our hands now is a political predator class that has been ignoring the social and economic circumstances of the people for a long time, and profited by doing so. They have kept themselves in power by serving the richest of the rich, cynically playing regions of the country, and segments of the population, against one another.
American multinationals avoid paying hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes every year, transferring the tax burden to small business and working people. We are misdirected to suspect the undocumented among us are the real drag on our national treasury. Yet these folks, one in three of whom own homes here in the U.S., pay billions of dollars in taxes each year.
Likewise, when unions were chased out of the private sector, but made inroads in the public sector, big money interests proceeded to demonize public unions for getting the type of pay and benefits that the rest of us were denied, because the new global trade imperative would not permit it.
We were all supposed to become lean and mean, like a vast team of Borax mules, pulling the billionaires’ dreams of global domination over the finish line. And for this great favor and opportunity, to work for ever-shrinking wages, higher taxes and less security, we are to deify the billionaires as paragons of philanthropy, elevated on golden media thrones of their own design.
I'm stranded in Trumplandia: Life on the edge of America's abandoned middle class

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Alan: Despite Trump's encouragement of the worst angels of our nature, I want him to win the Republican nomination 
to reveal the terrified face of American conservatism.
Remember: If you're terrified, the terrorists won.
And you made their victory possible.


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