Misconceptions
A lot of people are linking to the video and transcript of Elizabeth Warren responding to the distortions being spread by the plutocrats and their minions, about how things work in reality. She slaps down all of the libeRandian ignorance about ‘self-made’ businesses.
Listening to her it is difficult for the younger people to understand that what she is talking about isn’t liberal. She would have been classified politically as a fiscally conservative Republican not all that long ago, quite similar to my former Congresscritter when I lived in Rochester, New York, Barber Conable.
On a similar theme, Ellroon has my new favorite graphic.
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ha! that is an excellent graphic!
iirc [and i tried looking it up on the interwebz and found nothing] elizabeth warren once said she had at one time considered herself a moderate republican. she’s very much like my parents, who were moderate-to-liberal republicans [because it was the other party that was infested with rabidly racist jingoistic misogynist dixiecrats] for a very long time.
She grew up and went to school in the middle of Republican ag country, so that would be her natural fit, but the Republicans drove off the right end of the spectrum and left a huge slice of their party behind when pursuing Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
What did happen to all the intelligent Republicans? Went into hiding as centrist Democrats?
I miss those days where actual discussions could be had between parties. Where corporations didn’t own every congressperson and their vote. Where the needs of the country and the citizens were important…. Will we ever see the like again?
The system is no longer about actually governing the country, it is solely about winning elections. When the price of elections pushed the vast majority of competent people out of the competition, we were left with those willing to sell their souls for the campaign funding. given the dystopian view of the election process espoused by the majority on the Supreme Court, I don’t see a realistic way of bringing a functioning system back into place.
I will do what I can by continuing to choose the best candidate available, who is more frequently to be found in minor parties, as neither major party seems to care about dealing with the problems the country faces.
That really was a great find/creation, Ellroon.