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February 11, 2008 at 23:18:58

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Right or Left? It's All a Huge Game to Keep Us Occupied

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If you ever wonder how this administration gets around the contempt of the American people, or why they haven’t been impeached by now, or why we always end up with a President supported by the Military Industrial Complex, all one has to do is watch how we are manipulated between “Right” and “Left”. Let me tell you something that very few people understand, there is no right or left in this country. This is a diversion to make you believe that you somehow “belong” to an influential group of people, and by the way, you don’t.

I have been telling my listeners on my radio show for weeks now that the entire left/right dialogue is meaningless. We have a corporacracy that is basically headed by the large multi-national companies that make their killing off war and rumors of war. We have the defense industry; we have the banking industry, the pharmaceutical industry and a myriad of other corporations that sustain themselves by influencing our elected officials to do what they are told to do. The top 10% of the richest families in the US hold over 71% of its wealth. http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/faculty/hodgson/Courses/so11/stratification/income&wealth.htm

Can anyone explain this? This means that the other 90% share 29% of this nations wealth. Are you as impressed as I am? How do you think this would play out on the MSM? It’s obvious that you will never see it on CBS or NBC or any other media outlet. Do you believe that the richest 10% of the wealthiest families pay 71% of our taxes? Are you kidding? So what can we do about this “class war” that most of us don’t even believe is happening? If you look at the graphs in the link I provided, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. This is the greatest disparity of wealth in the US ever. This should be an issue, shouldn’t it? Well it’s not, and it will never become an issue as long as the mainstream media is owned by the wealthiest families in America.

This brings us down to the right/left debate. This, my friends is the largest fraud ever perpetrated on the American public. When 61% of the people in America want us out of Iraq, isn’t it strange that we are still there? http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/international_security_bt/394.php?lb=btis&pnt=394&nid=&id=&gclid=COnA_4LqvZECFSF4lgodcmfpCA How does the government manage to hold down public opinion? It’s fairly simple, pit the American people against each other. Get them to argue nonsensical talking points with each other so that they don’t see the big picture. This is a perfect example of “Divide and Conquer”. If they can keep Americans busy with meaningless jargon, they are free to do what they will, which is to find ways for corporate gain at the expense of the American people.

So, what do we do about it? Stop talking left and right, conservative or liberal, it doesn’t make a dimes worth of difference. Every time you argue a political point with an acquaintance, you fall into their plans. Instead of talking about the differences, talk about your similar set of circumstances. Talk about how the middle class is being raped by those that control the wealth in this country. To my amazement, some of the people that listen to my show are far right conservatives. I don’t dwell on our political differences, I try to find issues that we can discuss; issues between right or wrong. You know something, it works. When you use facts in your arguments and illustrate how we are ALL being taken for a huge ride, you will find that we aren’t too much different in our views.

People in this country are not stupid. I hate the word sheeple, because they are not that. They are ignorant because they haven’t been told what the “real rules of this game are”. They are screwing the middle-class out of existence. One only has to look at the facts. This means turning off that propaganda machine that sits in your living room, or just watching movies. Watch the news and they will bring this right against left and vice versa constantly. Remember, it is not about that. The problem is the same people that control most of the media control the MIC. The game is all about money and how to get it. Keep playing by their rules and you’ll find your pocket picked in no time. The banks are after us, the credit card companies, the pharmaceutical companies, the oil companies and the defense lobby makes sure we are at war all of the time. AIPAC has every politician feeding out of their trough. We spend 30 Billion dollars to support Israel and it comes back to America to buy off the politicians. Ask Cynthia McKinney who it was that got her unseated in her Congressional District. http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/08/cynthia-mckinney-confronts-corporate-media-malice-in-court/

So the next time somebody wants to get you into a right/left argument, tell them you don’t have the time. Tell them you are smarter than to fall for that kind of thing. Maybe they’ll want to know the truth. You know it now, what are you going to do about it? How about not voting for either Hillary or Obama that are beholden to the richest of the rich? How about voting for someone that will represent the vanishing middle-class? I can only clue you in; I can’t do it for you. This is something that you will have to investigate by yourselves. Another thing, I don’t make this stuff up.

That’s the way I see it.

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Kevin Gosztola goes to Columbia College in Chicago where he is studying film. He hopes to become a documentary filmmaker. He is currently working as a production assistant on a documentary called "Seriously Green" which traces the development of the Green Party throughout the 2008 election. He has a passion for journalism and writes articles or press releases in his spare time. Kevin Gosztola is also a student activist who believes in questioning the way America's systems work(its electoral sys...

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Kevin GosztolaKevin Gosztola goes to Columbia College in Chicago where he is studying film. He hopes to become a documentary filmmaker. He is currently working as a production assistant on a documentary called "Seriously Green" which traces the development of the Green Party throughout the 2008 election. He has a passion for journalism and writes articles or press releases in his spare time. Kevin Gosztola is also a student activist who believes in questioning the way America's systems work(its electoral sys...

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This Election Was An Anomaly

Because we had a candidate in the Republican Party worth considering (Ron Paul) and then two from the Democratic Party worth considering (Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich). Then, the corpocracy went to work and got it down to John McCain and Hillary/Obama. (What about Huckabee? Well, he could never work. While he is crazy like them, he represents crazy lower and middle class Americans. That could never work.)

However, it proved that the problems are left and right and not just right. The left and right ignore the real problem: corporatism. And there is only one way of fighting corporatism: you have to drive a wedge in between the two parties and use that wedge to split the two-party strangehold apart.

That wedge needs to be a strong third party or Independent candidate this year. We have tons of time to fundraise and get started.

We need to a true progressive voice in 2008 to go up against the left and right that has betrayed and alienated the true voices for change in America.

I'm not naming any names of candidates to support. You do the research like Timothy says. But please...Do the research.

by Kevin Gosztola (235 articles, 127 quicklinks, 72 diaries, 907 comments) on Monday, February 11, 2008 at 11:56:55 PM

waldopaper is an insignificant teacher, informed reader and professional writer... living in dominionist crackerland... with two women, one young man, three cats and two dogs... alarmed at a failing state controlled by corporate psychopaths armed with nuclear weapons. There's a light on. Somebody's home.
waldopaperwaldopaper is an insignificant teacher, informed reader and professional writer... living in dominionist crackerland... with two women, one young man, three cats and two dogs... alarmed at a failing state controlled by corporate psychopaths armed with nuclear weapons. There's a light on. Somebody's home.

Close...

... but if they're talking about "voting" for someone or "supporting" a "candidate," they still don't get it. There IS NO "government." there IS NO "political process." There ARE "organizations" that fill the potholes, deliver the mail, throw us in jail, etc.

As soon as those "organizations" stop paying the fake "money" that buys fake "food," potholes go to China... mail goes to hell... and jails will be hotels. Look... even the thickest of us knows what the problem is... the only "solution" is if ONE of us can explain it to "the governmnet."

by waldopaper (11 articles, 3 quicklinks, 25 diaries, 431 comments) on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 9:25:52 AM

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No war but class war.

Turning the powerless against each other is the only way to keep them that way. That goes for the race- and gay-baiting and all the "culture war" nonsense. Those are questions of "morality" but whether children go without food or healthcare isn't? Those are "values" issues but the billions of taxpayer dollars blown on corporate bailouts isn't? One side gets working people riled up about mythical creatures like "welfare queens." But rather than expose the fallacy of that ruse, the other side dismisses the targets as ignorant rubes for buying into it. To reframe this pitiful excuse for a debate we're going to have to get beyond the false left/right dichotomy, but that also means seeing through the "let's all join hands" cult of personality the corporate media builds up around certain politicians. It means bringing the substantive issues such personalities can never be bothered with into clear focus...and not cowering when the elites waging the "class war" chastise you for fighting back.

We had a truly rare opportunity this year with a candidate (John Edwards) who had a chance at actually achieving tangible progress within one of the two major parties. There are usually a sprinkling of Kuciniches or Gravels on the ballot, but it'd been since Jesse Jackson in 1988 that that progressive of a candidate had that much of a shot. But once he adopted his aggressively anti-corporate rhetoric, the media made sure that chance withered on the vine, with all the talk of the haircut and the two-way image race. I was very disappointed he dropped when he did, but I was also very disappointed to see fellow progressives buy into the "inauthentic" garbage the corporate media spoonfed them to kill his candidacy. Dennis Kucinich was at one time virulently pro-life, and yet he's been forgiven by liberals. As Wellstone said, people should be willing to accept "conversions" from their leaders if they're honest, or whatever his wording was. Edwards came clean on his war vote and it was very frustrating to me to see the flack he got not only from the mainstream (which was understandable) but the flack he got from those on the outside who seem to have allowed a defeatist attitude to take them over. If a candidate reaches 10% in a national poll, then he's obviously not "pure" enough to be worth supporting under this mindset. Well, congrats; that campaign's over and we're not likely to see the likes of it again for a while.

I will happily support Nader this year. With his name recognition and past record of decades' worth of real, tangible success in the real live world, he's my first choice, but I'd also support McKinney. But now we'll have to settle for chipping away at the two party duopoly from the outside rather than using it from the inside to accomplish real progress. I understand Nader's reasoning for declaring complete independence from the two party system, but I also have a problem with the mindset I hear sometimes that people need to reject anyone who runs as a Democrat just to oppose the two party system just for opposition's sake. Nader's never made that mistake; he saw the rare opportunity Edwards' candidacy offered this year. That candidacy went far beyond one man, and to miss that is to fall into the same image-driven trap everybody on here rails against. It's just unfortunate that Nader is so irrationally despised by so many Democrats that his recognition didn't amount to much this year.

by denny03 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 8 comments) on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 5:06:41 PM

CPA, University Lecturer Risk Finance, Major Royal Australian Infantry (Inactive) RFD, Former Mayor City of Greater Dandenong, Wife from Arabic speaking coutry, Former Lecturer Arabic & Islamic culture - Army Reserve Command & Staff College.
kwalshCPA, University Lecturer Risk Finance, Major Royal Australian Infantry (Inactive) RFD, Former Mayor City of Greater Dandenong, Wife from Arabic speaking coutry, Former Lecturer Arabic & Islamic culture - Army Reserve Command & Staff College.

My experience also

From my experience todays political process is largely about divide and rule in order to control the division of the spoils of office. Keep people competeing and squabling amoungst themselves so they will need a patron/protector who they will need to reward somehow (by votes and contibutions). Such a process needs enemies, often factions in the same political party (indeed I have know of deals being done with the stated opposing party to 'do over' our own). We need to see the creation of enemies for what it is, an instrument of control. We need to unite and work together for the common good.

by kwalsh (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 222 comments) on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 8:07:29 PM