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Doom and Gloom for the Dumb and the Glum

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But hey, it’s a free society. It’s a free world. I don’t get to tell people they can’t say what they want to say. That would be fascism, right?

 

And that would be bad -- and pretty evil Duopoly of me, huh?

 

So it’s a good thing we have so many criers of Duopoly Doom around on the interwebs. It makes it easier to figure out who’s worthy hooking up with and who ought to be ignored. Who knows what they’re talking about and who is talking out of something that should really be used to expel feces.

 

Who is going to confront Obama about the bad decisions he’s made so far and try to get him to reverse them, or at least do a better job of explaining why he made them.

 

Who is going to effectively make noise to make those mistakes visible, and explain why they’re wrong in a way that makes the right people listen, and makes everyone who gives a damn act on them.

 

Who is going to use their influence to influence others to put pressure on the folks up at the top to get them to change their ways.

 

You see, Obama’s not the second head of the single-bodied beast, but neither is he the savior of America. He is a politician. He is playing politics as he leads.

 

That’s what always happens when we vote someone in. All we can hope for is that, at the end of the day, we’ve convinced him to do more help than harm.
But someone has to convince him, and that’s OUR job.

 

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J. Edward Tremlett is a lot of things, currently. He's back in the states after a seven-year stint in Dubai, UAE. He's been published in such diverse places as The American Partisan, the International American, The End is Nigh, Pyramid Magazine (more...)
 

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