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Call me crazy, but I feel like there has to be a full blown conspiracy between the two parties (not necessarily the individual candidates), to keep us fighting

Call me crazy, but I feel like there has to be a full blown conspiracy between the two parties (not necessarily the individual candidates), to keep us fighting over petty social issues which have no bearing on the social order. We fight over issues like gay marriage and abortion which make no difference to the establishment, while the cable companies strategically raise rates while reducing service and avoiding competition. The medical industry extorts us so the insurers' can get a 20% cut off a larger pie. Police departments around the nation use civil forfeiture to pay their bills and buy margarita machines. As long as elections can be won on bullshit tired issues like abortion, we'll never see any political progress - and that's just how the robber barons want it.

slededit 10y ago
Call me crazy, but the ability to chose who to marry or whether or not its permissible to end a life seems slightly more important than Comcast raising their prices again. Your other issues are quite valid, but I thought that was a very poor lead example.
- branchless 10y ago
  It's an example of something the establishment can concede having pretended they care, that has no effect on them. If you care they love it as you will fight harder and longer which keeps you away from things they know will destroy them, like land value tax and questioning how money works. So it's the ideal example.
- uabstraction 10y ago
  I completely agree with you dude. I don't mean to imply that these issues are irrelevant. What I'm getting at is these issues are so aggrivatingly clear cut from a personal liberties perspective that they should have been resolved decades ago. Allowing people to marry who they want to, and giving people full autonomy over their bodies doesn't hurt anyone. Yet we let these issues continue to decide our elections. For the top hat wearing monopolist, it's great because politicians/pundits are so busy campaigning for/against abortion that nobody points a finger at the soul sucking corporations who run this country.
branchless 10y ago
100% agreed. The establishment use liberal issues like a sand pit at the bottom of a hill. Slows true reform to a halt.

slededit 10y ago

Call me crazy, but the ability to chose who to marry or whether or not its permissible to end a life seems slightly more important than Comcast raising their prices again. Your other issues are quite valid, but I thought that was a very poor lead example.

branchless 10y ago
It's an example of something the establishment can concede having pretended they care, that has no effect on them. If you care they love it as you will fight harder and longer which keeps you away from things they know will destroy them, like land value tax and questioning how money works. So it's the ideal example.
uabstraction 10y ago
I completely agree with you dude. I don't mean to imply that these issues are irrelevant. What I'm getting at is these issues are so aggrivatingly clear cut from a personal liberties perspective that they should have been resolved decades ago. Allowing people to marry who they want to, and giving people full autonomy over their bodies doesn't hurt anyone. Yet we let these issues continue to decide our elections. For the top hat wearing monopolist, it's great because politicians/pundits are so busy campaigning for/against abortion that nobody points a finger at the soul sucking corporations who run this country.

branchless 10y ago

100% agreed. The establishment use liberal issues like a sand pit at the bottom of a hill. Slows true reform to a halt.