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To which I replied: "If you played cards with a group of friends for 15 years only to learn they were cheating you the whole time, would you go back and keep betting your money in their rigged game?" "No." "I didn't think so. Nor will I."
originally posted by: TechniXcality
a reply to: wasaka
Yes sir, #s got to change and the political parties and their sacred cows and dogmas must be dissolved.
originally posted by: TechniXcality
a reply to: TheWhiteKnight
I think it's a fairly consistent view, radical change to either side of the political spectrum at this point also entails protecting those dogmas, I am undecided on exactly where I stand I lean right of center though not on everything but I truly am discovering more truths about my self in relation to this world daily.
originally posted by: Klassified
a reply to: wasaka
The American people will do what they always do in the face of treason and government corruption. Rationalize it, and live in a state of denial, so we don't have to grow a pair, and actually do something about it.
originally posted by: WeRpeons
a reply to: wasaka
Where is the free press in all this? Are they not supposed to keep an eye on people in power and maintain a check on corruption? They're just puppets of our government now. They're Ignoring the 800lb gorilla in the room just like they ignored exposing the government's lies about 9/11 and the war in Iraq.
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America,
as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one
of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you
know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly
for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with.
Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you
who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on
the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to
appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation
would be gone.
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to
pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country
and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly
is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich
men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings
and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the pro-
perty of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
John Swinton, former Chief of Staff, The New York Times.
At the end of the climactic scene (8 minutes) in HBO’s Emmy nominated Hacking Democracy (2006), a Leon County, Florida Election official breaks down in tears. “There are people out there who are giving their lives just to try to make our elections secure,” she says. “And these vendors are lying and saying everything is alright.” Hundreds of jurisdictions throughout the United States are using voting machines or vote tabulators that have flunked security tests. Those jurisdictions by and large are where former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is substantially outperforming the first full wave of exit polling in her contest against Senator Bernie Sanders.
originally posted by: projectvxn
People and their political religion does not allow them to disassociate certain dogmas from the type of person they think believes in them.
For an example, I'm a vocal gay rights advocate, I am also a vocal anti-gun control advocate. It is during election season that I feel the most alone.