While you were busy fighting, thieves stole America
I've suggested divisive infighting has been a useful distraction that enables corporatism. Much evidence of that in social conversations I read on facebook. There's plenty of common ground among the wage earners, but folks in the cheap seats are paired into political and social subsets, provoked to attack each other instead of directing their energy at restraining Washington. We're the useful idiots perpetuating the crime by doing...nothing but bickering and name-calling. The political parties have become bastardized versions of their former selves, directed by operatives who have but one common interest: to suck from the enormous teet of the federal government. OWS and Teaparty movements are symptomatic of common unrest by the populous, yet the perception is sold to us that their forces oppose one another. Seeing a thread here? We're never allowed to forget the fights. The black/white issue keeps popping up in the media. But ask yourself who is advancing...