Topic: Election 2008
Tonight: Evil debates Evil, moderated by Evil. Tonight we'll see three men who won't call each other out on their sociopathic, anti-democratic beavior.by John Kusumi
(centrist liberal)
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
On Tuesday night, October 7, the evil sociopath John McCain is supposed to debate with the evil sociopath Barack Obama - and the moderator will be the evil sociopath Tom Brokaw. They are quite happy and chipper to be privileged members of America's sociopathic elite.
However, increasing numbers of Americans see right through them. Increasing numbers of Americans know that they have been shafted by both Republicans and Democrats. The most recent shafting is fresh in everyone's minds: Friday, October 3 was the final passage of the ill-conceived "Paulson plan" for a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street firms. Increasing numbers of Americans know that Henry Paulson, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, was previously the Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs (formerly a Wall Street investment bank).
Increasing numbers of Americans know that the emperor has no clothes. The recent bailout misdirected money away from solving the problem. Home foreclosures will continue. Americans who keep their feet on the ground know that Wall Street is basically a casino. The bailout was of the swindlers, by the swindlers, and for the swindlers, essentially covering the gambling debts of some big boys inside the casino. To cover those losses, they took the problem outside of the casino and mugged the American taxpayers.
And what's more, McCain and Obama both voted for the bailout (while ordinary Americans opposed it by 200 to 1). They became two of the muggers. The American people ought to have McCain and Obama on a "Most Wanted" poster, not on an "Elect Me" poster.
Hence, tonight's debate will find two evil sociopaths debating with each other. And the moderator will be the evil sociopath and ersatz journalist Tom Brokaw. The correct question for any moderator to ask is, "Why should any one of us vote for either one of you? Why shouldn't you go directly to jail? Where is the principle of private property if the men inside the casino can mug the taxpayers outside the casino?" If there is no private property, then there is no capitalism. Hence, another good question is, "Why are you socializing the costs of private sector profits?" Tom Brokaw won't ask these questions, because he himself is in on the juggernaut of evil that is bringing down America.
At the beginning of the primary election season, we saw Tom Brokaw's organization, NBC News, fight all the way to the Nevada Supreme Court for the purpose of barring, excluding, and silencing Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) by retracting his invitation to a debate. If the other Democratic candidates happen to value healthy democracy, they should have insisted on including Kucinich in their debate. That they did not do so tells us that they are sanguine about NBC's anti-democratic tactics.
Indeed, all three of these men (McCain, Obama, and Brokaw) can only have this debate tonight because they are "in" with the Commission on Presidential Debates. That is a unit controlled by the two parties and it will not invite Ralph Nader, nor candidates of the Green, Libertarian, or Constitution parties into the debate. In other words, to merely say "hello" or "good evening" in this context, it requires that they are sanguine about the anti-democratic tactics of the Commission on Presidential Debates.
McCain, Obama, and Brokaw are not going to call each other out on any of these problems, because they are all implicated. They are in on it, and they "have each other's backs." The various television networks are also guilty of participating in this charade / this kabuki theater / or, this evil - unless they immediately follow the debate with the Nader response. If the American people want to hear from a political candidate who has not recently mugged them, then they absolutely must turn to Nader, or to the Green, Libertarian, or Constitution parties.
Nader will be on the ballot in 45 states. That means, whether TV networks mention it or not, most voters will in fact have a choice, a third option, and a way to vote outside of the self-destructing, pro-Wall Street system of two "oppo-same" parties.
To vote for either McCain or Obama now can be seen as an endorsement of the $700 billion bailout, and most voters do not want to add their name into that column. As the leading alternative, Nader is frankly the best way out for voters who would not mug their neighbors.
Not only can we say that McCain and Obama would mug their neighbors; they just did. This month, they have already voted in favor of the bailout. The October surprise was that these two candidates mugged America.
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Posted By: Jake, the champion of the constitution
Date: 2008-10-07 04:11:51
nice rant, good stuff although can you share some evidence for calling brokaw a "sociopath"? not familiar with those, although the propensity for war with mccain and obama would be called that by any non-indoctrinated person
I'm actually planning to vote for Baldwin (Constitution Party), but your argument here is presented very well, and I agree with your sentiments 100%.
Perhaps I'll check out Nader a bit more.
Thanks!
I truly don't believe that you have the slightest idea what a sociopath is. If you do, so many people would fit that description, I'm sure YOU would be among them.
John McCain and Barack Obama are about as different as land and sea. And, Tom Brokaw is about as fair and gifted a newsman as there is on the networks today.
Your article has no content to it, no reasoning, and certainly no logic. But, then, I suppose that doesn't bother you. You just like using the word "evil". Ha! Ha! What a lugnut!
Jake, in the simplest formulation at the essence, a productive person adds to society, and a sociopath subtracts from society.
When historians write the history of wars, bubbles, and stolen elections in the past 25 years, Jennings, Brokaw, and Rather hold a unique legacy of shame, whether they were smooth talking us into war; ignoring bubbles; or smoothing over stolen elections.
There are three plausible excuses for their legacy. It is fair to ask: Were they sinister? Were they ignorant? Or were they remiss?
Let's think about that. Were they ignorant? No! Especially before the world wide web, their access to information was "world class" beyond that of "the rest of us."
Were they remiss? Did they just overlook (e.g.) genocide and election fraud? Well, they omitted it. But if journalism was truly competitive, they would have broken the stories they were sitting on. "Remiss" is too mild of a word when they had knowledge of the stories, and when people died in the related wars and genocides, which got worse during their tenure of silence in the face of atrocities.
By process of elimination, we can conclude that they were sinister and that journalism at their level was not competitive; it was only important that ABC, CBS, and NBC news (each a formulaic, managed product) were essentially interchangeable. Instead of path breaking news, we got "me too" news.
About Brokaw specifically, I wrote a very level headed, reasonable article - an open letter to NBC News - when Brokaw was retiring after the 2004 election. It is titled, "Brokaw's unfinished business" and was co-signed by two Tiananmen Square student leaders, and two China Support Network leaders. There, we speak of yet more (not just a bubble) that Tom Brokaw was omitting.
John McCain is used to force the election of Barack Obama. Barack Obama forced you to pay for Wall Street's bailout.
Stop the extortion, blackmail, bribery, and division; Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, and Cynthia McKinney.
"The two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy." - Carol Quigley
You need to be careful, Obama has already said he will sue anyone that lies about him and if he isnt a sociopath he will sic his cronnies on you. Then there is McCain, well what can I say the only real difference between the two is the color of their skin and the way they spread their BS.
Im going to go with a third party because the others are crap.
See, we're truly all on the same side. These two "choices" we're given are in fact sociopathic bloodsuckers and they border on psycopathic given that they are both willing to send our military all over the globe, at our expense, to kill people who don't threaten us.
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