By Alan L. Maki as posted on FaceBook; Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 6:01am
Has anyone noticed how so many of the Democratic Party's groups here on Wall Street--- whoops, I mean FaceBook--- are going to "closed" and "secret" status?
Isn't it is nice to know that we have people who want to engage in politics in secret little groups free from dialog, discussion and debate--- what used to be referred to as "smoke-filled backrooms"--- where they can discuss and manipulate the rest of us free from being challenged?
Where any challengers to their big-business, neo-liberal thinking they proclaim to be "progressive" get "blocked" and booted out.
They want our money; they want our votes. They want us to work their phone banks. They want us to walk the neighborhoods and put up their yard signs, where their buttons and t-shirts and place their bumper-stickers on our cars.
But, when we say we want peace and jobs they bring out the duct tape to put over our mouths.
And they have the unmitigated gall to boast to the world that this is "democracy."
Now these Democrats meet in their "secret" FaceBook rooms when they aren't meeting in the smoke-filled casinos of the Indian Gaming Industry where people are forced to work at poverty wages and without any rights as a "gift" to the mobsters who own the slot machines who then turn around and make big financial contributions to their dirty, corrupt political campaigns.
Quite the system and way of doing things, eh?
Isn't it is nice to know that we have people who want to engage in politics in secret little groups free from dialog, discussion and debate--- what used to be referred to as "smoke-filled backrooms"--- where they can discuss and manipulate the rest of us free from being challenged?
Where any challengers to their big-business, neo-liberal thinking they proclaim to be "progressive" get "blocked" and booted out.
They want our money; they want our votes. They want us to work their phone banks. They want us to walk the neighborhoods and put up their yard signs, where their buttons and t-shirts and place their bumper-stickers on our cars.
But, when we say we want peace and jobs they bring out the duct tape to put over our mouths.
And they have the unmitigated gall to boast to the world that this is "democracy."
Now these Democrats meet in their "secret" FaceBook rooms when they aren't meeting in the smoke-filled casinos of the Indian Gaming Industry where people are forced to work at poverty wages and without any rights as a "gift" to the mobsters who own the slot machines who then turn around and make big financial contributions to their dirty, corrupt political campaigns.
Quite the system and way of doing things, eh?