People like this guy were right and I was way wrong.
Via Sketch, here are the words of Wilton Vought written in August 2008:
"Anyone who succeeds in becoming the presumptive Presidential nominee of either corporate party does so only with the blessing of the corporate interests who run those parties.
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"Expecting a front man for such interests to be a catalyst for substantive progressive change is akin to believing in Santa Claus. Fine for the kids, but it's time to grow up."
I believed in Santa Claus until Honduras. More fool me.
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I think in all of Latin America prior to the Honduras coup there was the hope whether one believed in Santa Claus or not that we might get presents under the tree.
Dude,,,
Not only LatAm hoping for that dream to come true; I think the whole world was hoping for a 'good' president, but a Santa Claus coming from north of the border--ie. Gringolandia?? Bearing presents--instead of bombs? Nah--nice dream though!
Obama was the last hope of the electorate for a 'good' president, especially hoped for by USians who wanted/believed/prayed for someone better than McCain/Palin.
Instead, what voters elected was more of the same old, same old--same as it ever was, dressed up in a humanistic disguise-- despite our needs to be led by someone better--and to see ourselves as a better people by having electing him. The electorate has been systematically brainwashed then betrayed to believe that there is a choice offered by the 'two-party-system', when in fact it is a false choice--that both parties are corporately managed and owned.
To think that our path to empire is not corporately-purchased in a bi-partisan manner is denial and self-delusion to the nth degree.
From its inception, the CIA was tasked on behalf of favored corporate interests, and nothing has changed that in the last 60 years--so far as I have seen.
Yes. I was hopeful, too--but it is clear to an increasing number of people all over the world--yes--even to a few in the USA like Hedges--that the lesser of two evils is still evil.
My only gripe with Hedges is he still thinks it is “stupidity”—not a plan—that has taken us to this despicable place in time.
All the best,,,locoto
Dude (and Otto),,,
Not only LatAm hoping for that dream to come true; I think the whole world was hoping for a 'good' president, but a Santa Claus coming from north of the border--ie. Gringolandia?? Bearing presents--instead of bombs? Nah--nice dream though!
Obama was the last hope of the electorate for a 'good' president, especially hoped for by USians who wanted/believed/prayed for someone better than McCain/Palin.
Instead, what voters elected was more of the same old, same old--same as it ever was, dressed up in a humanistic disguise-- despite our needs to be led by someone better--and to see ourselves as a better people by having electing him. The electorate has been systematically brainwashed then betrayed to believe that there is a choice offered by the 'two-party-system', when in fact it is a false choice--that both parties are corporately managed and owned.
To think that our path to empire is not corporately-purchased in a bi-partisan manner is denial and self-delusion to the nth degree.
From its inception, the CIA was tasked on behalf of favored corporate interests, and nothing has changed that in the last 60 years--so far as I have seen.
Yes. I was hopeful, too--but it is clear to an increasing number of people all over the world--yes--even to a few in the USA like Hedges--that the lesser of two evils is still evil.
My only gripe with Hedges is he still thinks it is “stupidity”—not a plan—that has taken us to this despicable place in time.
All the best,,,locoto
I'm a young guy who never lived through the Kennedy or lets say, Reagan years (as to use the two symbolic figure heads of each party in the US), but was it really much different back then? During two so called "era's of change?" Yes, major institutional and historic change did occur, but I am simply curious to ask Otto and anyone else who is older and wiser than myself, was the corporation really less involved in US / major developed country policies?
Bennett,,,
Not just no,,,but hell no.
It is the clear and unmistakable direction our foreign policy has been directed toward--usually at the behest of large US corporate interests literally from A-Z; from the removal of Arbenz in Guatemala in the late 40's to Pres. Zelaya earlier this year in Hondurus, and every year and president in between.
If I am wrong, please show me where.
Regards,,,locoto
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