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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Please don't think your vote won't make a difference!....

Digby has a wonderful post today by David Atkins: "In case there was any doubt which party is the party of plutocracy."  Please read it all by going to the link at the beginning of this paragraph, but I especially like the last two paragraphs:

As long as these people are willing to spend billions of dollars stealing elections and can get away with doing so under cover of total darkness, they don't really care how many people march in the streets. The little people mean nothing to them. And even if worst comes to worst, it still won't matter to them. After all, it's not as if the villains will be anywhere in the remote vicinity of the revolution even if it were to ever come, which it won't. They'll already be safely in the arms of Dubai, Nassau, or any other welcoming city whose country has low taxes and little will to extradite. Armed revolutions usually accomplish little except the slaughter of the innocent.

The alternative, of course, is to vote and fight like hell within the confines of the democratic system. Even if the choices aren't necessarily between good and evil, non-participation in the process is inexcusable when it's so abundantly clear which side is the far greater evil.
 

4 comments:

  1. Yes, one of that group just bought an entire Hawaiian Island, all for himself, Lanai.
    http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/story/2012-06-20/hawaiian-island-larry-ellison/55724848/1

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  2. i started to answer this, hattie, but i got a skype call, and now i'm exhausted. about buying up large pieces of land for oneself. oy. we've been down this road before....when we took over the country from the people who owned it before us--the native americans.

    more later!

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  3. Excellent commentary! Lots of Calif. land was taken from Mexicans who had owned it for generations but had none of the newly declared necessary ownership paperwork documenting their rights. As for Hawaii -- about those missionaries......

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  4. Excellent commentary! Lots of Calif. land was taken from Mexicans who had owned it for generations but had none of the newly declared necessary ownership paperwork documenting their rights. As for Hawaii -- about those missionaries......

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