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To: tejek who wrote (358790)	11/15/2007 7:13:00 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572365

"30% of the population" of America are rednecks with redneck values. It's all I can figure.

To: tejek who wrote (358790)	11/15/2007 8:06:17 PM
From: Threshold	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572365

Your corporate media is feeding you a mix of polarizing emotional issues to divide the populace and get them fighting among themselves. It's called divide and conquer. Look at SI... it's full of professional provocateurs stirring up animosity between the sides. Both parties are bought and paid for by large corporations and special interest groups. So you have a smoke and mirrors democracy where both parties are funded by basically the same money sources. It's a pretty simple case of giving the people an apparent choice and then controlling both of those choices. In the past two elections the evangelicals and rednecks were fooled into voting over moral issues like abortion, gay rights and family values, and in the last election they were fear mongered into supporting a candidate who was going to save them from a Muslim invasion. (I guess they were going to float themselves across the oceans on camels cause they sure as hell don't have a navy or an airforce of any size in any of the Muslim countries.) The rest of the world is wondering why if the US is fighting a war, the borders remain wide open. In the second world war borders were sealed. It makes it look like a war of convience for profit taking purposes. The taxpayer funds it and the military/industrial/oil complex cashes in. Now while all of this has been going on, your middle class has been raped by corporate outsourcing, and illegal, government sponsored immigration. They've been suckered in way over their heads by a Federal Reserve induced housing boom fueled by deceptive lending practices, adjustable rate mortgages and real estate appraisal fraud. The impact of over a trillion dollars wasted on war hasn't been felt yet, because it is off budget for some unfathomable reason. Government stats like CPI, GDP, PPI etc are manufactured to hide the real state of the economy, and you will never see the party not in power ever raise these issues, as it is a permanent tool that must never be questioned. It's a sacred legacy handed down to the next ruling party regardless of which one wins. The rich get richer while the masses argue over things that are non critical, or will never be changed regardless of which party wins. Lou Dobbs gets it, and so does Jack Cafferty and I wonder how long those two are going to last. I wouldn't be flying if I were them, and I hope they have some serious bodyguards to boot. They attack both parties and rightfully so. Depending on their orientation your countrymen seem to worship the Dems and Repubs with the same fervor that they do their favorite sports teams, and that is downright dangerous. Sports teams are harmless. Political parties aren't. I hear things like "I am a lifelong republican" or I am a lifetime democrat". Talk about being stuck in a hole with a large shovel LOL.