Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "Barbara Lee Rips Trump’s Heartless Budget And $30M Parade" video.

  1. * Dems keeping progressives out - NOW and THEN: Worked like a charm with VP Wallace in the 40s * (even though then campaign financing aka official bribes were not allwoed. Then it was "only" that a lot of influental Dems were on the side of the wealthy and did not want a real progressive like Wallace have a chance at the presidency. FDR just about managed to get the nomination in 1940 ! They could not prevent FDR from implementing the reforms in the 30s, he was just too popular - but they for sure tried to return to the status quo of the haves having much more influence and paying much less taxes. Wallace could have been the presidemt after FDR died just before the ende of WW2. The Cold War with the lucrative arms race would not have happened. He would have kept good relations with China and Russia (he was not an imperialist) - that means after Stalins death in the 50s at least then there could have been a thawing in Europe Russia, (FDR it seems had a good working relationship with Stalin - Truman completely changed that within a few weeks). Truman (and the other power addicts) wanted this to be the century of U.S. power (the elites profiting mainly, the citizens of an empire do not profit much), Wallace wanted it to be the century of regular people all over the world and the U.S. taking a lead to promote that development. I heard an interesting video on the channel on Regis Tremblay - Peter Kuznick: Three False Myths Americans Believe. the myths deal with WW2 and also the role of Wallace, Truman, etc. And it seems he was also on the Real News.
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  2. The Dems are hardly better. Yes, their proposals are not as openly outrageous - they are more sneaky and can do as much damage over time as the Rs can dream of (crime bill, welfare reform under BillClinton). They manage to lose to the Rs on ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT. WHY ? because their potential base - the majority of the population btw - rightfully assumes that they are not going to do much for them. Many would not vote for the Rs - so they stay at home on election day. And THEN the Dems refuse to show some spine and to stand up against the Rs (as we can watch right now, the "resistance" is mainly rhetoric and the public engagement and justified anger about Trump is DIFFUSED in some demonstrations and your daily dose of Trump bashing on TV. The Dems would not want regular folks ACTUALLY get engaged in the political process, would they ? That process is dominated by the donors and their mony - no space for regular folks. The donors give the marching orders to the Dems, to not rock the boat too much. Those donors who ALSO finance the Dems (besides the Rs) so that they sheepdog progressives and keep them down - with shenanigans if that is necessary. And admitted - in keeping Progessives down the Dems are just doing a better job - the Rs would not be very suited for the task. Worked like a charm when they sidelined VP Wallace in the 40s (he was the second most popular politician after FDR who had a hard time getting on the ticket on his terms). The anti-progressive Dems then just about pulled it off and they had a narrow call with Sanders last year (does not matter if it was a close call, the "evil" forces prevailled that is all that matters, also see Democratic chair election and how Obama threw his influence around to get a certain result). If folks are lucky the Dems ABSTAIN from doing some harm. Well not even that, with NAFTA, with TPP promoted by Obama and HRC, with saving Wallstreet over mainstreet, with STILL NOT implementing reforms to capital "markets" (that cirucus and casino isn't a market).
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  3. And OF COURSE Obama and Hillary Clinton SAID they accept the concept of manmade climate change. And THEN they turned around and did the opposite - promoting fracking which is especially harmful. In the carbon footprint balance as well. not only poisonous and causing minor earthquakes. the prospectors and likely some obliging scientists / regulators made some optimistic ASSUMPTIONS for fracking about how much methane will leak into the atmosphere BEFORE it is burnt. Only a few % - let's say 3 or 4 % (I do not remember the exact number - in that range - as opposed to mroe than ten we acutally have). On that assumptions they made the prediction that fracked gas has lesser carbon footprint than coal. It must not be more than that small percentage for the "equation" to turn out like that, because there is an exponential effect of methane to global warming, CO2 has nothing on methane ! And meanwhile they found out the real percentage of leaked gas is in the double digits - over 10 % ( in the range of 13 if I remember correctly). So coal having allegedly a worse carbon footprint is not even true (I am not for coal - just saying, the damage is more locally done, and then of course like any other fuel when it is burnt. At least coal does not evaporate into the global atmosphere before being burnt). Fossil gas ("natural" gas or fracked gas or the methan gas from traditional gas fields like in Russia or Iran) is mostly methane. If it is burnt it contributes to CO2 levels - like any other fuel that contains carbon and reacts with oxygen in the procss of burning. - but the real problem starts when it leaks in unburnt form because it has TWENTYEIGHT TIMES the greenhouse gas capacity of CO2 - and like CO2 it is stable (the 28 times more effect is over a period of 100 years). Australian climate scientists: One female said: Her children are all learning a second language (a third they just started for one of the kids) and they got them more than one passport so that they can live in Europe or Canada (I guess NZ might also be on the list). They are meanwhile in "hope beyond reason" mode. They know what is coming and that it is going to be ugly - and of all DEVELOPED countries Australia is going to be hit hardest. (the video is on youtube and not long - nothing conveys the point like folks preparing their future family life). Climate scientists reveal their fears for the future www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=jIy0t5P0CUQ
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