Comments by "Animal Farm" (@animalfarm7467) on "Thom Hartmann Program" channel.

  1. Trump is a liar!? Yes he is a liar, he is a deceiver, a capitalist and a businessman in the modern world; what do you expect. We all live knowing that people in foreign nations are dying to prop up our lifestyle. This is not the time to get righteous. Who do you think you are; Walter Vincent Grant, Peter Popoff, or Jimmy Bakker. We all know we exist at the expense of others. If we didn't, Native Americans would be the landlords. So Trump admits that he bought politicians. Glad to see that he is transparent about previous dealings. I wonder what are in the speeches that Shillary gave to Goldman Sachs? Hillary is a criminal but with more political savvy to manipulate the rubes than Trump. Looking into the political clothes hamper, I would prefer a muddy sleaze over an excrement covered psychopathic criminal anytime. Hillary does not lie all the time, “We came, we saw, he died” and she takes pride in being supported by the child killer Madeline Albright. If you don’t want real change with Bernie, there may be a slim chance of change with Trump, but the chance of change with Hillary is zero.
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  2. Notice when Hartmann is talking about Bernie Sanders, he labels his video, "Return of Communism?" What kind of message do you think Hartmann is attempting to send?
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  3. Imagine the disgust the American people must have had in Hillary to take a chance on Donald’s campaign promises. Well, their gamble didn’t pay off; Trump has turned out to be just another oligarchical puppet like Obama, Bush and Clinton. If the oligarchs would only allow Bernie to run; and yes, people in hell want ice water.
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  4.  @auntiebobbolink  : After removing the draft, the government then utilizes the corrupt media, sport, poverty and desperation to bribe the poor, the asylum seekers, and the oppressed into their imperial military. You can see military recruiters daily in southern states hovering like vultures around shopping malls looking intently for a sign of weakness.
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  5.  @auntiebobbolink  : So what to do about it? - Find a way out of the two-party duopoly that has destroyed any semblance of actual democracy. Media outlets like MSNBC (and Hartmann) will always attempt to induce fear and push you towards the Democratic Part just as FOX and their cronies will also attempt to induce fear and push you towards the Republican Party. This is just a game of Good-Cop/Bad-Cop to keep you off balance and to continue swinging the political pendulum to maintain Wall Street's monopolistic control. Have you noticed whether it’s Bush or Obama or Trump or Biden, little has actually ever changed? Your real enemy is the plutocrats, their corporations, and their financial sector control. What you see on television is just politicians from both parties in a choreographed stage show to give the impression of an adversarial relationship, but it’s only a Hollywood production to create the illusion of choice and democracy. So what to do about it? - The last time this happened was in the late 1920 and early 30s, but there is no longer a Communist Party, a Socialist Party, or Union movements that can threaten the hegemony of today's plutocrats. And the plutocrats and their domestic henchmen (FBI) have made short work of any corporate resistance since those early days. Since the 1933 New Deal, the plutocrats, their federal henchmen, and their political minions in both parties and in all branches of government have implemented a campaign to turn words like “Union”, “Socialist” and "Collective" into pejoratives. And thanks to Hollywood and other media propaganda, they have done an excellent job. That treachery must be undone and resurrecting Collectives and Unions will take some time. In the meantime, try to create your own small movement and stop playing that perpetual game of political Good-Cop/Bad-Cop. Avoid those (like MSNBC, CNN, FOX or Hartmann) whose job it is to keep you in fear of the “Russians”, or the “Chinese”, or “Trump”, or “Biden”; avoid those who use remnants of the McCarthy era strategies like "Reds under the bed" or "Duck and Cover" to do so. Once you understand it's just one big psyop, you will be liberated. This is just a strategy to induce fear exactly the same as was used by the plutocrats and their federal minions (FBI) in the 1950s & 60s to redirect your attention from what is important. So don't be one of those who Gore Vidal was thinking about when he coined the phrase "The United States of Amnesia". So what to do about it? - Don't fund or vote for either party and look for a real alternative; possibly a party whose policies more closely represent your needs. You may consider voting for a "third party" as being a waste of time, but if enough follow this will eventually work. How many times can you be fooled into believing the perpetual lies of the oscillating establishment candidates (Clinton (D), Bush (R), Obama (D), Trump (R), and now Biden (D)) as they scam you into perpetuating the status quo? It will take some time to reach critical mass, but spread the message and educate as many as possible. If there is one thing the plutocrats and their controlled media (including Hartmann) fear is the possibility of both progressives and conservatives coming together against the corruption. Think about how well the plutocrats’ Divide-and-Conquer strategies have worked since Eisenhower was president. Always remember, the job of these traitors is to ensure they maintain control by manipulating your thoughts using techniques like stimulating primordial tribal emotions, and then setting you at each other's throats.
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  6.  @nil981  : Yes, but for a capitalist, psychopaths are the perfect choice. Psychopaths aren't hindered by ethics or emotions; they are naturals at lying and manipulating; and in the case or presidents, they have no qualms about killing for profit so the corporations that have funded them can turn a profit. For the Military Industrial and Intelligence Complex to exist and manufacture weapons to kill for profit, it needs an army of psychopaths. So for corporation executive or politician alike, the psychopath is the perfect choice in a corrupt immoral world. Obama wouldn't lose any sleep over killing a wedding party in the Middle East from a drone strike; Madeline Albright wouldn't lose any sleep when she killed half a million Iraqi children through sanctions - she even said in a 60 Minutes interview, "It was worth it". When Hillary was responsible for the bayonet enema and killing of of Gaddafi, all she could say was, "We came, we saw, he died"; now that's a real psychopath.
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  7. Thomas, you still appear to be confused by causality. “How Corporate Media Led To Authoritarianism” is the wrong statement. Consolidation of the Media has been an intentional ongoing process for decades by the plutocrats to gain power, influence and wealth; and to keep it. The selling out by “Progressive” and “Conservative” plutocratic governments around the planet in all facets of Neoliberal policy has resulted in the World we see today. What led to authoritarianism is capitalism; the strategies used along the way by the plutocrats (corporate personhood, media ownership, lobbying, etc., etc.) are just the tools they used to achieve their goal after the Powell Memorandum and the bipartisan scam of the 1980s and 90s. Saying “Corporate Media Led to Authoritarianism” is like saying the corrupt Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton led to Trump. Yes, presenting the American people with such a corrupt individual and giving them no other option may have contributed to Trump, but you have to also consider the previous decades of “Third Way” bipartisan corruption that created the corrupt and devastating economic environment that eventually led to Trump. Maybe it’s time you asked Chris Hedges or even the flexible Thomas Frank back on your show for a more balanced view.
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  8. Apart from Cuba, China and Vietnam, it’s difficult to name a “Socialist” country on the planet; and even China is what is usually called State Capitalist. The Anglo-American plutocrats and their minions (CIA, FBI) would never allow a purely "Socialist" country to exist as it will expose the exploitation and oppression of the capitalist system. Remember in 1917 during the Bolshevik Revolution, the western capitalists of Britain, US, and Japan were the first to invade the Soviet Union with 10,000 troops – it didn’t succeed. However, the plutocrats and their minions (CIA, FBI) will allow capitalist countries with varying amounts of socialist policies to exist as the plutocrats are slowly eroding these socialist policies (NHS in Britain) around the world as we speak. Take a look at the CIA overthrow of Greece in the 1960s or the CIA backing of the slaughter of half a million Indonesian socialists under Suharto, or the US ongoing trade embargo of Cuba. Understand the "Socialist" Venezuela that Obama labeled as a "Threat to US National Security" is a capitalist country. The only reason Washington continues to label them as "Socialist" is because Venezuela has the largest oil reserves on the planet and the Anglo-America plutocrats want the oil. Washington has already stolen the CITGO Oil Company from the Venezuelans and England has stolen their gold, but as the Venezuelan people suffer under US sanctions in an attempt to install a puppet regime; the plutocrats’ focus is on what's under the ground in Venezuela - oil.
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  9. I'm always amazed how these fools believe only the "Right Wing" media is controlled by the plutocrats and the "Left" media is somehow untouched by corruption. How Maddow only speaks the truth. Maddow isn't paid $30K a day to tell the truth; like Clinton and Buttigieg, this Oxford Rhodes scholar is paid to lie. Nearly all media is corrupt and it counts on the fading faculties of those who give mindless credence to the content, not to pick up on the plutocrats' deception. It's amazing the level of treachery the plutocrats can achieve, when you have a gullible and fearful audience to manipulate. I’m sure Hartmann can take a lesson from the plutocrats’ strategy.
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  10. Hartmann, if you want to understand the National Defense Authorization Act, especially Section 10.21, you should engage the services of a real Progressive, Chris Hedges. Chris will explain about how he was attempting to legally stop Obama effectively repealing the Posse Comitatus act to stop the government using the military on the streets of the US; only to be thwarted by Obama on the basis of “no standing”. So if you want a real Progressive to expose the corrupt Democratic Party and the DNC instead of scamming your audience with those fake Progressives you will find in those fake Progressive institutions dotted around Washington, maybe it’s time you gave Chris a call. And just remember, when it comes to your favorite Military Industrial Complex candidate, Warren never met a funding bill she didn’t pass. Just as the Democrats passed the Tax Cuts you appeared to be so furious about, or passed the additional $80 billion addition to the Defense Budget, or even gave no resistance to the confirmation of Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. So forget about these “Progressive” scammers you bring on from all these fake left institutions; the Republicrats Party is one big con and those poor fools that haven’t yet realized the truth about the one-party state are the target. The voters have yet to discover the Military Budget is one of the most effective methods for the plutocrats to steal from the US taxpayer. So Hartmann, what’s your point? I bet before the start of the primaries you will be pleading with your meager audience to vote for a Democrat that supported the expanded Military Budget or had some hand in passing the NDAA. How does it feel to be a hypocrite? The system has been designed by the plutocrats so the voters have no other choice than select what they trained to perceive as “the lesser of two evils”. If your audience would return in ten years, you will be presenting the same old argument. So vote all you want, but the corporate government will never change. The Democratic Party and the DNC has been designed so a real Progressive will never take power.
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  11. The only strategy the Liberals (not Progressives) have left is the old Identity Politics to divide-and-conquer and Hartman is really wearing this strategy to the bone. These failed Liberals (Neoliberals & Neoconservatives) have no policies apart from screwing the people and imperial wars they can commit to, and no foundation for their ideology; they are no different to the Republicans that everyone knows works for the interests of the plutocrats. Sorry Hartmann, but by now most have worked out the Democratic Party's actual function is to stop Progressives taking power in Washington; they would far sooner see Trump in office than accept a real Progressive candidate in the primaries as the Republicans are also working for the same plutocratic interests as these Liberals. And if you remember how Charles Koch recommended his base should vote for Hillary in 2016 when Koch was unsure of Trump's loyalties, it appears the Republicans would sooner have a Liberal in power than Trump who at the time appeared to be committed to work for the people. Of course all that changed when Trump took office, was found to be just another plutocratic puppet, exposed his real intent, and was surrounded by Koch minions - Pence, Pompeo, and Rubio, etc. etc.
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  12. If you want to predict the future, listen to the words Biden spoke to Wall Street, "If I'm elected, nothing will change".
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  13. Have you ever considered the possibility, all the current “critical” issues are just designed to distract? Consider the Border Wall when history shows both the oligarchs’ Democratic and Republican Parties pushed for border protection and broke up families in doing so. Could the declaration of a “National Emergency” along with the fence and the plethora of minority issues be just another smokescreen to a more significant atrocity? Now that the people have been awakened to the atrocity in Venezuela by the mainstream media the coverage is starting to wane; I expect they don’t want people thinking too much about the false narrative presented. They don’t want people asking; if the Venezuelan people are in difficulty, why does the US still have sanctions on the Venezuelan economy? If Venezuelan trade is also threatening the Venezuelan economy, why does the US have sanctions on Venezuelan oil exports? Have people seen Bolton on CNN saying how the annexing of Venezuelan Oil would be good for the US economy. As if he was saying to the American people; you allow us to steal Venezuela’s oil with the help of US oil companies to maintain US economic growth and you will also benefit. It isn’t often we see the reality of Empire directly spill over onto the people; it isn’t often a member of the Fourth Reich admits to outright theft, so you should listen carefully. The majority of the American people may allow themselves to be bribed to allow the Fourth Reich to commit atrocities but they will never see a cent of the spoils; it will all go to the oligarchs. When Trump said about the invasion of Iraq, “we should have taken the oil” and "to the winner go the spoils"; at least he was being honest about the intent of his masters, the oligarchs. So when you listen to the scam of Bolton to send food aid to Venezuela, realize “Food Aid” is also a euphemism for leverage. The only people this food will be feeding are the Venezuelan oligarchs who back the Washington Coup while they push the majority further into despair. I suspect they believe if enough of the population leaves, they have a better chance at biasing an election in their puppet’s favor. So when you see someone like Andrew Boyle from the Liberty and “National Security” Program of the Brennan Center and New York University School of Law, you should remember Obama declared Venezuela a “threat” to US “National Security” and everyone should ask themselves why? I have to question Andres Boyle’s commitment to prosecuting “War Crimes”; when Bolton has clearly stated his intent to steal Venezuelan oil and not a word is said. Is the Brennan Center just like “Food Aid”; only a tool to be used as leverage in a political game for booty?
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  14.  @13thbiosphere  : I'm not sure about the "Freedom" dividend. Every time I hear the word "Freedom", I hear alarm bells. Remember, the US military exports "Freedom & Democracy". I have seen their democracy and so you see why you should question "Freedom". Something else you should consider is your "Freedom Dividend" was originally promoted by the Austrian-Libertarian Milton Friedman in the 1980s. I'm still working on the mechanics of that scam. Just take a look at what he and the Austrian-Libertarian James Buchanan have done to the Chilean economy and Constitution during Pinochet. The current riots are a direct result of Friedman, Buchanan and the CIA "intervention". So every time I hear one of the words, "Freedom, Liberty, Prosperity" all I hear are alarm bells signalling a trap ahead.
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  15.  @normankeena  : With such an erratic thought process, disjointed narrative, and incoherent sentence structure, and what appears to be the result of McCarthy induced fear, it sounds like you're either a John Bircher, a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, or at least you know someone at the Mises Institute. Say hello to Charles Koch for me if you get a chance and leave a flower at Joe McCarthy's grave the next time you visit. If you wish to understand the real threat to democracy, may I suggest the book "Democracy in Chains" by Duke history professor Nancy MacLean or even "How Corporate America Invented Christian America" by Princeton history professor Kevin M. Kruse. Those may set you onto a path to reality. Don't worry, neither of those academics have been influenced by the oligarchs' money.
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  16. What Hartmann won’t tell you is the history of the United States is a fabrication. Many people now understand that Columbus and his family were nothing more than slave traders. Washington wasn’t some honorable gentleman; he was the wealthiest man in the country and made his wealth slaughtering the Native Americans and selling their land to slave owners for their plantations. You have to get past this Hollywood and State education fabrication of American history. Modern plutocrats are still slaughtering for profit, but today it’s slaughtering those in foreign lands and then stealing their resources. As for Trump, he is also a fabrication. Trump has no say in what happens; the plutocrats behind the scenes who own both the Democratic and Republican Parties are the ones who pull the strings. Trump is just some petulant imbecile the plutocrats found hosting a game show and they now use him for distraction while they commit genocide around the planet and steal what remains of the wealth of the US people. The “Impeachment”, like “Russiagate” is also fabrication; it’s just intentional misdirection. Trump has been used as a target to give the moronic public something to hate while the plutocrats screw them six ways from Sunday. If you really want to understand US politics, may I suggest you read Howard Zinn and listen to the comedic works of the late, great George Carlin. Now there is a comedian who would put any contemporary political scientist to shame.
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  17. Again we see Hartmann defending the corporate democrats when Alex Lawson said 8:06 "Why the democrats in the Senate didn't do everything in their power to block these guys (Republicans) is beyond me". Hartmann immediately responded with the fabricated excuse 8:11 "Because they didn't have enough votes". Lawson then explained what Hartmann already knew, "They could have bottled them up in committee". The fifth columnists like Hartmann working covertly and deceptively for Wall Street interests will eventually see the end of real progressives like AOC and anti-imperialists like Tulsi Gabbard.
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  18. Notice how Hartmann now admits Clinton betrayed his constituents by destroying Social Security, implementing NAFTA, and deregulating Wall Street so the rich could exploit the many. Hartmann then goes on to tell you 05:42 “And Obama did restore the reputation of our country after 8 years of torturers – Bush & Cheney”. It was Obama and his “Clinton” Secretary of State that destroyed Libya and turned it into an “Open Air Slave Auction”; it was Obama that asked the people of Flint, Michigan for a “Glass of Water”; it was Obama that started seven wars and dropped more bombs than George Bush; it was Obama that oversaw the CIA Operation “Timber Sycamore” that killed 600,000 Syrians and caused millions to flee; it was Obama that applied sanctions on Venezuela that killed 100,000 people and caused many more to flee; and it was Obama that said about prosecuting the Bush war criminals (Bush & Cheney), “Look forward, not back”. And now Hartmann is attempting to sell you on the lying imbecile Biden as the new hope. Hartmann is just setting the stage for a return to the status quo. When are people going to learn that politics in the US is two parties owned by the same plutocrats covertly working together to screw the Working Class majority?
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  19. Watching Hartmann promote the interests (Capitalism) of the plutocrats is interesting, but far more interesting is the recent New York Times headline, "Democratic Leaders Willing to Risk Party Damage to Stop Bernie Sanders" by Lisa Lerer and Reid J. Epstein; Published on Feb. 28, 2020. The most amazing thing about the article is this undemocratic scam is now so obvious to the majority; the New York Times was able to publish many of the facts. This clearly shows that Hartmann and his crony media establishment would prefer to destroy Democracy and have Superdelegates kneecap Bernie yet again, than have Democracy upheld and the voice of the people heard. The irony in all of this is; if the plutocrats and their minions and shills (e.g. Hartmann) use the Superdelegates to remove Bernie, they will ensure a victory for Trump. Even a whiff of another Scam by the Democratic Establishment would send many who are totally disgusted with the process into the arms of Trump. Have you ever considered this may be intentional on the part of shills like Hartmann? The only reasonable conclusion one could come to is the puppets (e.g. Hartmann) of the plutocrats would much prefer Trump to Sanders. So why do we hear Hartmann sometimes give tentative acceptance to Sanders; could he be lying? This is an interesting choice on the part of Hartmann given the exhaustive amount of "Russiagate" and "Indictment" BS he made you sit through and ignorantly applaud. All those Trump Hate videos Hartmann produced and now Hartmann's precious Democratic Establishment, his DNC friends (Tom Perez), and his Superdelegate associates are consciously planning the reinstatement of Trump over the will of the people. Do you get the slightest whiff of deception here? Or maybe a hint of hypocrisy? Always remember, the true function of the Democratic Establishment is to ensure a real progressive never wields power in the Oval Office; and the true function of the bipartisan Republicrat (Republican + Democrat) establishment is to ensure the perpetuation of the plutocratic status quo.
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  20. Hartmann, if you keep looking at the political world as just Republican vs. Democrat, all you are going to do is confuse your audience. Eventually you will have to acknowledge both sides are corrupt and work for the plutocrats. Contemporary politics is very simple; it’s not “Left” vs. “Right” or “Republican” vs. “Democrat”; these words have lost nearly all meaning. “Left” can mean anything from an actual Marxist, Communist, or even Trotskyite to Barack Obama who describes himself as a “Moderate Republican”. And the narrative around the “Right” side of politics has become just as distorted; notice how that a Trotskyite is now likened to a fascist Neocon. The best way to resolve this is to change the way you look at the political spectrum. The plutocrats want you to see the political spectrum divided vertically with “Left” and “Right”; clearly designated so both sides can be distracted by fighting among themselves. You audience should view the political spectrum divided horizontally with “Haves” and “Have-Nots” clearly designated. This is a “Class War” pure and simple; and until the people come to grips with this fact, nothing will change. While the plutocrats own and control the media and all branches of government and infiltrate all the Progressive institutions with their subversive agents (Hartmann) to corrupt any Progressive success, nothing will change. Know your enemy! Hartmann, always be wary of those who incessantly promote the "Left" vs. "Right" argument when it is clear that the "Left" & "Right" have the same objectives. Always be wary of those who intentionally use all their time pushing the "Left" vs. "Right" argument so little time remains to analyze the actual bipartisan political system. Always remember, misdirection is the preferred tool of the Plutocrat's minions. Notice how there has never been a public discussion in any "Left" institution of how the majority must have felt about the 2016 Democratic Party for for the corrupt Luddite imbecile Trump to have won the election?
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  21. Don't hesitate; these responses may be closer to reality that much of the narrative you see around you. It's not Pompeo or Trump or anyone visible to the camera that calls the shots; the real Imperial criminals will rarely be seen. And that's just the way they like it; giving orders from the shadows and letting the media blame the puppet fools that reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Mercer and Adelson along with the Zionist AIPAC would be where I would start to look; or the rush to war could be for the interests of other Plutocrats unknown to the majority.
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  22. Dominick Palella: It is only recently that I have had to acknowledge you are correct when you said, "Republican and Democratic voters have few differences as well". I now see a large component of self-proclaimed Democrats just as confused as those poor individuals who watch Alex Jones or the multitude of similar YouTube sites, follow and support Koch Libertarian economics, and unknowingly accept a cult that exploits their ignorance. And there is enough ignorance to go around; most of these individuals don’t realize they are just two sides of the same programmed coin. Your idea of re-education is sorely needed but sadly it could be futile. These “Democrats” have been slowly programmed over decades by this and similar outlets. They have been deceptively taught by individuals like Thomas to consider politics as a binary sport; as if they were rooting for a side in a football match. It is sad to watch these individuals supporting a candidate like the War Criminal Hillary when the woman promoting her (Albright) was responsible for the deaths of half a million Iraqi children. Admittedly many of these individuals might not be as sociopathic and psychopathic as Albright but for the ones that are just misinformed followers who suppress the memory, subconsciously it must manifest in a number of detrimental ways. So with individuals so damaged they support War Criminals for president, I give little hope for re-education. They appear to be proud of their ignorance and doomed to respond in programmed, emotional, irrational rhetoric and without any capacity for critical thought.
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  23. Yes, but Hartmann's strategy is McCarthy Red Baiting to create fear in his audience so he can sell them on maintaining the status quo. It goes against Hartmann's interests to factually present what Marx wrote. His strategy is to conflate socialism and "State Capitalism" to create a false narrative and fear in the minds of the public to subtly justify the "Free Market". Capitalists will always react when they see a competitive system on the horizon as it could compromise their ability to exploit. Britain, the US, and Japan sent troops to Russia during the revolution to help the White Cossacks against the anti-capitalist Bolshevik “threat”. The Capitalist plutocrats have always done everything they could to defeat any alternate system no matter where it originates. History has shown US and British plutocrats even backed Hitler and pushed for Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union.
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  24. Yes, Warren appears to be the real deal and she is hitting all the right notes; Wall Street corruption and greed; the oligarchs' assault on unions and the labor market, but I'm still unsure where she stands on military spending, foreign policy, and Globalism. So I would like to hear what Perez has to say about Warren. Hartmann, you must remember Perez; he was on your show recently and you were promoting his efforts. I assume you know Perez is Chair of the DNC. I assume you know the DNC just passed the following rule with respect to candidates seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination in the 2020 presidential election: At the time the candidate announces their candidacy publicly, they must publicly affirm they are a Democrat. Each candidate perusing the Democratic nomination shall affirm, in writing, to the National Chairperson of the Democratic Committee (Perez), that they: • Are members of the Democratic Party. • Will accept the Democratic nomination. • Will run to serve as a member of the Democratic Party. I do have some questions about Warren’s intent, but they may just be due to her reactions to the ducking and swerving so many candidates have to do to keep out of the crosshairs of the oligarchs mainstream media. In general, Warren appears to be the real deal. On the govtrack website, Warren’s score from the Human Rights Campaign is 100%; her score from American Civil Liberties Union is 94%; excellent. And now the more important and telling scorecard; Warren’s score from Americans for Prosperity is 5% and especially her score from FreedomWorks is 0%. So yes, Warren appears to the genuine article; the original funders of the Clinton-Gore “Third Way” New Democrats that Hartmann so admires, and brought you Wall Street Deregulation, NAFTA, and the destruction of the Union Movement, Charles and David Koch, have given Warren a score of “0”. You can’t get a better recommendation than that! So the introduction of this DNC neutering rule after Sanders debacle invokes many questions. Why introduce this rule as it clearly infers voters are now voting for the policies of the Democratic Party and not those of the candidate? And what does it mean to “serve as a member of the Democratic Party”. So Hartmann, you had the opportunity to ask Perez these questions many times after this rule came into existence in June, why didn’t you? Since then Perez has been on your show five times. These are the questions that jump out at you begging to be asked, but you appeared to ignore the relevant and run with your usual rants to either induce fear or to chastise the puppet Trump. Yes, the last time Perez was on your show in late November, you spent all the time berating Trump; your usual strategy of distraction. And in this tirade you conflated Anthropogenic Climate Change, the loss of jobs and many other symptoms, but never questioned the cause – Oligarchy and the loss of democracy. Don’t you think questioning the Chair of the DNC that implemented this rule is relevant? Instead of that all I ever hear is a non-confrontational discussion on issues of effect; the cause of these issues is never seriously debated. I see Hartmann as the Ron Paul of the Corporate Democrats. Hartmann is a Corporate Democrat working for the oligarchs; he will never bring truth to power just as Paul will never criticize his Koch masters or the John Birch Society. They construct an environment of mutual admiration and only produce puff pieces, sickening mutual admiration and any criticism of the causes or the treacherous Perez is off the table. These deceivers are there as controlled opposition; they pretend to criticize the system and in doing so, produce propaganda to perpetuate the system. It can be a lucrative scam if you have enough rubes watch and believe it. Just ask Alex Jones!
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  25. This caller appears to be concerned about what comes from plutocratically controlled establishment religion. Doesn’t he realize the plutocrats have a history of using the forum of institutionalized religion to manipulate the rubes? You will find an accurate account of this in the book, “One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America”, by Princeton history professor Kevin Kruse. Kruse wrote extensively about how after the New Deal, the plutocrats recruited religious leaders to spread their scam by conflating Christianity and capitalism. This started around 1940 with Reverend James W. Fifield Jr. and has progressed through to the Graham dynasty of today. The plutocrats recruited Fifield to sell their message when most religious leaders saw it for the scam it was. In fact, those religious leaders less inclined to be influenced by dollars called this religious scam after Cellophane, because it was a DuPont product and you could see right through it. So, you can see the strategy of using institutionalized religion to manipulate the rubes is as old as; well, as religion.
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  26.  @judica8873  : Oligarch: A member of an oligarchy. A very rich business leader with a great deal of political influence. Oligarchy: The political term, oligarchy, comes to English from the Greek with its meaning intact - a form of government run by a small number of people such as wealthy landowners, royalty or powerful military figures. e.g. Jimmy Carter: U.S. Is an ‘Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery’: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jimmy-carter-u-s-is-an-oligarchy-with-unlimited-political-bribery-63262/ Puppet: A puppet is a person who has a title indicating possession of political power, but who, in reality, is controlled by outside individuals or forces.
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  27. The current democratic process works well for the oligarchs if (and only if) there are only two parties in the race. Introduce a viable third party and much of the oligarchs’ control structure falls apart. Sure, a viable third party would be difficult to create as we have seen what the two party oligarch controlled media does to a candidate the oligarchs reject (Bernie Sanders); and we have seen what the corporate two party national congresses (DNC, RNC) does to a candidate the oligarchs reject (Podesta), so what makes you think the future will be any different? Have you ever considered the Corporate Democrats allow the rising progressivism within the party for two reasons: 1) While the people continue to vote for a candidate within the Democratic Party, this will always suppress the chance of a third party option and the wasted vote argument will always be played. 2) While the votes flow into the Corporate Democratic camp, the oligarchs still have control of the candidates. As the politician William M. Tweed said, “I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating”. I see people have short memories and the political scam that rejected the voice of the people (Henry Wallace) in the 1944 DNC convention appears to be long forgotten. In fact, much of this treachery against the American people has been rewritten to remove the oligarchs’ influence and treachery at that convention. Those who give the Democratic Party credence appear to be ignorant of those times and maybe some research is needed to refresh fabricated narrative history with the truth.
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  28. But you should be listening to Biden when he honestly tells his benefactors , "If I'm elected, nothing will change." and "I won't ban fracking". Remember, Biden was deputy to Obama who expanded oil drilling twice when asked by Shell. Be grateful Biden gave you some snippets of honesty; most of the time he's telling you lies about his university results or his stance on Iraq or the Crime Bill. Remember, this is his second time running for president; he was forced to quit in 1988 when a credible media exposed his compound lying and plagiary. Ah, a credible media; I can still see that anachronism disappearing in the rear view mirror. When it comes to honesty and Biden, you have to take it when you can get it!
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  29. Thomas, you still don’t understand; it’s not who is running for nomination in the primaries, it’s who the oligarchs choose for the presidential election. You can tell by who they allow into the presidential debates. Remember when only Hillary and Donald were allowed in the last debate and Jill Stein was thrown in jail for her attempt to participate. Clearly Clinton was the oligarchs’ choice for the Democratic Party and Trump was the oligarchs’ choice for the Republican Party; the only two parties allowed in the race. Remember Thomas, only accepted oligarchs puppets are allowed to run for president. So Thomas, by now you should realize the US democracy is a scam. The number of ways the oligarchs have to corrupt the electoral process is vast and these oligarchs will be pulling all the levers should something not go their way. You can ask the voters who they would like to see running for president or you could ask the voters; given the choice of the oligarchs’ two puppets, which one would they select. They are totally different questions with a high probability of mutually exclusive outcomes.
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  30. In the last election cycle, the plutocrats used WikiLeaks' Podesta emails to show the corruption within the Democratic establishment forcing many into Trump's camp. Now the Iowa caucus has again exposed the criminality of the Democratic establishment again herding many into Trump's camp. What the Democratic establishment is implicitly telling the people is, if you vote for a people's candidate (Bernie) we will crash the system and give the race to Trump. Don't you think the criminality of the Democratic establishment in Iowa was a little too obvious? Are they really that incompetent? Or are they telling you that if you don't vote for an establishment candidate, we will force Trump upon you? After all, the Democratic establishment has spent years making their constituents hate Trump for just this occasion.
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  31. Yes, it’s sad and inconvenient Roosevelt died before he could implement the second “Bill of Rights”. So why did Roosevelt betray the people and undermine the true progressive Henry Wallace who had the majority of public support by allowing the DNC to install the unknown haberdasher Harry Truman; a deed for which he was berated by Eleanor Roosevelt? Given his political history, I’m sure Wallace would have had no opposition to “Roosevelt’s” second “Bill of Rights” and would have pushed its implementation. The undermining of the popular Henry Wallace has some similarities to the undermining of Bernie Sanders in 2016; I can almost equate some of the roles between 1944 and 2016; for example, Jimmy Byrnes played a similar role to John Podesta or Wassermann Schultz; the only difference was the plutocrats of the day were a couple of generations removed. There are names like Edwin Pauley (DNC Treasurer), Robert Hannegan (DNC Chairman), and George Allen (Secretary of the Democratic Party) that come to mind when comparing the treachery to the 2016 DNC. This reminds me of the old joke. How do you know when a politician is lying – his lips are moving. So many times politicians are idolized for statements they have made but the promises are never realized. The Obama “Hope and Change” narrative comes to mind. It is usually the gullible majority that tends to believe these statements pumped into the lexicon by interested parties, and an inquisitive minority that actually knows the truth.
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  32. This is what happens when you give the people nowhere to turn. The reason for Trump is a combination of things but mostly it is because the population has no options. If you give the population the choice of the war criminal Hillary Clinton who destroys the democratic process (Bernie), you are pushing people away from the Democratic Party. And the Democratic Party itself, with its "Third Way" origin in Charles Koch, its sycophantic alignment with Wall Street, its attack on unions, and its utilization of Identity Politics where the hypocrisy of their boutique and limousine concern for the oppressed is only to manipulate the gullible fools that blindly follow, this hypocrisy makes one vomit. The Democratic Party, that backs Trump's attack on the sovereign rights of Venezuela, and would sooner allow Trump in office than to allow real progressives take part in the future of the country, is a spent force to anyone with principle. If you want to know the reason for Trump, the answer is simple - Hillary Clinton, the DNC and the Democratic Party.
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  33. Liberal fascism in Israel and around the western world is accelerating; sit back and watch your freedoms disappear as the AIPAC puppets (politicians) legislate against the first amendment.
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  34. The real crisis in the US is very simple; it’s not the Dog and Pony Shows you see on Hartmann or MSNBC or for that matter, on most of the mainstream or alternative media designed to distract fools from reality; the real crisis as Jimmy Carter said is fake democracy and Oligarchy. I have been told I should use the work Plutocracy instead of oligarchy as Plutocracy best describes rich oligarchs that have replaced all functional parts of a peoples’ government. So yes, the US is a plutocracy in which the plutocrats now control all branches of government and the Fourth Estate, and the entertainment media that feeds subtle propaganda to the people in very creative and deceptive ways. The plutocrats use the weaknesses of the people (apathy, ignorance, greed, hubris, fear) against the people, and in doing so effective steer public opinion. So when you say its war or anthropogenic climate change that is the real threat, you should always look at the instigator of that threat. The US doesn’t really care about the Venezuelan people; as Bolton openly said when we gain access to Venezuelan oil it will help the US economy. And don’t look to other countries to help as most are being controlled by Washington. Countries like Japan, Australia, and much of the EU is controlled by the same Plutocrats that control Washington. And don’t just look at Neoliberalism in isolation; you should also include Globalism in this package. Not only has this plutocracy corrupted democracies in many western nations, they also control the politics and the economies of these nations as well. When the plutocrats have gained this much power it’s a long road back to democracy for the majority. So while people like Hartmann continue to push the puppets of the plutocrats (Clinton, Pelosi, etc,) on the people, little will change. It’s only when you see fresh meat (AOC) in the arena that you have a hope.
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  35. It saddens me to hear Andy Brodock quoting Obama 06:02 "Don' boo; vote", in his attempt to grasp at Democratic Party straws. As if Obama or any politician within the allowed two party system will ever work against their oligarchs. You need to remember what these individuals are worth and they didn't get this rich from hard work. Pelosi didn't accumulate a fortune of over a hundred million dollars by creative innovation. Sadly Andy fails to appreciate the structure of US politics when he says, 06:16 "And if we don't get representatives that are willing to set that aside and be statesmen and not politicians, then we need new representatives that will do this". Andy needs to realize that ship has sailed; there are only a handful of representatives working for the people; the majority are working for the oligarchs and their corporations. There is only one rule; the higher you get in politics, the more corrupt you must be and Andy appears to have fallen for the presidential puppet scam so eloquently portrayed by Obama. Andy should awaken to the perpetual Democratic-Republican scam so well played by the oligarchs and their minions. The fools are so busy attempting to survive they never see the structured pendulum in a box created to maintain oligarchical control; Pendulum because it continually swings between Democrat and Republican and "in a box" because no other players are allowed into the system. So vote for the Democratic Party and see how far that gets you. Before you do, might I suggest you read the article by Zaid Jilani in the Intercept titled, "DCCC Internal Polling Presented to Members of Congress Panned Single-Payer Health Care". And then reconsider the futility of voting for the establishment in the Democratic Party.
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  36. What is the plutocratic tool (Hartmann) talking about with Obama - Hope and Change? Even before Obama filled his administration with City Group executives, installed Republican health insurance, expanded the wars and started 7 new wars, threw 3 million out of the US, and famously said "We don't look backwards, we look forward.", anyone could have seen this was a scam in waiting. McConnell was just an excuse for the Democrats to maintain their benefactors' (plutocrats') policies. If you looked carefully, you could detect Obama was just another confidence trickster working for the plutocrats. If you want to get some insight into the Democratic Party and the plutocrats' scam, just research "Ratchet Effect". This deceptive shill talk makes me very interested in observing how Hartmann spins the narrative and attempts to convince his liberal rubes NOT to vote for Bernie Sanders. Let's watch very carefully and see how he does it, shall we! And listening to Hartmann going through the litany of recent presidents exposes so much about his character. I much prefer the analysis of a True Progressive - Noam Chomsky who said (1990), "If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." I will be interested to see if Hartmann discusses Assange, Venezuelan sanctions or the Bolivian Coup with Greg Palast.
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  37. I would have to agree with Hartmann; especially the way he explains how Thatcher manipulated the rubes to maintain the conservative government in Britain after Thatcher decimated the unions. Imagine that; a tool (politician) of the "City of London" plutocrats being able to convince the majority to support a politician who has devastated the workers' voice, by going to war. It's difficult to imagine the people of a Western nation, which is owned and controlled by plutocrats, being so stupid as to fall for the old "Nationalism & Patriotism" scam. Contemporary politics is truly just a tool of the plutocrats. When analyzed carefully, politics is nothing more than sleaze (politicians) manipulating morons (public) to benefit the interests of their plutocratic masters. And when analyzed carefully, the political and electoral farce we call democracy is nothing more than tool for the plutocrats to maintain control by creating the illusion of freedom for their slaves.
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  38. I'm confident Thomas isn't promoting the oligarchs' Democratic Party on the basis of ideology. He is probably being paid for his treachery; just like the plethora of other partisan YouTube sites that are designed to ensure only the oligarchs' binary party system rules.
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  39. Why do these people continually fail to acknowledge the fact the Deep State controls all branches of government? Why do they continually believe there is an actual difference between Democrat and Republican when it comes to issues outside of minority groups? The Establishment would never set a precedent by sacrificing one of its high level puppets. Imagine the carnage it would cause if they started to prosecute the puppets and accidentally exposed the puppet-masters. Discussing any idea of justice or the rule of law when it comes to the criminal acts the puppets commit in the name of the Deep State, is just acute self abuse.
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  40. I was at least expecting some hint of policy but neither candidate said anything specific. They spent the whole time on generalizations and mudslinging. Anyone that takes this seriously would have to have spent their life watching sports. They didn’t raise one serious specific topic that would affect the lives of the American people. They didn't raise any relevant points they could debate. It would make more sense trying to dissect the motivation of an amoeba than to analyze this debate. There was one especially funny part where Trump and Clinton slung rhetoric in an attempt to appease the security fears imposed on the American people by ISIS. Ironic when the Bush and Obama regimes created, funded, armed and trained many of ISIS’ troops. On a more serious note, there is one politician I would take seriously, Richard H. Black, Senator of Virginia. He is one of the few that is actually telling the truth about the origins and Imperial strategy behind the Syria conflict. Because it appears that Hartmann doesn’t allow any references, just lookup, “Origins of the Syrian War, Richard H. Black, Senator of Virginia”. You will find multiple references of the story; one even from the Washington Post. How surprising, they were very critical. Don’t believe it, lookup and watch on YouTube: “General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned - Seven Countries In Five Years” The Democracy Now interview is the most concise. The Empire has just used its mercenary army ISIS instead of its own troops. The interesting thing is Hillary is fully aware of this fact; Trump appears ignorant of the US and allied support of the terrorists. If Trump is actually ignorant and should win, he is in for one hell of a wake-up and an even steeper learning curve.
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  41. +JamesThomas - There are two absolutes in life – Death and Government Lies. Not everyone pays taxes. It is becoming too dangerous to delude oneself into believing the Government is this benign entity working for the benefit of the majority of the population. Hasn’t the Princeton Study showing no correlation between the peoples will and Government policy woken anyone up! Government is morphing into Corporate Totalitarianism and is increasingly moving toward fascism which results in the loss of rights and liberty for the people and increasing wealth and reduced market risk for the corporations. I also don’t know the answer to the vaccine question but I would not believe the Government or any Government Regulator or department. Just to clarify, the UN also falls under this corrupt regime. The WHO should be included in the "Handle with Care" category with the rest of these cronies.
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  42. The only reason that I can see why MSM wouldn’t carry Clinton’s issues policy is that she has probably told them to minimize the amount of evidence that can be used against her when her real intentions become evident. Thomas, it is disconcerting to see you actually believe FOX would ask any candidate relevant detailed questions that can be used as a future noose. Sure there may be some difference in Hillary’s rhetoric when it comes to domestic policies that can be used to divide the population, but for wealth transfer and eventual serfdom, Hillary will be working for the Oligarchs. She will flip quicker than her stance on the Iraq War or TPP when it is to her financial benefit. Thomas, I am not advocating Trump as he is only Clinton lite with a little more rhetoric, but why are you working so hard to install this criminal warmonger? Don’t you remember the rhetoric that Obama spewed prior to the 2008 election? Why don’t you admit the population is being played using an Hegelian Dialectic in this false left-right paradigm! How can you keep a straight face and verbalize that list of mostly anti Wall Street policies that you expect her to address but knowing that only a few tokens may be considered. When Wall Street wins this round and strips wealth from Main Street over the next 8 years, will you again pick the lesser of two evils to perpetuate this acceleration to serfdom?
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  43. At last a progressive caller that understands the task ahead. I am hesitant in using any label, especially liberal, as many have passed through a MSM Orwellian filter and the meanings have been inverted. Do the people know who real the enemy is? You can't be at war with the government; it is only a implementer of Wall Street demands. Wall Street has been waging a class war since the early 18th century. The sad part is that Main Street is just starting to wake up to the fact that there has been a class war raging while most of Main Street has been asleep. Now that a few people have awakened to that fact, never give up the fight. Wall Street was an African and Indian slave market started in 1711 and continues to be a slave market for Main Street today. Democrats should never be fooled by their party’s current stand on minority rights, remember at the time of Lincoln and beyond, the Democratic Party supported slavery. Remember the legacy of Senator Byrd. The party is meaningless; what is important is the character of the individuals in the fight. Once the fight has started, surrender is not an option. Wall Street will never give up. Remember how Wall Street unwound all the progressive advancements of the New Deal. It took decades but Reagan’s administration (Don Regan) finally buried Roosevelt’s legacy and then some. It is time that people discredited that, so called politically correct MSM pejorative “Class War”. If you believe there has never been a class war, read “How Corporate America Created Christian America” by Kevin Kruse. This book covers the subversive and malignant intent of Wall Street and their Edward Bernays psyops operations. If you do not want to read the book, the Princeton History Professor, Kevin Kruse, has some YouTube videos that cover some of the content. It is certainly worth a look.
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  44. I have learned not to argue with Libertarians. Libertarians are like those Christians who pick and choose pieces of the Bible upon which to base their principles. Like the Schofield bible, they reinterpret passages that do not fit the politics and economic principles of Wall Street. They will never acknowledge the passage, “For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” as the original text intends. This gives Christian insight a Libertarian will never accept. Libertarians also pick and choose pieces of Economics text that fit their narrative. Consider the term, “Invisible Hand”. What Adam Smith meant by the invisible hand was the markets self protection mechanism when it comes to exporting jobs to countries with cheaper labor. Smith knew that shifting a nation’s labor income off shore would starve the retail trade of that nation. Smith didn’t believe the Oligarchs would cut their own long-term throats with this stupidity. Ironic, don’t you think when Ayn Rand’s apprentice, Alan Greenspan, recently stated that he was wrong about the invisible hand of markets when discussing the reasons behind the 2008 crash. Markets will not self protect; the 2008 crash has proven that even the discrete example Adam Smith meant by “the Invisible Hand” was incorrect. The Oligarchs will gamble with the risk component of Wall Street. Like quarks that come in three colors, Libertarians appear to come in two flavors; the first is greedy and works only for self gratification and the accumulation of wealth, they follow the “greed is good” principles of Wall Street. The second is the ignorant rube that follows the simplistic and misinterpreted parts of historical economic text and economics doctrine whose funding origins can be found in the early Wall Street Oligarchs. You will also find the cowards who continue to jump between the two; selecting whichever side that fits today’s narrative. In a way, the second is far more dangerous as they convince those that either can’t think or do not want to think (the majority) that Libertarian philosophy will cure all the economic ills. If they spent the time thinking about a satisfactorily complex libertarian economic structure, they would soon understand their ideas would only benefit Wall Street and increase wealth disparity. Roosevelt’s New Deal prompted a rebellion from the Oligarchs and this was the origins of the modern Libertarian party; not to be confused with the European Libertarian Socialists of the 1800s. Wall Street used it considerable resources and the work of Edward Bernays to conflate capitalism, corporatism and Christianity to fool the rubes into believing they were consuming and supporting corporate corruption for a higher purpose. Even Billy Graham got into the act. If you want to understand this part of history, Kevin Kruse wrote an excellent book, “In God We Trust; How Corporate America Invented Christian America”. Kruse is the History Professor at Harvard and the book is well written. Returning to the Libertarians analysis; I believe the rube component of the Libertarian population lives in an enclave similar to the isolation one would see in a religious cult. Similar to a religion, they appear to have faith in their economic beliefs but never willing to significantly debate their philosophy to the level necessary to be put into practice. They continue to sell the theory behind their cult with a side salad; the non interventionist libertarian policy. As if to say, if you support us, we have a non-interventionist policy and we will stop the US imperial aggression and butchery around the world. When you consider the Oligarchs that are responsible for Imperial aggression are the same Oligarchs that funded and continue to fund the Libertarian movement, this looks like a hollow promise. This just appears to be another example of sleaze (Wall Street Libertarians) using rube Libertarians to support their own political and economic ends. The scary part of the Libertarian and Neoliberal economic philosophy is the fact that Oligarchs around the world are now selling components of this philosophy to politicians (who don’t work for Goldman Sachs) in an effort to strip wealth from the labor class through the teachings of such institutions as The Cato Institute. This Wall Street institute and many similar around the world are transforming the working man into a serf and stripping national wealth. Impoverishing nations creates opportunities for the Oligarchs to asset strip the wealth of the nation’s people – the public infrastructure. Corporate privatization is the future with the Oligarchs moving from a manufacturing to a rent-seeker economy. As the labor class becomes more indebted to support a suitable standard of living, retail contraction will occur and the retail trade will dry up. The only money flowing will be to pay the rent-seekers for a place to stay and for the exorbitant prices for the utilities and services once supplied by the public sector. All that wealth will now go to the Oligarchs on the false premise they can run things more efficiently. Ironic, don’t you think, especially when you consider the Libertarian text “The Road to Serfdom” by Friedrich Hayek.
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  45. "The Democratic Party needs some changes". What is this traitor talking about? His masters just want to resurrect the Democratic Party and weave back in the same old deceptive structure. Why would you trust the yet unexposed traitors in the Democratic Party when they clearly went along with the deception? All aspects of the existing Democratic Party need to be totally rejected. The Justice Democrats must to be based on the worker’s interests and not have any “progressive” corporate Trojan Horses involved in its formation or operation. Could Pocan be working with Hartmann to continue the Corporate Democrats at all costs? The way Hartmann was talking about Hillary prior to the election, if he had his way, Hartmann would reinstall Clinton within the resurrected Corporate Democratic Party. The Oligarchs aren’t stupid; in every bet they make, they ensure they always win by betting on both sides. The last thing the Oligarchs want is an actual independent, transparent third party they cannot control.
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  46. Thomas, Regan was presented as a candidate to appease the Hollywood watching, superficially patriotic idiots that were longing to have a demagogue. Bush Senior may have played some roll in running the country but never forget Don Regan. Regan was the senior Oligarchs Wall Street representative in the White House. After his roles as CEO and Chairman for Merrill Lynch, he was then implanted as Secretary of the Treasury. His next role was closer to the President as Chief of Staff. I assume that the placement timing corresponded to some strategy executed by the Oligarchs. Did you ever notice how Regan used to shadow Ronald as the Chief of Staff. There is even a YouTube video of Regan giving Reagan instructions in a demeaning cursory manner. It was easy to see that the 40th president was a combined G. H. W. Bush as the establishment CIA operative and Don Regan as an Oligarch owned comptroller. Nothing has changed; there remain many Corporate representatives in the Administration continually traversing the revolving door. I wonder which Wall Street stooges Hillary will request to transverse the revolving door on behalf of her benefactors.
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  47. This ignorant moron should read Major General Smedley Butler’s book “War is a Racket”. The rube on the phone actually thinks that the Anglo-American Empire acts as a peacekeeper when it is a belligerent butchering imperial aggressor for Wall Street and the City of London. How would this moron feel if he was capable of understanding what it was to send his children to die to increase the bottom line for some Oligarch? My favourite quote from the late great Smedley Butler, “I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.” Thomas, continuity in your reasoning would be a blessing. You let this idiot get off too easily.
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  48. What is the progressive point of view on the Anglo-American Imperial aggression and butchery in the Middle East? To me, it appears progressives are saying if I just shut up about the atrocities, the Oligarchs may throw me some crumbs. Is this a valid interpretation?
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  49. This caller has not yet woken up to the fact that he lives in a corporate fascist state that is rapidly expanding throughout the Western World. Take a look at the Princeton statistical study on the correlation between public opinion and government policy. You have no say! Even Carter admitted that Democracy is dead in America. Wake up! What the people want does not even get a second glance by the administration. They control all the electoral choices. I thought you would have worked this out when the “Rule of Law” was abandoned by both parties. Heads I win, Tails you lose. Yelling about corporations controlling every aspect of your life may be cathartic, but it will make no difference to the fact that eventually we will all be serfs.
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  50. Interesting website. It assumes that you and the database know the principals for what the candidate stands. Poor assumption. Take for example: Sanders 89%; Stein 87%; McAfee 82%; Clinton 79%; Johnson 75%; . . . Trump 55%; Cruz 41%. I selected NO to increased military expenditure so how did Clinton get 79%. There were no questions about invading sovereign nations, killing foreign leaders, and cackling "I came, I saw, he died". I understand how Bernie got 89% and I expect it should have been higher from my input, but how did Clinton get 79%. Do you think Clinton's database criteria may be biased or faulty? Do you think that she has intentionally created a false perception? Would a Clinton lie? Does Hillary really believe that Wall Street's donations have no strings attached? Citigroup - $891,501, Goldman Sachs - $831,523; J.P. Morgan Chase & - $801,380. Normally lobbying returns up to1000x the initial investment. Isn't Hillary just a Trojan Horse to benefit Wall Street? I saw no questions about the revolving door corporate government and crony capitalism; inequality; the rule of law; expanding the money supply and Zero interest rate policy to only to benefit the Oligarchs. Why these issues were not considered important is a mystery. I wonder where Shillary really stands on these issues.
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