Comments by "Animal Farm" (@animalfarm7467) on "Reports From a Sinking Society (w/Guest Thomas Frank)" video.

  1. Notice how, when explaining the historical progress and the demise of US Democracy, Hartmann starts with the Powell Memo in 1971 that was the Republican strategy to subvert US Democracy, and then Hartmann says, 02:40 “Boom, that leads directly to Citizens United and then you got a billionaire oligarch running Fox News Network”; HOLD ON, you have left out the best parts of history. You have only included the Republican criminals, what about the criminals in the Democratic Party? Yes, Hartmann continues his rant with emotive labels such as “Rupert Murdoch” and then “Donald Trump”, and apparently, intentionally misses the contribution to this scam by the party he tells everyone to vote for, the Wall Street owned Democratic Party. Notice how Hartman leads Thomas Frank over the part of history where Bill Clinton and Al Gore created the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) funded by the Koch Brothers; yes, the same GOP Libertarian Koch Brothers that introduced “Citizens United” to allow the oligarchs to buy the elections. The same Koch brothers that introduced “Money is Free Speech” where one’s voice was only limited by the size of one’s wallet. It’s interesting why Hartmann left out this piece of information especially when his diatribes against the subversive Koch and their Libertarianism are legendary. But as soon the Kochs interact with his Democratic Party and Corporate Democrats, you don’t hear a word. Hartman is neither an ignorant nor stupid man so I can only conclude this deception is intentional. Notice how Hartman leads Thomas Frank over the part of history where Bill Clinton and Al Gore also created the “Third Way”; the intentional strategy of formally changing the idea of working for the majority and asking Wall Street to fund the Democratic Party; and here’s the killer; to benefit the workers of America. Notice how Hartmann totally forgets about the deregulation of Wall Street, started by the Reagan administration (Don Regan – Merrill Lynch) and finished by, you guessed it, Bill Clinton. So Hartmann; did that turn out as expected? As you would expect it didn’t work without the Democratic Party removing its cloak of questionable intent and start formally working for Wall Street. The joke of Wall Street is they could hold out the money just out of reach, and move to the right, and the Democrats would follow them. Notice this is the same Hartmann who told you to vote for Hillary. I can still see Hillary, the Wall Street employee and sycophant, paid by Wall Street and owned by Wall Street, and Hartmann leading his audience into the same old strategy of “voting for the lesser of two evils”, where no matter the outcome, Wall Street always wins. Sadly, the more intelligent voters that understand the scam become more and more disheartened. So Hartmann, why the intentional deception; are you working for Wall Street? Are you being paid to keep at least one of the doors of democracy always open for the oligarchs should the Republicans become a complete laughing stock? What’s the scam? Notice how Thomas Frank hints at the scam by saying, 03:10 “You have got to have a second political party if you want to do that; you have to have a party that opposes it if you want to reverse it”, to the query about why the actions of the Reagan era haven’t been reversed. And Thomas Frank is correct when he said, 03:35 “Everything you have said is exactly true”, but what Frank apparently overlooks is the contributions by the Clinton, Gore, the “Third Way” and the Kochs. I have been watching Hartmann for long enough to understand that something is on the nose; but the avoidance and failure to clarify history by Frank disappoints and saddens me. So when I heard Thomas Frank avoid Obama’s complicity in the Wall Street scam, my heart sank. I would expect the Corporate Democrat Hartmann to distort the facts for his masters on Wall Street but I thought Frank was different. I’ve never heard Hartmann admit the Obama administration was selected by Citi Group, but I heard those words come out of Thomas Frank’s mouth when he wasn’t around Hartmann. Guess I was wrong about Frank; he is apparently part of the deception. I can’t watch anymore of this video, too depressing. I guess people get the democratic processes and the governments they deserve.
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