There is no US election. There is power consolidation. Rigged primary, rigged media and rigged 'pied piper' candidate drive consolidation.
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This site's disappeared pretty far up the Clinton campaign's ass in recent months.
@1987198
Because it's good for the people who really run this country, big business, finance capitalists, the banks, etc? The people who benefitted constantly from Obama's two terms?
Yeah, the secret powers that be rig the election so a conservative Republican will win one year, and then 8 years later they'll rig it so someone who's diametrically opposed to the previous administration will win. For some reason.
And if Wikileaks is jumping on the "rigged elections" bandwagon then we shouldn't trust anything they ever produce in the way of hacked email or leaked information. Especially since they've edited stuff in the past.
Jesus, Wikileaks, what happened? Did you decide the media mileage was now in manufactured controversy rather than the real deal?
...because unfortunately, it is. Fuck this election cycle with a rusty pitchfork.
@TimeToTurn
If big business really rigged the elections, the only politicians out there would be Republicans who couldn't kiss their collective asses enough. That the Democratic Party exists at all is bad for the controlling money-hoarders out there.
I like how insinuating that Clinton is anything less than the devil incarnate makes you a shill ass-kisser, too.
@Uilleam Maybe wikileaks just wasn't getting enough actual leaks. People who are willing to violate the security contracts every firm and agency requires nowadays are a rare breed. Enter Russian intelligence, with hacked material, probably including "salted text."
@TimeToTurn Don't whine, get out there and find some idiotic Democratic content!
The moment I saw this quote, I actually thought: TimeToTurn won't see anything wrong with this; in fact, he'll agree wholeheartedly.
Glad to see he didn't disappoint -_-
"If big business really rigged the elections, the only politicians out there would be Republicans who couldn't kiss their collective asses enough. That the Democratic Party exists at all is bad for the controlling money-hoarders out there."
I'm not so sure. If I was part of the evil corporate election rigging conspiracy, I would want there to at least be an illusion of opposition to my true agenda.
If the 'establishment' wanted to rig the election so that someone who represents an anti-establishment angle doesn't win, they'd have ensured that Trump didn't win the Republican primary to give a more typical candidate in someone like Marco Rubio or John Kasich. If they can't rig a primary what makes you think they'd do so with the general election?
@Demon Duck of Doom:
Sure there were some crass and underhand e-mails about Sanders from the Clinton campaign and the DNC, but this doesn't correlate to a rigged primary. Clinton won with a good degree of parity, and I have seen no evidence in the breakdown of the primary results or from analysts which raise a red flag of suspicion.
@Spacewyrm :
If the opposition were an illusion, a sham, they wouldn't put so much effort into fighting for their policies and opposing the other sides'. As the Republicans in congress have consistently resisted Obama's presidency and the Democrats with some considerable force, I can rest assured that the American democratic system is not an illusion to mask a controlled opposition as you get in somewhere like Russia. The Republicans have fought vociferously against Clinton for years, they have made their opposition to her and her role in Bill Clinton's presidency quite clear, so I can't see that changing now, even with Trump.
@Yossarian Lives
Just to be clear, I wasn't saying that I think the Democrats are actually some kind of sham opposition. Nor am I saying that any of this election rigging nonsense is true or likely. I just think that IF the evil corporate vote rigging conspiracy actually did exist, they wouldn't necessarilly allow only business-serving anti-regulation Republicans into power. They would probably make sure that their guys had a permanent majority though.
Election being rigged? Come on, it's not like the Super Bowl...
Too bad Giant Meteor is doing so poorly. Still poling ahead of Stein, though...
"The Republicans have fought vociferously against Clinton for years, they have made their opposition to her and her role in Bill Clinton's presidency quite clear, so I can't see that changing now, even with Trump."
They're just better actors.
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