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		<title>Welcome Aggressive Progressives!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>You Might be an American Idiot If</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 19:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Carlin was right, it&#8217;s a big club and our asses aren&#8217;t in it, except to clean their toilets and change their diapers. The system must be reformed. Corporate money buys and runs public governance and we have to be smart and kick their asses out! Republicans are social retards, we all know that, but&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="dropcap-first">George Carlin was right, it&#8217;s a big club and our asses aren&#8217;t in it, except to clean their toilets and change their diapers.</p>
<p>The system must be reformed. Corporate money buys and runs public governance and we have to be smart and kick their asses out! Republicans are social retards, we all know that, but the truth is that they too are a bunch of corporate livestock used to further enrich the multi-national corporate scum in trade for social policy that brings back the dark ages.</p>
<h2>You Might be an American Idiot If:</h2>
<p>1.)You think American Social programs and the poor brought down the global financial system.</p>
<p>Ahh, the power of the poor, the elderly and the ill! Is there anything they can&#8217;t do?</p>
<p>No shit head, Scumbags in suits jacking off over their computers as they sold SHIT for cash on Wall Street and made millions while they milked it for all they could, and then walked away without a turd on &#8216;em, fucked everything up. Slimy ass holes that could and still can, label shit as gold (like Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s) and then resell it a thousand time over FUCKED US ALL, not Social fucking security and Medicare no matter what Barack Obama says!</p>
<p>2.)You think corporations and/or unions need to be granted person-hood.</p>
<p>First of all&#8230; Unions? Really? So you think Unions can hold a fucking candle to the blinding torrent of green that comes for international corporate power? Right there you know your a fucking idiot!</p>
<p>No you moron! Each and every legal and legitimate citizen of the United States has the same rights granted under the Constitution! Giving stock holders, CEO&#8217;s and Unions ADDITIONAL power as fucking immortal Zombie Corporations and Phantom&#8217;s that have little or no REAL liabilities, person-hood in perpetuity is fucking retarded and proof you&#8217;re a dumb fuck. Yeah, I&#8217;m lookin&#8217; at you Antonin.</p>
<p>3.)You think an unregulated &#8220;free market&#8221; will rain down prosperity and opportunity on you and your wannabee-big-time-player ass.</p>
<p>If you didn&#8217;t have your me-gonna-be-a-millionaire-someday head buried in flat Earth corporate bull shit designed to keep you sucking corporate cocks all day you would know that we had a &#8220;free market&#8221;, or as free as it could get, system already. It fucking resulted in the god damned first great depression along with millions of deaths, dismemberments and illnesses at the hands of fucktard &#8220;free market&#8221; &#8220;entrepreneurs&#8221;. Good Housekeeping, Underwriters fucking Laboratories and BP&#8217;s good nature aren&#8217;t going to keep scum bag corporate jack-off&#8217;s from fucking shit up no matter what Penn Gillette and that sociopath skank Ayn Rand think.</p>
<p>4.)You think Barack Obama is a Liberal/Progressive straining to turn the country around from the Cheney/Bush dictatorship&#8217;s damage who just can&#8217;t seem to get past those dynamic, unbeatable Republicans and you think that the Democratic party isn&#8217;t owned and operated by the same scum fucks as the republican party.</p>
<p>Barack Obama is one of two things, or maybe both, a fucking coward or a shill. In my opinion he&#8217;s a god damned establishment shill and appeaser, a fucking corporate butt baby who can do the kind of damage to Progressive and Liberal progress that no Republican shithead could even come close to! This Trojan Chameleon can go where no republican can. He can slice and dice Health Care, Social Security and Medicare like no Republican ever could.</p>
<p>Why? Because he has hoards of white-guilt titty baby democrats and low expectation black Americans to get his back at every turn. These DINO&#8217;s of the cult of His Royal Shirtlessness think their boyfriend can do no wrong and that this bull shit we are being served by him and his third way scum is really some kind of &#8220;Change&#8221; and we should grade our eloquent bull shitter um, ah, s-whistelin&#8217; President on a curve for some fucking reason.</p>
<p>The democrats are a party dedicated to their new slogan &#8220;Vote democratic, we use lube republicans don&#8217;t!&#8221; -or- &#8220;Vote democratic &#8217;cause, well, we don&#8217;t suck as bad as the other guy.&#8221; The lesser-evil brigade giving your eyes a chance to adjust to the right wing shit box you&#8217;ll be living in thanks to their cowardice.</p>
<p>Did Bush and Cheney tell their base to shut the fuck up and eat their fucking peas? No, that&#8217;s for the democrats and their cowering, huddled losers to do.</p>
<p>5.)You think the Presidential election system in this Banana Republic represents a &#8220;free and fair&#8221; representative democratic system!</p>
<p>Those same butt-buddy corporations that spoon-feed bull shit into your face all day on the tee vee own the god damned process and will serve you up a scripted little drama designed to suspend reality and make you think corporate sponsored shit head D is that much different from corporate sponsored shit head R. Geezuz, can&#8217;t you see it by now? It&#8217;s a fucking farce! In the end the same corporate owners call the shots the only difference is that the so-called democrats have to act like they give a shit before they lose on purpose. They&#8217;re the fucking Washington Generals and the republicans are the Harlem Globe Trotters&#8211;they both have the same team owners!</p>
<p>So what do we do?</p>
<p>First, knock those corporate dicks out of your mouth. Know that almost everything you read, hear and see that comes from a source traded on the stock market or associated with a traded entity is devoted to serving themselves and not the truth, what&#8217;s right and good for America, or determined by any moral aspect or sense of personal integrity. It is a blind greed based, bottom line driven bouncer protected, cabal.</p>
<p>Second, realize that the initiative and actions that might change this mess will have to originate outside of phony electoral and commercial systems. Any endeavor, political or financial, that threatens status quo and the establishment will be met with torrents of corporate cash, schemes, slander, personal attacks and manipulation to defend itself like a wounded wild animal.</p>
<p>Only when Americans face the truth about their loss of power, representation and service by a government not over run by the needs of the poor and the disenfranchised but taken over by those with real power and influence, can we even start to fight back. Public governance if kept &#8220;public&#8221; is a sensible and essential balance to private concentrations of power. Contrary to the corporate propaganda that regulation, law and taxes prevent prosperity, they provide the security, freedom and infrastructure that promote it, just not as fast and selfishly as they want. If it&#8217;s bad government its because bad people have taken control and who controls it is supposed to be our responsibility not Wall Street&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Republican or Democrat, you getting fucked. Don&#8217;t be an idiot.</p>
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		<title>Elections Aren&#8217;t Enough, Revolution is in Order Here!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elections aren&#8217;t going to change the path America is on. Organized revolt, massive civil action and economic boycotts at the very least would be the beginning a perpetual commitment to protecting public governance from private take over. Our system is a farce. Obama is a tool to placate &#8220;Liberals&#8221;. Every candidate that can assume a&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="dropcap-first"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1952" title="revolution" src="http://thefrankfactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/revolution.jpg" alt="" width="232" height="232" />Elections aren&#8217;t going to change the path America is on. Organized revolt, massive civil action and economic boycotts at the very least would be the beginning a perpetual commitment to protecting public governance from private take over. Our system is a farce. Obama is a tool to placate &#8220;Liberals&#8221;. Every candidate that can assume a position of any real power is vetted by corporate power. To believe otherwise is to be ignorant and live in a fantasy world. Americans that continue to invest in this fraud only empower it.</p>
<h2>We need an American Spring!</h2>
<p>If I wanted to further the accomplishments of corporate and right wing America&#8230; I would tell people to vote for this corporate shill and Reagan revivalist, Barack Obama and just shut up. He&#8217;s doing a great job of subverting well meaning democrats into the right lane as it is. The last thing I would do is advocate for populist revolt yet this is the response I get from rank and file &#8220;democrats&#8221;.</p>
<p>I submit that the elections will be another fraud from top to bottom and any approach that relies on using the system without a radical and coordinated battle plan of follow up measures and policing in perpetuity is doomed at worst and will result it glacially slow progress if any at all at best. My view remains a call to massive revolt against the system and a commitment to reformation backed by civil disobedience and economic boycott.</p>
<p>I stand outside the popular opinion on some critical issues, one BIG one in particular:</p>
<p>I believe that participating in the Federal election system is to support fraud and the crony capitalism that runs America.</p>
<p>I respect each individuals right to free speech and the expression of it through the vote. I would never tell anyone how to vote but I don&#8217;t have to agree with it. Having said that&#8230;</p>
<p>From my outsider&#8217;s position, a position that&#8211;were it not so isolated, I believe could start an avalanche of populism&#8211;I am calling for withdraw from the Federal election scam by anyone interested in starting a movement to free ourselves from this fraud. This is only a part of a larger movement and not a scheme to elect Republicans in spite of the bleating from the Obamabot sheep.</p>
<p>That a republican might win is a fact I concede but to center on that issue as if it is the only one that matters is ignorant and short sighted. This plan calls for the discontinuation of the mind numbing, false sense of security that comes from participating in a fraudulent system and electing Wall Street scum bags like Barack Obama just because they are &#8220;less evil&#8221; than the Republican candidate.</p>
<p>I suggest the disconnection and disengagement of the greater mass of Americans from their complicit activity in what is a scam designed to marginalize the citizen and empower the powerful. A movement of this nature would rely on creating large disruptions in commerce and the operation of repressive private and government activity. Simply not voting is a wasted act without proper follow up and planning.</p>
<p>This would be a massive act of civil disobedience that would not relent until the citizens are acknowledged and policies made a reality. This would require sacrifice by all involved and some more than others. People like my wife and I bound to corporate medical treatment extortion to stay alive and those in compromised earning capacities would have to be willing to weather this storm. It would require commitment and sacrifice not just going to a corporate voting machine and pretending to make a difference.</p>
<p>For this movement to succeed the goals to be met would have to be clearly enumerated and negotiated with strength and clarity of purpose. This would only be the beginning of would would have to be a new model and path for the future of America. The application of eighteenth and nineteenth century social and economic protocol is over.</p>
<p>America is already a laughing stock around the globe, an executive litter box famous for its disengaged, ill informed, gullible populace. Continuing on this path and playing in to the same hands will not lead to a different end but rather more of the same.</p>
<p>Desperate times call for&#8230;</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Desperate Times Don&#8217;t Call For Lesser-Evil Voting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="dropcap-first">I really wish I could post at DemocraticCircleJerk.com. I love to poke these &#8220;lesser-evil-ites&#8221; in the sternum.</p>
<p>The way I see it, it&#8217;s not business as usual.</p>
<p>Lesser-evil, fear driven voting from the Left does two things:</p>
<p>1.)Pushes the Left further right.</p>
<p>2.)Creates a false sense of accomplishment and security.</p>
<p>The only way I could justify this AGAIN is if we had an independent and forceful grass roots movement in motion&#8230; RIGHT NOW that would be setting up targets and taking them out one by one. What targets? Overturn Citizens United, campaign finance reform, fixing black box voting, busting up media monopolies and a host of other NECESSITIES.</p>
<p>Otherwise we just slide further and further to the right until one day shit heads at D.U. are defending the democratic party&#8217;s version of Michelle Bachman and Rick Perry against the &#8220;Greater Evil&#8221; of the day.</p>
<p>There comes a time when you have to face the fact that you can&#8217;t just take the path of least resistance, the safe route. You have to look inside and realize that, all things considered, if you throw in with the status quo you are actually aiding and abetting the delayed demise of your party and the things you &#8220;claim&#8221; to hold on to ideologically and morally.</p>
<p>How much worse will these people let it get? What will they eventually do? Will they EVER call out their own?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m saying that writing in a candidate or, if you&#8217;re actually okay with it, not voting CAN actually signal and initiate a sea change. Could it elect a Republican? Realistically? Yes. I know, that would be disastrous but consider this; not standing up, not taking the reigns, not calling out failure of our own can&#8217;t possibly help our cause. It only delays the slide into crazy corporofascist land. And judging by this new breed of Right Wing Democrats we&#8217;ve bred somehow lately, the situation calls for serious action.</p>
<p>We have to draw a clear distinction between reality and the world created by corporate money. Time and time again polls are ignored, Congress is despised, we WANT single payer health care, we WANT to make those who crashed the global economy pay-and on, and on but NOTHING really happens!</p>
<p>Desperate times..</p>
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