On 26/03/2021 10:17, TimS wrote:
> On 26 Mar 2021 at 09:51:07 GMT, The Natural Philosopher 
> wrote:
>
>> On 26/03/2021 04:51, 6+Cola wrote:
>>>     However the USA was founded on the idea of NOT "oppressing"
>>>      your neighbors. The "Just Leave Me The Fuck Alone" principle is,
>>>      or was, very important.
>>>
>> Indeed. a war was fought by the right to be oppressed by Amercans rather
>> than forein kings..
>>
>>>      BTW ... what does this have to do with Raspberry Pi's ???????
>>>
>> Ah...
>>
>>>      If Biden gets even half his taxation wishes, the entire USA won't
>>>      even be able to afford a Pi.
>>
>> Biden was only there as the most accepatable puppet to face up the election.
>>
>> Biden will do exactly what he is told, and when he isn't capable of that
>> Ms Harris will step up to the plate and sell the corporate designed
>> emotional narrative of bleeding heart Liberalism to Joe Public to
>> justify even further the transfer of money from the middle classes to
>> the oligarchy.
>>
>> Trump may have been the total arsehole everyone claimed, but he wasn't
>> *entirely* bought and paid for.
>
> Trouble is he is dim. But you're right about Harris. AISB, The US political
> parties are fucked and have forgotten how to offer plausible candidates.
> Willie Clinton was prolly the last dem one, and Bush the Elder on the other
> side.
>
Yup. Its the 'iron law of oligarchy' in play. Unless you have a Trumpian
style populism underneath, *all* the viable political choices are bought
*years* before they even get to be candidates.

In the UK, George Galloway described the two main parties as 'two cheeks
of the same arse'

Or as someone else said - 'It doesn't matter who you vote for, the
government always gets in'.



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Paul Krugman

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