Unfortunately, I cannot link to the full article by Glenn Greenwald, because salon.com does not enable direct links to individual articles, but you can google Glenn Greenwald and its still on his front page, if you scroll down.
I would also suggest watching the interview of Kucinich and Nader on the Democracy Now website.
As usual, the question arises, whether the Republicans in office would be worse. I believe most certainly, that they would be. One look or listen to the Glenn Becks and Michelle Malkins within their midst, stirring up hatred and anger, fueling religious extremism and white nationalism, and it certainly make me shudder. But rest assured that the Democratic Party as a whole is thoroughly corrupt as well a slow motion train wreck, if you will.
You cannot have a Democracy, nor a Republic, without an informed populace, and the majority of US citizens are either being misinformed, misled, ignorant, and most simple dont give a damn. Thanks to our corporate mass media, in no small measure.
A coup détat has taken place, not beginning with this administration, but further back, with the global financial elite now firmly positioned to challenge any dissent whatsoever to their machinations. Their covert actions involve the shaping of public opinion via our media, and increasingly the internet as well. As usual, voices of dissent will be marginalized to the point of being invisible, but as economic hardships mount for the still existent middle class, these control tactics will eventually become more overtly repressive. Hence we have the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, Secret Detentions without legal recourse, and so on. As the propaganda machine churns on, the middle class, now under massive economic pressure, will be pitted against the poor and truly desperate. This in turn, will only serve the interests of the global financial elites, who would like nothing better, than the people fighting amongst themselves because it certainly takes attention away from their misdeeds, which created this situation in the first place.
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