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Duopoly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The competition of ideas in America has been put to an end, as BOTH parties chase corporate dollars and so the American people are ignored, their interests subordinated to those that own the media and the geysers of cash that flood our electoral system, and the American people continue to lose net wealth, real individual income and their civil rights.
In Red China the Communist Party is like an occupational force, with its values and ideology completely separated and insulated from the common Chinese people. The same exact thing is happening in America right now as the duopoly of faux opponents run the middle class of this country straight into the ground.
You want to fix America's problems? It doesn't require a genius to solve these things. Remove all corporate tax deductions and set up a system of deductions that are entirely based on how many DOCUMENTED tax paying American citizens they have on their pay roll and what the ratio of top management salary is to the average worker in their company. We would have jobs aplenty almost over night. To fix the border requires turning off the illegal alien magnets that draw them in, by using RICO to confiscate the businesses that hire illegal aliens; BOOM, problem gone faster than you can say 'throw the bastards in prison.'
But NONE of this will ever happen as long as their is NO COMPETITION in our political system, and the Democrats and Republican puppet theater is no actual competition.
If the GOP was truly in opposition to the Democrats we would have a Speaker of the House that would at least discuss impeaching an over reaching imperial President. IF we had real competition in our political system we would have both parties kissing the middle classes ass to get their votes BETWEEN elections as well as the primary season.
Instead we have ever growing power of the corporate oligarchs as the American middle class loses over and over and over.
Since 1973 real wages have fallen for individual Americans who have almost all had to shift to dual income families. In fact few even bother to report the individual incomes any more and only refer to household income like 5 people working to make what one person used to make is AOK.
Middle-class squeeze - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The net wealth of the American middle class is collapsing yearly.
Family net worth plummets 40% - Jun. 11, 2012
Meanwhile all job growth was absorbed by immigrants since 2000
All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants | Center for Immigration Studies
The problem is not Obama being some Muslim Kenyan terrorist wannabe like the hysterical right claims, nor is it some vast rightwing conspiracy run by the Koch brothers as the wacko left claims.
It is the simple fact that no matter which party gets control WE MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS LOSE.
It is past time to end the duopoly in our political system and return real competition to it.
Further reading:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/03/america-duopoly-money-politics
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Wh...erican-Hypocrisy_Leader_Money-131216-102.html
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303848104576385922449922958
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-ferguson/the-financial-crisis-and-_1_b_782927.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-elections-the-empty-politics-of-duopoly/5311179
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2...oney-politics-and-manipulation-public-opinion
A true duopoly (from Greek duo δύο (two) + polein πωλεῖν (to sell)) is a specific type of oligopoly where only two producers exist in one market. In reality, this definition is generally used where only two firms have dominant control over a market. In the field of industrial organization, it is the most commonly studied form of oligopoly due to its simplicity....
Modern American politics, in particular the electoral college system has been described as duopolistic since the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated and framed policy debate as well as the public discourse on matters of national concern for about a century and a half. Third Parties have encountered various blocks in getting onto ballots at different levels of government as well as other electoral obstacles, more so in recent decades.
The competition of ideas in America has been put to an end, as BOTH parties chase corporate dollars and so the American people are ignored, their interests subordinated to those that own the media and the geysers of cash that flood our electoral system, and the American people continue to lose net wealth, real individual income and their civil rights.
In Red China the Communist Party is like an occupational force, with its values and ideology completely separated and insulated from the common Chinese people. The same exact thing is happening in America right now as the duopoly of faux opponents run the middle class of this country straight into the ground.
You want to fix America's problems? It doesn't require a genius to solve these things. Remove all corporate tax deductions and set up a system of deductions that are entirely based on how many DOCUMENTED tax paying American citizens they have on their pay roll and what the ratio of top management salary is to the average worker in their company. We would have jobs aplenty almost over night. To fix the border requires turning off the illegal alien magnets that draw them in, by using RICO to confiscate the businesses that hire illegal aliens; BOOM, problem gone faster than you can say 'throw the bastards in prison.'
But NONE of this will ever happen as long as their is NO COMPETITION in our political system, and the Democrats and Republican puppet theater is no actual competition.
If the GOP was truly in opposition to the Democrats we would have a Speaker of the House that would at least discuss impeaching an over reaching imperial President. IF we had real competition in our political system we would have both parties kissing the middle classes ass to get their votes BETWEEN elections as well as the primary season.
Instead we have ever growing power of the corporate oligarchs as the American middle class loses over and over and over.
Since 1973 real wages have fallen for individual Americans who have almost all had to shift to dual income families. In fact few even bother to report the individual incomes any more and only refer to household income like 5 people working to make what one person used to make is AOK.
Middle-class squeeze - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The net wealth of the American middle class is collapsing yearly.
Family net worth plummets 40% - Jun. 11, 2012
Meanwhile all job growth was absorbed by immigrants since 2000
All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants | Center for Immigration Studies
The problem is not Obama being some Muslim Kenyan terrorist wannabe like the hysterical right claims, nor is it some vast rightwing conspiracy run by the Koch brothers as the wacko left claims.
It is the simple fact that no matter which party gets control WE MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS LOSE.
It is past time to end the duopoly in our political system and return real competition to it.
Further reading:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/03/america-duopoly-money-politics
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Wh...erican-Hypocrisy_Leader_Money-131216-102.html
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303848104576385922449922958
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-ferguson/the-financial-crisis-and-_1_b_782927.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-elections-the-empty-politics-of-duopoly/5311179
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2...oney-politics-and-manipulation-public-opinion
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