Confessions of a GOP operative....actually staff writer.

Okay so the author spent thirty years in Washington as a Republican, pushing this agenda along. I appreciate the heads up, most of which, while unable to put a definitive finger on it, was pretty much known. Simply writing an article about it does not absolve the damage that he had to have helped make successful over his career. It's simply not enough. Want to help? Give us more to work with. Spill names, secrets, something other than outlining their very effective plan to make government appear useless as a subversion tactic. From what the climate looks like today, it may already be too late.

I posted this the other day. It is really a great read and the best analysis of the current GOP.

The problem with our representative democracy..... Is that it's a REPRESENTATIVE democracy.

We don't have a say, the show is over, move along, and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...

So I'm going to vote for someone, who is supposed to represent me in all the decisions that effect me, and hope the lobbyists who write the laws, amendments, legislation, whatever for said representative has my best interests in mind....

(note I didn't even get to elect the lobbyists how is that fair?)

Even if the process that goes into "electing" these puppets of our corporate overlords were legitimate, the politicians don't represent the will of the people (brainwashed ignorant sheeple don't count, their will is play-doh), and campaign finance laws in their current state will have us forever at the will of the corporations....

There is no democracy in this country.... There is no sound argument which fully examines the myriad ways it's corrupted, that can say we live in a democracy....

We all might as well be voting for one of the douches from the "Jersey Shore".....

And don't even tell me, any of these ass-clowns, even Ron Paul for that matter gives a flying fuck about any of us, they don't, were chattel property of the corporations as far as they're all concerned and even Barry Soetoro (which is his legal name according to Indonesian legal documents) doesn't give two shits about any of us....

Read this yesterday. Seriously brilliant piece of writing. Lays it all out there. No spin. No pulled punches.

Oh, and Fuck You GOP.

Great article but very depressing. It just proves what most of us already know--that this country is fast becoming a idiocracy, theocracy and, of course, going very fast toward fascism.

I have read this article several times and, after some thought I have a question to put forward to the Current community.

Given that the Republicans have gone stark raving insane, and the Democrats are paralyzed by fear, is it time for a third party - and where would that party be aligned on the political spectrum?

The Republicans have painted the Democrats as socialistic, and worse. The distrust of progressive policies (with the exception of single-payer health care) would seem to be at an all-time high.

The approval ratings of the Tea Party, and by extension the Republicans, are very low.

Would a new party, by virtue of these factors, be most likely to gain traction if it were seen as centrist? Or do you think that the need is for a more progressive stance?

I look forward to your thoughts on the matter.

I can sum it up this way.
You can fool some of the people most of the time and all of the people some of the time but you can fool uneducated or low educated people all of the time.
The people on Current, with the exception of a few tea baggin paid shills, have more on the ball than the whole conservative party as a whole.
We mus have more than a 3rd grade education I guess.

you can't argue to much with Lofgrens take on things....it puts in one article so much that is going on in politics.