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Thursday 17 June 2010

If citizens remain stuck in Left v. Right wars, then I don’t see any meaningful way for the political establishment to be weakened. The problem is that moneyed interests own and control both political parties, and benefit regardless of which one is in power (albeit with some differences between the two). So if citizens remain convinced that their political salvation lies in loyalty to one of the two parties’ establishments, all they’re really doing is perpetuating the elites’ interests that control the government now, which are most certainly not [the citizenry’s] interests. As long as citizens continue to fight against each other based on these Left v. Right wars, then the citizenry will be weakened and more fractured, and the political establishment will in turn be stronger and more vulnerable. There are obviously important differences between liberal and conservative Americans, but those differences are not the source of the primary ways in which they are shafted and mistreated, and little of that will end as long as they continue to devote themselves to these tribal divisions, which are largely a sideshow from the real systemic problems. Glenn Greenwald

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