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Sam and Friends BookIf there's something no one's willing to admit, it's the fact that the country itself is so far right, the "socialist" Democrats are essentially where the Republicans were under Nixon. You know, Nixon, the Republican who was the bad one because he probably had thugs break into a hotel to steal intel on the Democrats, expanded a war, and was kinda racist. Meanwhile selling weapons to a hostile nation to fund a South American drug war that was never our business gets you so beloved that they want to put you on money. Say what you will about Tricky Dicky, he didn't lie about a country run by a crazy dictator that his father put into power to fight said country they sold weapons to having weapons to justify a war between a country that was never a threat to us. Nixon's the villain of Futurama and Duh-Byah gets to stay home and make ugly paintings of his feet. What Nixon did as far as other Republican presidents are concerned is nickle and dime stuff.
The biggest problem I have with the Democratic party is that they're like comedy writers who are their own self censor. Complicate, overly willing to compromise, selling themselves short because you know they'd rather not have any drama with the network censor than actually step out and shine. The Dems are their own compromise, and therefore instead of being leftish, they're more of the centerist middle man third party than the radical socialist commies the right likes to paint them as. All Bernie's values did was nudge them slightly to the left where they should be, and on issues that actually are screwing us up as a country. I wouldn't be surprised if colleges ran on the same level of corruption that the medical field does. As in, purposely overbilling patients to get money from insurance companies, in turn making the insurance more expensive. Wouldn't be surprised if you just replace "insurance" with "Student loans" and that's the case. The thing that scares me here is that the Republican Party made the 2012 election about "you should bow down to your corporate overlords" and that anything that could help out those who have to work 3 jobs and still can't get off food stamps is some evil slide into communism, yet massive Tax cuts to rich morons and corporate welfare is absolutely different. How come we're so compliant to people who have a lot of money getting our tax money, but when someone has to work 3 shifts at various fast food companies and still needs welfare, we're all "they don't deserve to get a raise in minimum wage, but darned if they should get my hard earned tax money in government entitlements!"
