How high must the price of oil rise before the media and the Democrats (and perhaps even actual patriotic Republicans) acknowledge that this is exactly the intention of the radical oil barons who have seized power and systematically dismantled government for the past six years in order to enrich themselves? As Greg Palast said in the article to which I've just linked again, Big Oil "don't make money from pumping more oil, but from pumping less of it. The lower the supply, the higher the price." So remember, and pass it on - whatever bullshit you hear about oil refineries and saber-rattling about Iran, it's likely a big fat lie, and certainly a smokescreen designed specifically to divert people's attention from their actual goal: to raise the profits of Big Oil.
And the same must be noted about their politics in general, and why the governing of our country hasn't been a mere matter of political disagreement, traditional Repub-versus-Demo paradigms, in the last half-dozen years. These people have zero interest in governing. Everything they have done since they maneuvered their way into power has been in the service of accumulating more power and wealth for themselves and their small circle of friends, while making sure other people don't have access to that power - whether by electoral shenanigans, dividing and conquering, fearmongering, cronyism, propagandistic appeals to patriotism and religion, demonization of the opposition, enlisting willing lackies to help ramrod through questionable legislation, rewarding incompetence and hostility, culture-war diversions, or outright lies.
The good news is, this kind of naked avarice never lasts. They'll wind up cannibalizing each other, or destroying themselves in any number of other ways. The bad news is their destruction of millions of other lives in the meantime.
And the same must be noted about their politics in general, and why the governing of our country hasn't been a mere matter of political disagreement, traditional Repub-versus-Demo paradigms, in the last half-dozen years. These people have zero interest in governing. Everything they have done since they maneuvered their way into power has been in the service of accumulating more power and wealth for themselves and their small circle of friends, while making sure other people don't have access to that power - whether by electoral shenanigans, dividing and conquering, fearmongering, cronyism, propagandistic appeals to patriotism and religion, demonization of the opposition, enlisting willing lackies to help ramrod through questionable legislation, rewarding incompetence and hostility, culture-war diversions, or outright lies.
The good news is, this kind of naked avarice never lasts. They'll wind up cannibalizing each other, or destroying themselves in any number of other ways. The bad news is their destruction of millions of other lives in the meantime.
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