Alexis@17,

Sweetly writ. It occurs to me that doublespeak has obscured the issue since WWII. The issue is slavery. What you describe above is as close as the elite class can get to having slaves. But they remain hopeful. Unlimited medical care for everybody? Just optimizing the herd health at taxpayer expense.

It started with them telling US, this was capitalism. Laissez faire, only tempered by gov’t intervention, to protect US from those evil barons of industry, who weren’t. Moving to “infinitely precautionary” at taxpayers’ expense.

So the two dominant political parties are portrayed as business interests vs. the peoples’ interests. Like there’s some natural contradiction. Here, we’re in a struggle pitting Man against State, and both parties are enabling the State. The Repubs are said to be financed by big biz, which claims it needs the low cost workers to survive. Ergo, our borders remain open to the slavers. How’s that wage slave thing workin’ out? And, the other party supports enslaving everyone in the US all the time; not just during business hours.

The scam seems to have been that the Republican position has been merely a carve out in the expanding slave trade, while reducing taxable footprints. H1A visas during 20% and rising unemployment?

Since I was first allowed to vote (Goldwater – you had to be 21), it’s been two slavers inexorably expanding their reach, each always jockeying for position, while acting as if they were diametrically opposed. Reaching across the aisle? Bi-partizenship describes their collusion in the on-going move to involuntary servitude.

BTW, Dennis Farina in that edgy series drove the boat I’ve pined over all my life. Black 1957 Chrysler 300C convertible, with red leather and white top. Now rare and $75 large. The Crime Scene characters would all be in jail on police brutality charges.