(TYT) Bill Maher: Democrats Are the New Republicans

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I remember ridiculing some of Bill's waffling back in 2005 (that's at least two Forum Hosts ago), when he was trying to decide between remaining a Libertarian or becoming an adult.

Back then, Bill was still giving Boy Bush "the benefit of the doubt", while the forum's resident Cons were puffed up with the 2004 election victories and what appeared to be strong prospects for their own Thousand Year Reich.

Bill has learned a thing or two since then. He did not turn to the fearful egoist sloganeering of Dimness Miller; Bill armed himself with facts, and accepted the inescapable conclusions.

We need Maher, Olbermann, Maddow, Moyers, Stewart, Colbert, and the voices at Air America as well as the great folks who write for The Nation, Mother Jones, In These Times, The Progressive and the online blogs. We'll be needing them for years to come: The Class War perpetrated by our Greed Culture must not end in armistice or compromise.

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I am happy to see that so many of forum posters now recognize that the Dim-Old-Crots are neither liberal nor progressive. I was not the first to say that -- everyone from Moyers to Chomsky to The Nation got there decades ahead of me -- but I was in the minority for the first two years I posted on the various Maher and AlterNet forums.

There is no better evidence for the old maxims about the corrupting effects of power than the history of the two wings of our American Chamber of Commerce Party:

• Republicans were originally the Party Of Lincoln, but they were soon seduced by the original Robber Barons.

• After TR's brief flirtation with progressive government, the bull capitalists clamped down, and Republicans were ever after that their captives.

• Democrats were a really sorry lot for most of the 19th and early 20th centuries: Champions of the Plantation Princes, defenders of slavery, Carpet-Baggers without peer, they were finally turned toward the light by the labor unions and then by FDR.

• Then the ugly side re-emerged when DixieCrats bolted in the late 1960s.

• Those DixieCrats formed the core of the Con Party, which first took over the Republican brand, then lured the DimOldCrots further and further toward Anschluss on the dark side. Bubba Clinton capped their triumph, and the American Chamber of Commerce Party was reality in all but the name.

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YouTube - Bill Maher: Democrats Are the New Republicans

BM & YoungTurks on the money.............

Exactly what I(& others here) have been saying....

If this was baseball center field would be somewhere in the center of of left field............