Forum Post: Left and Right: UNITE!!
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 13, 2011, 2:01 a.m. EST by quadrawack
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Conservatives and Liberals Agree: End the Malignant, Symbiotic Relationship Between Big Government and Big Corporations
While many pretend that liberals and conservatives are too far apart to work together, there are actually many issues on which everyone can agree.
For example, both liberals and conservatives hate the malignant, symbiotic relationship between big government and big corporations:
Conservatives tend to view big government with suspicion, and think that government should be held accountable and reined in.
Liberals tend to view big corporations with suspicion, and think that they should be held accountable and reined in.
Conservatives hate big unfettered government and liberals hate big unchecked corporations, so both hate legislation which encourages the federal government to reward big corporations at the expense of small businesses.
Most Americans – whether they are conservative or liberal – are disgusted that virtually all of the politicians are bought and paid for. No wonder people of all stripes have lost all trust in our government.
And everyone hates government-enabled fraud. The big banks, of course, committed massive fraud. But the auditors, rating agencies and regulators also all committed fraud, which helped blow the bubble and sowed the seeds of the inevitable crash.
I've been screaming that we need to drop our ideologies and concentrate on the message
END CORRUPTION
Yet, people are still being pulled into flamewars and trollbait. We still see calls for socialism by speakers in a variety of Occupations. Occupations need to start putting more conservatives up to speak.
Great post, OP (and zerohedge, as always!). I just posted something similar you may want to check out -
Common ground v. divide and conquer - Abuse of power is the enemy, not each other
http://occupywallst.org/forum/common-ground-v-divide-and-conquer-abuse-of-power-/
Unite！！very good！！！
"Conservatives tend to view big government with suspicion, and think that government should be held accountable and reined in. Conservatives hate big unfettered government"
That's not true, that's just what they are selling.
Well, it depends on what kind of conservative. I'm a fiscal conservative, so that applies to me. A lot of the republicans are social conservatives, so supposedly they want smaller government, but a shitload of wars, which we know is an oxymoron. I call them the fascists.
More accurately, they are internationalists who believe in foreign intervention. That encompasses the neocons, mainstream Democrats and Republicans, and neolibs.