What the "election" will be a mandate FOR
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What Robama and Obomney either agree on or don't talk about. Therefore, election 2012 will be a mandate for:
1. Intensified austerity, in the form of cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Both "candidates" agree on Simpson-Bowles. ZOMG!!! Teh debt!!! is Shock Doctrine, plain and simple.
2. Continued depression, since both candidates see no reason to stimulate aggregate demand.
3. Continued tyranny, since NDAA, an enabling act, is not on the table.
4. No rule of law. Criminal prosecution of bankster CEOs for accounting control fraud not on the table.
5. Continued mass incarceration, since legalizing marijuana (a key driver in filling the prisons, especially with blacks) is not on the table.
6. Continued carbon state, since neither candidate mentions fracking, and Obama's had no response to Romney's synthetic outrage at spending chump change on green energy.
7. Continued climate change. Not on the table at all.
8. No single payer. Both candidates agree that Obama passed RomneyCare, and agree that RomneyCare is a ceiling not a floor.
9. Continued foreclosures. Not on the table.
And I'd say:
10. More wars, except that's foreign policy, which is for the next debate.
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11) Increased domestic
11) Increased domestic surveillance (by NSA, DHS, Google, Verizon, the NYPD, etc.)
12) Record-breaking numbers of arrests and deportations of immigrants.
13) Even greater income inequality.
Glenn Greenwald has a post up
Glenn Greenwald has a post up about how the "hidden" consensus between Romney and Obama must be exposed, as he put it. All I could think of was how long you have been making this point using Robama and Obomney. It's nice that Greenwald is making this point too now, but you have been stressing their Tweedledum and Tweedledee character for some time.
Synthetic outrage
That is well put, because I'm fairly convinced that there is a bipartisan consensus on alternative energy spending, since it is a huge positive for most rural, red state districts. A deal on an energy bill will be struck, keeping it going on a nominal basis, and yes, that energy bill will also include absolutely everything the oil and gas industry want. Just like every energy bill before it.
Romney was just throwing out more of the red meat, it means nothing.
Unless you actually believe what comes out of his (or Obama's) mouth....
You are right to formulate things this way, the unspoken agenda is the one that both are going to follow. Status quo.