President Obama's call for Bipartisanship

President Obama explained why he is so Hopey-Bipartisaney: he is waiting for Republicans to realize that they will want to align themselves to a popular Democratic President, in order to get re-elected. He said in his Republican Meeting, "In fact, the Republican candidate for the Governor of Illinois is running ads right now, where he says he agrees with the President. Poor guy," (wry grin from Obama).

The thing is, if you're not a "popular ... President", no one is going to want to align themselves with you. And right now you become popular by getting things done, and kicking some asses if you have to. Kick their asses NOW ... get more popular ... and they'll come back with, "All is forgiven. Endorse me."

You will get more popular with Congressional Republicans and Corporatist Democrats if you first become real unpopular with them. It's like a Chinese Finger Puzzle: in order to get your fingers apart, first you have to move them closer together. It seems counter-intuitive, but it works.

The Power of Prisons

Even though we tend to think of Republicans/Corporatists as single-mindedly money-hungry, I think they are willing to make less money as long as they get to vilify brown people.

Instead of taxing legalized pot, and emptying the prisons of their non-violent pot-convicted inmates, thus saving money not having to house those prisoners, the Republicans/Corporatists have decided it is more "valuable" to keep those dangerous brown-skinned law-breakers behind bars ... where they obviously belong, because they 'broke the law".

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Abolish the drug possession laws, and those browns will be able to walk around in decent society. Unthinkable!
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