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thenewgreen  ·  3686 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Obama is a Republican

I agree with everything you wrote. I recently made a comment here that if I could take my vote back in the last election, I would have changed it to a Romney vote. I sincerely believe that it makes little to no difference between the two candidates. However, with Romney I saw a pretty liberal track record in Massachusetts. He would have pleasantly surprised me as opposed to constantly disappointing me.

But yeah, they're all shades of the same color. I'm not accustomed to quoting Chomsky, but this seems about right to me:

    The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....