meet the new boss, same as the old boss

Chris Hedges has a thing for Uncle Ralphie. Like all such affairs, it can only end badly:

...“The more outrageous the Republicans become, the weaker the left becomes,” Nader said when I reached him at his home in Connecticut on Sunday. “The more outrageous they become, the more the left has to accept the slightly less outrageous corporate Democrats.”

“The left has nowhere to go,” Nader said. “Obama knows it. The corporate Democrats know it. There will be criticism by the left of Obama this year and then next year they will all close ranks and say ‘Do you want Mitt Romney? Do you want Sarah Palin? Do you want Newt Gingrich?’ It’s very predictable. There will be a year of criticism and then it will all be muted. They don’t understand that even if they do not have any place to go, they ought to fake it. They should fake going somewhere else or staying home to increase the receptivity to their demands. But because they do not make any demands, they are complicit with corporate power.

“Corporate power makes demands all the time,” Nader went on. “It pulls on the Democrats and the Republicans in one direction. By having this nowhere-to-go mentality and without insisting on demands as the price of your vote, or energy to get out the vote, they have reduced themselves to a cipher. They vote. The vote totals up. But it means nothing.”

There is no major difference between a McCain administration, a Bush and an Obama administration. Obama, in fact, is in many ways worse. McCain, like Bush, exposes the naked face of corporate power. Obama, who professes to support core liberal values while carrying out policies that mock these values, mutes and disempowers liberals, progressives and leftists. Environmental and anti-war groups, who plead with Obama to address their issues, are little more than ineffectual supplicants...

C'mon, sir, where have you been? This is news?

The difference between the Republicans and the Democrats? One, a group of sanctimonious hateful racist ruthless company whores pretending to be religiously moral, the other a group of myopic ruthless fecklessly hypocritical company whores pretending to liberal morality?

Or should we vote for Ralphie, the cult of green personality? Yet that's hemoglobin in those veins, not chlorophyll.

Real liberation only works on a personal level. You just keep on looking for the right Leader. I am sure you will get led, righteously.