I question the value of all this exercise of language when everyone else is yelling equally loudly. We are all in denial about the terrible things that are carried out daily in our name, such as the drones that are right now circling above watching your every move and sending information about your entertainment choices and refrigerator contents to violent children who sit in front of high resolution screens waiting for you to reveal your role in a terrorist organization. Their judgement is informed by behavior analysis systems and the certainty that all things are resolved by an elderly white man with a long flowing beard who sits on a golden throne.
The drone program that Obama has augmented so drastically beyond what now looks in comparison like Bush's relative restraint is a shocking national disgrace. Unfortunately, it is unlikely to be diminished when and if Hillary inherits the title of Commander in Chief. Both President Obama and future potential President Clinton are subject to the same pressure to prove that they're one of the boys.
Bernie Sanders would shut it down.
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