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You continue to be a real dope!
Shred the Constitution?
By simply advocating for background checks on weapon sales??
You think the Martians are coming??
The Earth is 6000 years old?
Dinosaurs played with cave men in their idle time?
You'd rather have an ignorant pompous buffoon sitting in the office??
God help America (any god...please).

Umm.... You believe there is somewhere there are no background checks? Ok?!?!? God help us from uninformed liberal NUTJOBS.... Who ask for help from God, while not even believing in him, but that's for another day.
 




















You really have a one-track, one-dimensional, narrow mind. What.... Did you recently open a fortune cookie that said "reverse totalitarianism"?
You need to broaden your horizons.

Antidemocracy, executive predominance, and elite rule are basic elements of inverted totalitarianism. Antidemocracy does not take the form of overt attacks upon the idea of government by the people. Instead, politically it means encouraging what I have earlier dubbed “civic demobilization,” conditioning an electorate to being aroused for a brief spell, controlling its attention span, and then encouraging distraction or apathy. The intense pace of work and the extended working day, combined with job insecurity, is a formula for political demobilization, for privatizing the citizenry. It works indirectly. Citizens are encouraged to distrust their government and politicians; to concentrate upon their own interests; to begrudge their taxes; and to exchange active involvement for symbolic gratifications of patriotism, collective self-righteousness, and military prowess. Above all, depoliticization is promoted through society’s being enveloped in an atmosphere of collective fear and of individual powerlessness: fear of terrorists, loss of jobs, the uncertainties of pension plans, soaring health costs, and rising educational expenses.
Sheldon S. Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
 




Antidemocracy, executive predominance, and elite rule are basic elements of inverted totalitarianism. Antidemocracy does not take the form of overt attacks upon the idea of government by the people. Instead, politically it means encouraging what I have earlier dubbed “civic demobilization,” conditioning an electorate to being aroused for a brief spell, controlling its attention span, and then encouraging distraction or apathy. The intense pace of work and the extended working day, combined with job insecurity, is a formula for political demobilization, for privatizing the citizenry. It works indirectly. Citizens are encouraged to distrust their government and politicians; to concentrate upon their own interests; to begrudge their taxes; and to exchange active involvement for symbolic gratifications of patriotism, collective self-righteousness, and military prowess. Above all, depoliticization is promoted through society’s being enveloped in an atmosphere of collective fear and of individual powerlessness: fear of terrorists, loss of jobs, the uncertainties of pension plans, soaring health costs, and rising educational expenses.
Sheldon S. Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism

Yes, we get it. You just read a book by Sheldon S. Wolin, and now you are a self-promoting expert on cutting-n-pasting his material on "inverted totalitarianism"
Now, please, let's move on. Broaden your scope.
 
















The old R&D argument is pure bull. R&D operations at big pharma companies have been a near-constant target of job cuts, especially at large firms like AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Allergan, Novartis, and Amgen

http://www.biopharmadive.com/news/3-major-trends-driving-layoffs-in-biotech-and-pharma/399484/

The intense pace of work and the extended working day, combined with job insecurity, is a formula for political demobilization, for privatizing the citizenry.
 




Does this "research" include faking studies, data manipulation, hiding 10,000 side effects nearly 4000 of them serious & paying some shill 100K annually to do a trial comparing a 30 year old ACEI to a combination of 2 newer drugs with a whopping 4.7% improvement over said 3 decade old medicine?
Don't forget BILLIONS with a B spent on marketing the plethora of Me Too 'breakthroughs'
The NIH & public research institutions discover more molecules than all pharma combined. Fancy that ;)

How's 2007 working out for you? Me too's are few and far between these days. The improvement between the two therapeutic options that you reference equates to billions saved by CMS. It's not much to you apparently but the federal bean counters were clearly moved by it. Also, the patient's who benefit from the med are quite enthusiastic to share their experiences when they see me in a offices. But that doesn't fit your narrative, eh?
 




And just wait until the democrats (who are not pro-pharmaceutical companies) take over. One of their primary initiatives is to challenge price fixing of pharmaceuticals. You also have desire for one large single-payer system like Medicare which will be so prohibitively expensive (when this happens) your W2 will not know what hit it. It will be a very definite game changer for sure.
 




And just wait until the democrats (who are not pro-pharmaceutical companies) take over. One of their primary initiatives is to challenge price fixing of pharmaceuticals. You also have desire for one large single-payer system like Medicare which will be so prohibitively expensive (when this happens) your W2 will not know what hit it. It will be a very definite game changer for sure.
YEY!!!!!!!!!
tick tock
 








And just wait until the democrats (who are not pro-pharmaceutical companies) take over. One of their primary initiatives is to challenge price fixing of pharmaceuticals. You also have desire for one large single-payer system like Medicare which will be so prohibitively expensive (when this happens) your W2 will not know what hit it. It will be a very definite game changer for sure.

Bullshit.

All talk but never action.