Please forgive my simpleminded question

[sabrina 1]

20. I doubt most of them give much thought to those issues. For them it's about

class and money. IF you're part of THEIR very small group, and you're Gay, it won't matter to them. Or Black, or a Woman.

But I do agree with your second sentence:

"And by having these serious differences they know they can keep us fighting between left and right while they get what they want on things that do matter to them"

Absolutely, they have to keep the illusion of democracy going so that the people don't notice that both parties will make sure to support THEM on the issues that really do matter to them.

So, they 'allow' their employees in the Dem Party to support minority rights, even get a bill or so to the floor, maybe even passed.

For their Repub emploees in Congress, they get the anti-minority rights issues and as you said, we the people keep fighting over those issues while they are passing, as Clinton did, legislation that benefits THEM.

It didn't dawn on me how the game was played until I began to notice that each time a bill we wanted to pass came up, Repubs naturally would vote against it, and always, just enough Dems to help it get passed.

Then the next time such a bill comes, different Dems get to vote for it to help the Repubs get it through.

I realized finally what a game it is, while we remain divided and NOT talking about the stuff they are pushing through.

One perfect example of this was Gays in the Military. I thought that would pass in Jan 2009 because we had a majority for one thing, and most Americans were in favor of it. I was shocked when Obama's DOJ fought the court ruling saying it was unconstitutional for Gays to be denied that right.

It made no sense. At the same time, the Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy was coming up for renewal. I thought they would end, everyone did.

Instead, all of a sudden they are talking about Gays in the Military, but 'he had to extend the Bush tax cuts or it wouldn't have passed'.

So I realized they intended to extend the Bush Tax Cuts but knew it would be very controversial, By holding up the Gays in the Military issue until it could be used as a bargaining chip, it lessened the outrage over the extension of the Bush tax cuts.

It's all a game to them. We are not even players, just spectators, and only to what they allow us to see.