{"id":84779,"date":"2017-09-27T19:53:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84779"},"modified":"2017-09-27T19:53:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:53:34","slug":"betrayal-drudge-slams-trump-tax-plan-says-illusion-of-party-differences-is-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84779","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Betrayal&#8221;: Drudge Slams Trump Tax Plan, Says &#8220;Illusion Of Party Differences Is Finished&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ubiquitous &#8220;tax cuts for billionaires&#8221; comments from the likes of Schumer and Pelosi, Matt Drudge has seen enough when it comes to President Trump&#8217;s policies. After the leaked details of Trump&#8217;s tax plan suggests higher taxes for many, Drudge took to Twitter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/DRUDGE\/status\/913065314392219648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2017-09-27%2Fbetrayal-drudge-slams-trump-tax-plan-says-illusion-party-differences-finished<\/p>\n<p>His website also led with a scathing headline:\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;More Betrayal Republican Plan to Raise Taxes.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/09\/23\/20170927_drudge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/09\/23\/20170927_drudge_0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Drudge is criticizing the GOP for making concessions to Democrats on taxes and health care,\u00a0<strong>confirming there is no longer an &#8220;illusion&#8221; of difference between the two major parties&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Something we have discussed numerous times.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-07-06\/our-political-parties-are-obsolete\">As Charles Hugh Smith recently exclaimed&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">\u00a0<strong>All the legacy claims of both parties ring false; neither party gives a hoot about the working class, small business or civil liberties. Their entire game plan is to whip up hot-button social issues to distract a fragmented citizenry and arouse last-gasp emotional loyalty to empty slogans.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>Is it any wonder that people are abandoning both parties and claiming Independent status?<\/strong>\u00a0All the core systems of the nation are failing, visibly, painfully, badly, and yet all the parties can dredge up is\u00a0<em>more of the same<\/em>\u00a0and TINA&#8211;<em>there is no alternative<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The citizen who just awakened also awakened to the truth: the legacy parties have no solutions;<\/strong>\u00a0their game plan is to milk the system as long as they can before it collapses in a rotten heap of corruption, fraud, collusion, debt and profiteering that benefits the few at the expense of the many.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When the parties do finally implode, the general mood will be: good riddance.<\/strong>A centralized spoils system is no longer a viable way to govern the nation. Political systems everywhere are facing a choice:\u00a0<em>Decentralize or die.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Drudge tends to delete his tweets soon after releasing them so here it is for posterity&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/09\/23\/20170926_drudge.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/09\/23\/20170926_drudge.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>___<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-09-27\/betrayal-drudge-slams-trump-tax-plan-says-illusion-party-differences-finished\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-09-27\/betrayal-drudge-slams-trump-tax-plan-says-illusion-party-differences-finished<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"node-links\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}