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BI-PARTISAN HELL[col. writ. 8/27/18] (c)’18 Mumia Abu-Jamal In much of public discourse today, one hears the call for “bi-partisanship”, as in the nations two corporate political parties, working together to ‘get things done’.’One hears this mostly from corporate media elites, or intellectuals, who decry the lack of civility in today’s politics.What does this mean in the real world? It is a plaintive plea that politicians play nicer. In practice, however, it really means that they unite before their funders to bequeath more and more of the nations’s wealth on them. For the poor, the impoverished, the immigrant and the oppressed, it really means more war on them!  For the wealthy elites ever love disunion among the people; between irrelevancies -like race, ethnicity and social rank. They have ever and always tried to use race, language, age and other perceived differences, to drive workers at each other’s throats. They have ever stoked fear of the Other to secure their class ascendancy. That’s the lesson of Tr