2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: DU is becoming an example of what is wrong with our political system [View all]Dustlawyer
(10,532 posts)interests which have subverted our Democracy and who have, through campaign donations and other less legal avenues, been able to control our politicians and have the laws written to their benefit. They have rendered the regulatory agencies toothless and become above the law. Their greed and lust for power knows no bounds. They have no empathy for the rest of us.
History shows us where this leads, it's just a matter of how bad things have to get before the people have had we enough. We currently have an opportunity to get back our Representative Democracy if enough people have realized the truth of our situation. TPTB have the MSM to spew their propaganda and at least delay the inevitable, but change will come!
It hurts to see how many are still deluded in thinking that electing someone like Hillary, who couldn't be more "Establishment" if she tried, would help protect the 99%! The bottom line is that to restore Democracy and solve our myriad of problems we must eliminate the ability to legally bribe our politicians! Bernie knows first hand how this corruption has turned us into an oligarchical Fascist state.
When Bernie says we need a political revolution he is correct in every sense of the words. A cabal of special interests control OUR GOVERNMENT and we must take that power away from them. They will fight as hard as they can to defeat us. Hillary is part of the propaganda, someone who appears to work for us but does their bidding on the issues important to them. Obama is the same type of ruler, he throws us bones from the table, stuff TPTB don't care about, or what they think they must to keep up the illusion of Democracy. They keep us fighting the symptoms of the root problem, Gay rights, climate change, immigration, guns..., but not the root problem itself, campaign finance. If we ever can work together to institute Publicly Funded Elections we can break their control. Keeping us divided has been the way they have chosen to maintain power and it is working. Fox Bots are not the only victims of the propaganda, just the most obvious.
This Presidential election is different as we finally have a leader to help focus us to attack the root problem, not a group of candidates all willing to take the corporate money and do the bidding of TPTB! I hope We can pull it off because I am tired of living under corporate rule!
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