There Is Only One Issue In America
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-van-zandt/democracy-in-america_b_1139463.html
A couple of great quotes in this article:
The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.
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…the amazing Orwellian staple of every newscast, selling the public on the lie that the Dow has somehow become America’s scoreboard!
We’re all hypnotized, rooting for them like they’re our home team at a football game, cheering for THEIR scoreboard mindlessly forgetting WE’RE THE AWAY TEAM!!
I feel the same thing: we must eliminate the money from politics in order to have any prayer of changing things so we can get a representative democracy. Until the money is eliminated, fixing Gerrymandering is irrelevant, so is adding third parties, reforming the way votes are cast and counted, etc., etc., etc.
As the author states, this should be the principle that unites the Tea Party with OWS, but somehow I doubt the oligarchy will stand by and allow something like this to reach critical mass.
