Or how we lost universal health care because of the actions of two people and a lot of money.
The Lie Factory
How politics became a business.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/24/120924fa_fact_lepore
Yes, this is a long article (not sure that the New Yorker can write short ones ;-)), but it should be required reading for anyone interested in politics in the good old USofA. It is very revealing about how the oligarchy (which, after all, has remained more or less continuously in power for millennia) has basically paid a few people to redirect the emotions of the sheeple contrary to their own interests. Frightening, actually, which is why I so highly recommend it. Even though it starts in the early ’30s, it is amazing how relevant it is today. Nothing has actually changed in all that time, at least not for the better.
