Most Americans who are awake realize that we, the people, are not in charge of our government anymore. Although about half of the eligible voters vote, we have few real choices after the "political parties" present their candidates to us. Even during the primaries, the massive corporate propaganda media machine keeps our thinking in line so they don't lose what they have control over - namely us. Many states with Republican controlled Congresses have even canceled the primaries for next year. This gives the corporate puppets much stronger influence over who gets nominated.
In today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, writers Michael Cudahy and Jock Gill say
Stop the plutocracy!In this opinion piece, they provided these comments:
Recently Kevin Phillips, former chief political strategist for Richard Nixon and author of "Wealth and Democracy," said he no longer believes that democracy even exists in this country, but has in fact been replaced by a plutocracy -- a government controlled by its wealthiest individuals to promote their own specific agenda.
... It has now taken over politics, and takes it over on both sides when money not only talks, money screams.
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What has happened is that the rich in this country have decided that they are willing to spend whatever it takes not just to buy an occasional senator or congressman, not the president or the vice president, but the entire system. They have purchased laws and government contracts, tax loopholes and the White House. And, they have shielded their purchases in layers of executive and governmental protections.
And what are the implications of this corrupt purchase?Well, intelligent people don't have to think too hard to figure that out, although the writers do provide their opinion.
We have little doubt that the vast majority of middle-class voters would embrace a presidential candidate who stepped forward and expressed positions designed to restore their position of strength in American society.
A candidate who understands that Americans hunger for boldness and innovation. A candidate who understands that the power of ideas, eloquently articulated will defeat money, and its plutocracy, in this arid climate of greed and acquisition.
It is what Teddy Roosevelt would do.
Is there one out there?Yes, there is one, but only one!
Dennis Kucinich!