There Are No Politics To Our Political System Just Business Transactions

[Jcrowley]

Consequently, there are no politics to our political system, just business transactions taking place behind the curtain of a fraudulent democracy.

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Whether in Belize or America, neither the owners of government nor their subset of social and financial managers are going to respond to any well-reasoned, socially beneficial cause unless they are forced to do so -- with emphasis on the word force. Social progress and a humane environment are antithetical to the success of the owning- and governing-classes in America, both being exactly the same thing in a nation whose Constitution is essentially a guarantee of the rights of property. Things were that way from the beginning, creating a dynastic owning class, not just the Rockerfellers, Bushes, Kennedys, but thousands of discreet regional and local ones across the country which have been in place for a century or more -- longer in places like the South. Regardless of what written law says, they choose which laws will actually be enforced.

More jewels from Joe Bageant:
http://www.worldnewstrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1446&Itemid=10204

Wake up people our politicians gave up representing the people long ago if they ever did.

[qwlauren35]

1. I'm still trying to figure this out.

I think it is still possible to get into the House of Representatives without being OWNED. There just aren't enough of them.

I have seen some of the "machines". Well-greased and lubricated groups of people who work within major organizations, and can motivate the masses by "association" to choose a certain candidate. I think it is the machines that gave the nomination to Kerry.

I don't think Obama is owned. (Kucinich, either.) As such, I think we COULD get representation back, if enough of us cared.

But that's the hard part - getting enough voters to care.