Where have you been!?!?!?!?!?
Congress has "deliberately, knowingly, and unabashedly sacrificed their Constitutional responsibility to protect the rights of the people" so many times and for so many years that if violation of thier oath of office, there is enough public record to convict just about every current or former senator or representatiive still living!
I agree with you that they shouldn't be protecting the rights of corporations - but they do because it is corporations that pay to get them elected. The only way we currently have to stpo it is to make enough noice that the idiots in office worry about some other moron with backing from different corporations getting elected next time. Then they back off.
Democrats...Republicans...sell your soul to one special interest group or another. I vote republican, the rich get perks, and we end up with a police state. I vote democrat, and the only difference is who gets the perks, which special interests benefit, and which of my rights are violated, undermined, and eliminated.
So long as this nation operates on a system where legislation is a product of money, this will not change no matter who you elect. No candidate that hasn't sold his soul has a chance of getting elected because advertising works.
It can be fixed - maybe - but which puppet you elect is largley inconsequential on that front. It only effects the general direction of the erosion. Do you want morality outlawed? Or would you rather have a scrict set of moral behaviors legislated with huge penalties? Neither side is offering freedom.
Follow the money - break that, and you fix it. The problem is not WHICH party - it is that political power in this country is focused on "parties" in the first place. Does your vote matter? Really? Only if it is part of the largest herd of media-driven cattle at the time.
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Where have you been!?!?!?!?!? Congress has "deliberately, knowingly, and unabashedly sacrificed their Constitutional responsibility to protect the rights of the people" so many times and for so many years that if violation of thier oath of office, there is enough public record to convict just about every current or former senator or representatiive still living! I agree with you that they shouldn't be protecting the rights of corporations - but they do because it is corporations that pay to get them elected. The only way we currently have to stpo it is to make enough noice that the idiots in office worry about some other moron with backing from different corporations getting elected next time. Then they back off.
Democrats...Republicans...sell your soul to one special interest group or another. I vote republican, the rich get perks, and we end up with a police state. I vote democrat, and the only difference is who gets the perks, which special interests benefit, and which of my rights are violated, undermined, and eliminated.
So long as this nation operates on a system where legislation is a product of money, this will not change no matter who you elect. No candidate that hasn't sold his soul has a chance of getting elected because advertising works.
It can be fixed - maybe - but which puppet you elect is largley inconsequential on that front. It only effects the general direction of the erosion. Do you want morality outlawed? Or would you rather have a scrict set of moral behaviors legislated with huge penalties? Neither side is offering freedom.
Follow the money - break that, and you fix it. The problem is not WHICH party - it is that political power in this country is focused on "parties" in the first place. Does your vote matter? Really? Only if it is part of the largest herd of media-driven cattle at the time.