It's happening here, Australia, the UK and others. Bit by bit invisible plutocrats are buying remnants of democracy world-wide and shredding our social fabric because they believe their wealth gives them the right to control everything. They have zero moral authority, but only monetary authority - a shift put into high gear by Citizens United, America's enamoration with consumerism and a new-found worship of a very evil Wall Street.
Many of us saw this cancer on our society metastasize with the dogma of Spiro Agnew, the false populism of Reagan and Republican co-opting of a sector of our churches. Those things shook me to my core but I felt our system of checks and balances would eventually counter-weigh those trends. I've been proven wrong.
We've lost most of our hard-earned old-fashioned common sense and humility gained from two world wars and the Great Depression. Now, we're to a point where too many Americans believe it's perfectly OK for politicians be plutocrats, to lie with every breath and that Trump surely is Jesus' long-lost secret brother.
I'm forever grateful for our Democratic politicians that still are public servants rather than servants of the wealthy. I feel very positive short-term by quite negative long-term.
Enough old-man rant for a cold, rainy Wednesday.....
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