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In reply to the discussion: Ever get the feeling that virtually nobody with power gives a crap about your life? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)to represent. I don't care about any of them except for a very few anymore either.
But it is OUR fault really. We get the government we deserve. Or at least it is the fault of those who insist on treating them as if they were in some way superior. They are not, far from it. They are, for the most part, from what I have seen over the past decade, selfish, insulated, certain they know better than the dreaded 'people' they supposedly represent.
Those who are not yet millionaires, want to be and the only way they can achieve that goal is to make sure they do nothing to upset the real owners of this country.
There are a few who do care about the people, but they have no power, the rest of them make sure they never will.
We COULD change that, but partisanship, something the FFs warned about, makes that impossible. Until the PEOPLE unite and stop fighting among themselves, nothing will change. It's up to us, we have the numbers, we have the power, but we are busy being distracted by trivia and then there are those who will excuse anything their respective parties do and makes it impossible to actually use the power we have.
Anyone who thinks that they care about us, only has to look at what went on after the financial collapse. Congress did everything they could possibly do to protect the criminals who caused it, while allowing the working class to fail. And we let them do it.
We could elect working class people to represent us, but we are told that the millionaires who are ensconced in DC are our best choice and kept in a state of fear of the 'other side' winning in order to ensure that they system never changes, with our assistance.