The two party system is a tool of the status quo. As of two weeks ago, I'm no longer a member of the Democratic party. I used to be a straight party voter. What that has gotten me, is a party that takes my vote for granted, a party that plays on my fear of the right getting in office, all the while capitulating to the right! What the fuck?
Personally, I think our voting process is so compromised on so many levels that I don't believe we will regain the People's power through the ballot box. Gerrymandering, voter disenfranchisement, Citizens United, electronic voting, voter apathy. 
Our party & the entire political system have been co-opted by big money. Thursday night I watched "The Corporation" for the third time. They are the most powerful entity on the planet. Until we rein the corporate behemoths in, we don't stand a chance. They are a tool for the 1% to behave however they want without consequence.
Supreme Court Rules Drug Companies Exempt from Lawsuits in 5-4 Vote:
Monsanto Strategy?
July 2013
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_27940.cfm
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In a 5 to 4 vote, the US Supreme Court has absolved pharmaceutical companies, and over 80 percent of all drugs prescribed in the US, of legal liability for a long list of ill deeds including fraud, mislabeling, side effects and accidental death.
This decision happened as a response to a lower court's ruling concerning a victim who took a pharmaceutical drug and had a severely adverse reaction that caused the patient to be completely disfigured when the drug caused a flesh-eating side effect. The side effect was known by the drug maker and yet, was not labeled. The lower court ruled that the drug maker would have to label all future drugs with this side effect but the Supreme Court left the corporations who make these drugs completely exempt from future lawsuits, and said the victim 'had no legal grounds to sue.'
Karen Bartlett tried to sue Mutual Pharmaceutical Company after taking an anti-inflammatory drug called Sulindac due to a sore shoulder. It was this drug that caused 'toxic epidermal necrolysis' just three weeks after taking the pharmaceutical. Her flesh began to peel off so badly it resembled a third degree burn.
How is it that pharmaceutical companies can continue to put people's health in jeopardy in such atrocious ways without being culpable?
Wait until the TPP goes into effect. They won't even need supreme court rulings then.
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