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In reply to the discussion: Has the Left Surrendered? - BillMoyers.com [View all]pragmatic_dem
(410 posts)two choices. Ironically, the same people who rail against corporate monopolies are in love with political monopolies.
The MBA revolution of the 1980s infected every aspect of life, demanding profit over principals. Every voter is now just a nameless commodity to be exploited for profit.
Politics is a business that sells legislation which can increases your profits. The customer is the 10% who are accumulating 90% of all wealth in the USA. Those 10% are bankrolling our politicians, and they get looked after first.
When Congress speaks, they speak to comfort the rich. When the President speaks, he speaks to comfort the rich. Speech writers are careful to craft politically correct language as if manufacturing a product for an audience of billionaire plutocrats.
The rich believe they are entitled to 10% a year growth in wealth. The rich must constantly be assured that their lavish lifestyles will not be interrupted by any inconvenience as the nation plunges into wars, deeper poverty and growing income disparity.
As a result, adjusted median wage has barely moved since 1970s, a fact which comforts the rich and validates their platinum citizen customer status. And every election, they cash in their reward points.
Our political process is corrupt. An average citizen in the US will only receive accidental representation as a result of overlapping interests of the rich and the non-rich.
It doesn't happen very often, but when it does, it can be confused with progress.