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Dustlawyer

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13. I will give you three reasons:

Sun Dec 17, 2017, 01:10 PM

Dec 2017

1. The rise of huge multi-nationals with limitless money and influence;
2. Their ability to buy politicians of both Parties with campaign contributions, Super PACs, Dark Money and the Revolving Door; and
3. Corporate media and it's propaganda not limited by truth but posing as news. They have "programmed" a large percentage of disaffected Americans into believing whatever their "news sources' tell them to believe.

We no longer have Representative Democracy, they represent Donors instead. Regulatory Agencies are run by the industries they regulate.

We are controlled by a shadow government of corporations and the ultra-wealthy. Sounds crazy I know, but it is true! Our system is tailor made for this!

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LAT Brutal Op-Ed: America still hasn't reckoned with the election of a reckless con man as president [View all] kpete Dec 2017 OP

Excellent op-ed. The point is that even if we rid ourselves of Trump The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2017 #1

IMHO, his election was made possible Perseus Dec 2017 #14

Nice rant LiberalLovinLug Dec 2017 #22

Agree - a great intelligent rant. We are being bred to be dumb and susceptible erronis Dec 2017 #25

Still, one cannot minimize Putin's disinformation campaign against Hillary dalton99a Dec 2017 #2

But we still have to think about why that disinformation was believed The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2017 #5

+1 dalton99a Dec 2017 #6

It was a slow burn LiberalLovinLug Dec 2017 #28

It was a continuation and further expansion of the RW narrative ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #33

I think a lot of people underestimate that part RandomAccess Dec 2017 #8

The damage has been and is being done that we may never recover from for decades if ever. FreeStateDemocrat Dec 2017 #3

Do not underestimate 30 years of rightwing propaganda radio and TV. AJT Dec 2017 #4

VERY important point. One that isn't being addressed RandomAccess Dec 2017 #9

I HATE pictures of text, and it isn't very friendly to adaptive tech Sentath Dec 2017 #20

You can google it. RandomAccess Dec 2017 #30

No original copy yet, but a decent reaction Sentath Dec 2017 #31

FU Sykes. tazkcmo Dec 2017 #29

Absolutely - people were brainwashed dalton99a Dec 2017 #10

In a nutshell. dchill Dec 2017 #15

K & R SunSeeker Dec 2017 #7

Very good article, but I have to disagree Perseus Dec 2017 #11

Another big undercurrent not fooled Dec 2017 #16

Agree. But to ask another question: How are we going to communicate like this erronis Dec 2017 #26

I suspect 2naSalit Dec 2017 #12

I will give you three reasons: Dustlawyer Dec 2017 #13

Yep not fooled Dec 2017 #17

Maybe they should analyze the integrity of the vote counting too. L. Coyote Dec 2017 #18

Hand wringing LAT. Didn't have a problem carrying water for those same criminals in 2016. ffr Dec 2017 #19

Did Dorfman write any of the water carrying articles? stevenleser Dec 2017 #24

Dunno ffr Dec 2017 #32

K&R Puzzler Dec 2017 #21

K and R BadgerMom Dec 2017 #23

K&R smirkymonkey Dec 2017 #27