This is NOT an election about moving right, left, or to the middle.

[ljm2002]

10. Nonsense.

There is a huge amount of factual information that backs up the use of the term "oligarchy" to describe our present government and the graft that is involved.

During the so-called recovery, 95% of the monetary gains went to the top 1%. 95-fucking-percent. Top 1%. The reality could not be starker.

http://www.businessinsider.com/95-of-income-gains-since-2009-went-to-the-top-1-heres-what-that-really-means-2013-9

95% Of Income Gains Since 2009 Went To The Top 1% — Here's What That Really Means

This month, Berkeley economics professor Emmanuel Saez put out an update to his estimates of income inequality, and the headline figure has everybody outraged: 95% of income gains since 2009 have accrued to the top 1%.

(of course I do not agree with the policy prescriptions contained in the article, but I wanted to use this source as it is not any ultra-liberal or leftist source, and yet they acknowledge the facts about income gains in the recovery)

We had a political scientist last year (I think at MIT) who showed that policy decisions of the government always go the way the elites want, and simply do not track with what the majority of the population wants. At all. Ah, here is another article from businessinsider:

http://www.businessinsider.com/major-study-finds-that-the-us-is-an-oligarchy-2014-4

Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy

The U.S. government does not represent the interests of the majority of the country's citizens, but is instead ruled by those of the rich and powerful, a new study from Princeton and Northwestern universities has concluded.

Both of those facts together DEFINE the term "oligarchy". You cannot just wave your hands and dismiss these facts. You are, as they say, entitled to your own opinion; you are not entitled to your own facts.