Reply #96: The necessary illusions of so-called rep democracy fade as corporate power grinds life into dust

[Echo In Light]

... and actually, it's at this point when it becomes most eerie, watching scores of people choose to remain in denial over the obvious. It also explains a lot of widespread, free-floating contempt and anger one experiences...the reality of it all, and in all the ways it manifests itself, bearing down upon the illusory, failed democratic experiment of the U.S. This in part is why the unwavering 'cheerleader' crowd of the Name Brand parties have become so rabid and short-fused as they run out speculative possibilities (that dance around the obvious, that our Reps serve corporate power, not The People) to explain what's occurring.