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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsdo you think big money and corporate influence and control
over our political system and public policy is the most serious and pressing problems facing this country?
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PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)it's not because this problem isn't a gigantic problem - it absolutely is - but that there are so many gigantic problems that picking one as 'the biggest" just doesn't work!
it's like a mouth full of rotten abscessed teeth. You can't really say "Oh, well, this molar is the big problem!"
cali
(114,904 posts)Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)And simply fixing that would be a logjam breaker to allow a cascade of other fixes, but there still are other major problems that have been problems going back all the way to the founding of the country that are not really corporation-dependent.
cali
(114,904 posts)oligarchy prevents that. And anyone denying that we live in an oligarchy at this moment in history, in this society, is blind or brainwashed.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and it has been true forever
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws." Mayer Rothschild (1744-1812)
And to quote Nomi Prins, either we break them or they will break us.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)If they were forced to sit down, shut up and ride in the back of the bus the rest of us would be able to actually repair the damage they have done.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)Seriously? Anyone? Im at a loss.