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cali

(114,904 posts)
Wed May 27, 2015, 05:00 PM May 2015

do 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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Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
2. I had to vote "no / support Bernie"
Wed May 27, 2015, 05:02 PM
May 2015

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!"

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
5. It's certainly the underlying problem behind many of our problems.
Wed May 27, 2015, 05:23 PM
May 2015

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)
6. exactly. There's a chance to fix other things if you fix that.
Wed May 27, 2015, 05:27 PM
May 2015

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)
9. The people who control the money control everything
Wed May 27, 2015, 07:06 PM
May 2015

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.

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)
7. Yes, the big moneyers and corporateers created most of the serious problems facing us today.
Wed May 27, 2015, 05:35 PM
May 2015

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)
8. How can anyone think corporate control over our political system isnt a most serious problem?!
Wed May 27, 2015, 06:40 PM
May 2015

Seriously? Anyone? Im at a loss.

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