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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Names Names [View all]90-percent
(6,828 posts)When the Glided Age became engorged with the overly rich and powerful, Teddy R. busted the trusts.
When the great depression needed to be repaired by the damage done by the rich and powerful, Franklin Delano got in and cleaned it up.
The rich have spent the last thirty years gaming everything in their favor at the expense of the bottom 99%. They own the media, they get fairness acts over turned, they get Glass Steagal overturned, they underwrite hate radio, they set legal precedents that it perfectly fine to knowingly lie in your news broadcasts. They've stripped almost all democracy out of our legal infrastructure to work in their favor. They've turned American news broadcasts into Corporate Propaganda.
Mitt Romney gets to put in a half million a year into his 401K and we peasants are legally restricted to, what, $6K per year?
And now they turned money into speech and corporations into people. Those with the most money have the most speech. Just what our Forefathers envisioned!
The only hope I see is that the greedy and powerful will overstep the rights and well being of the bottom 99% so nakedly and obscenely that we the people will rise up in revolt. As we will by then have nothing left to loose but our lives.
-90% Jimmy