Unfortunately, last nigt I caught Johnathan Turley on CNN where he was expressing support for

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5. Remember, tho, the Republican Party is no longer one of the big

decision makers. Its leaders mostly agree to please those who are or face being replaced with new agents who will. Just look at their almost suicidal behavior right now. Their big donors are insisting on return on investment, and if it looks like conservative voters are going to toss some of them out, their donors will just put their replacements on thesame ballot.

Our planet's wealth has literally quadrupled since the 1970s, probably half of it accumulated right here in our nation, and almost all of that going into the pockets of a few.

This isn't the America we grew up in. And neither party has anything like the power they once had to help direct this nation, although they could once again. Registered voters now top 200 million,and the wannabe kleptocrats know that very well.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. -- Louis D. Brandeis back in the 1920s-30s