I do NOT understand. It is US.

[BelgianMadCow]

I do NOT understand how such a statement as the one we're getting our panties in a wad about can be called an amendment. It amends nothing in the actual bill, it just gets tacked on.

I do NOT understand how in the US bills become a mixture of several different topics, confusing the issues and opening up for all kinds of strong-arm tactics.

I do NOT understand corporations can donate to candidates. We outlawed it in the eighties. Corporate lobbying and a concentrated media are the rot in your system.

I do NOT understand how DU, being well informed people who see the corporate media for what they are, who bicker about the media trying to distract from the REAL issues with OJ, Anna Nicole, missing blondes etc
can do exactly the same, ALLOW themselves to be distracted and be divided in the process.

DU can do better, and I do not mean lockstep thinking or absence of debate. A good debate has two sides. But remains polite and fact based, and is about issues that really MATTER.

I DO understand that the question whether your elected(?) leaders are actually representing your interests, is one of those issues that matter.

But I recall the Randi Rhodes saying when she got to the Hill on several occasions "you cannot fathom how difficult the circumstances are when the press is totally biased". It clearly gave her a different perspective.
I would suggest that discussion of the fundamental rot in the system is much more likely to bring something than being totally absorbed by the people who live on the belt.

It is US who have the numbers and the buying power.
It is US who are lured into believing we need things we never needed before.
It is US who cannot help being attracted by topics on sex, murder and frivolity.
It is US who have the power to strike.
It is US who are the governed, whose consent is essential to those in power.

Blaming all that is wrong on the measly number of people in Congress is closing your eyes to our OWN responsibility.

Don't consent anymore.

[BelgianMadCow]

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