tcreeley wrote on 08/02/14 at 10:40:01:Money and power ='s break any laws you want, and also equals write any laws you want, and buy the Supreme Court.
We have good republicans and good democrats. But we also have the lousy ones.
The lousy ones are the one that outsource our jobs overseas, that give tax breaks to the wealthiest, waste tax dollars on stupid contracts. They gave is Nafta, Cafta, and the current ones they are slipping past us - Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPA) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union.
These are not good for regular Americans, republican or democrat. These are for the wealthy 1% and higher.
Neocons and neoliberals. These are the folks bringing us to financial ruin and a staggering economy while they make their trillions through investments around the world.
They are "bi-partisan" slugs pushing global capitalism.
For regular working people, it is a race to the bottom.
I think some run on the belief they can change things, however.....
The cost to mount and execute a successful campaign through the primary and into the general election is so prohibitive you will have sold part of yourself to the bidding of others....
It is true we still can "fix it" through voting, but way too many folk are those "neo" as you refer, only pulling the lever for their party regardless of candidate, and we see the results.
Of course the media loves the status quo as it generates much wealth to them.
If we look at this in a much smaller example, all of us view our beliefs as trump, gee, ain't that why we hold them
But often our perception of self is not true in how others perceive us, even tho most of what we do is trying to convince them as such.
If we view ourselves through the prism of what others believe/see about us, I dare say we could really learn the truth about who we might really be....
Use that analogy and reason to view our nation/politics through the eyes of a different country, reading their news of us, etc, and I will bet you get a whole different perspective than what we think we are