Originally posted by gambit686
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We live in a representative democracy so we vote for our government officials. The same government that is supposed to be "for and by the people". An argument that seems to be more consistent with the facts I see is that the capitalist component of our country has become so powerful that they're able to affect policy in any way they choose, as if they were speaking for vast groups of people. In actuality, they're representing money, not people.
You can be as socially fanatical as you want but if you start trying to affect the money, you are suddenly a communist or worse. If the government tries to intervene as our current administration has, you start hearing sound bites like, "redistribution of wealth", and "gov is the problem", and so on.
Public media is under attack now more than ever while corporate owned media is going great guns. IMO, the downfall of the public trust is an analogy to the downfall of our government trust. While we constantly have to renew ourselves to serve and to be pertinent, the immortal corps always serve their basic charter, PROFIT.
Old money gets bigger and more powerful no matter who represents us.
I'm not going to speak of this anymore as Turpro made a subtle request of me when I came back to this forum. iMazda went through a terrible struggle with politics and I think that at least helped with it's downfall. I have no wish to see CP go down that same road.
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