Democracy Fails: Corporations Win

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Democracy in the United States is only a shadow in a corporate media cave of deceit, lies and incomplete information. We stand ignorant of what the powerful are doing in our name and how the corporate media ignores key issues affecting us all.

A young professional couple from San Diego stated the weekend before the election, "we don't think voting will make any difference so why bother?" Over 80 million eligible voters joined them by refusing to participate in the most recent election. While having been a voter for 35 years, I can't fault them for their logic. November 2 gave us a choice between war and more war, corporate globalization and more corporate globalization, the continuation of gifting billions of dollars to Israel, the Patriot Act and an expanded Patriot Act, a police state and an seriously growing police state, media monopoly and even bigger media monopolies, and wealth inequality or an even greater wealth divide. With the only alternative to these issues being minor candidates without a snowball's chance, for many voting seemed meaningless.

The issues where a choice was offered, abortion, Social Security, and medical care, were so under-covered by the corporate media that most voters still don't understand the differences. Voting ended up being a faith-based decision embedded on visceral reactions to individuals instead of key societal issues.

The real winners November 2 are the military industrial complex, who will continue to feed at the 500 billion-dollar military trough and the corporate media, whose coffers were filled with billions of dollars for campaign ads.

more BS from the "good 'ol US of A"...

ENJOY!!!

Dont give up on the USA, there are many people here that dont believe that the gov is doing everything right. We just need some people to stand behind the old belief of America, the land of the free, home of the brave. And maybe this place can be hte admiration of the world again.

THEY don't have an agenda! Nope! Not at all.

I don't really wanna comment on the above, I find it to be pretty ignorant and all, and since the writer isn't here I can't rip him a new one.

Suffice to say, no.

Originally posted by Amorymeltzer
THEY don't have an agenda! Nope! Not at all.

I don't really wanna comment on the above, I find it to be pretty ignorant and all, and since the writer isn't here I can't rip him a new one.

Suffice to say, no.

am i this writer???

this is a pretty good thread