ruveyn wrote:
Quartz11 wrote:
It doesn't matter who gets elected, it's all a sham anyway.
The United States is a corporatocracy, the candidates are mere puppets for corporate interests and lobbyists doing their bidding. There is little difference between a Republican or a Democrat. The Republican makes it way too obvious they're in bed with money. The Democrat at least hides the act better.
Aside from a few people like Bernie Sanders, Dennis Kucinich, etc... there is nothing worthy in major government offices to pay attention to.
Sanders and Kucinich want to share wealth they did not produce. That is the problem with socialism. It is based on the zero sum game concept and redistribution of scarcity. It does not deal with growing the wealth to be shared.
ruveyn
I'm not even worried so much on the issue of wealth redistribution and socialism. Just more on the fact they believe that:
- power is in the hands of too few, mostly corporate types and investment bankers. People who are more than willing to screw over the general population to enhance their own salaries and the profit margins of whatever they contribute to
- the massive amounts of greed developing since 1980, and gone considerably worse in the last decade, is detrimental for the common American and their ability to live comfortably
Personally I think that deregulation has been an epic failure for the American middle class. Because this has given corporate power a blank check to do whatever the hell it wants.
26 Jun 2010, 3:50 pm
