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>Moyers: Our Democracy Is Flatlined - Moneyed Interests and Politics  - Jesse - Le Cafe Américain
The author seems to have no knowledge concerning this nation and its Constitution (USC).
1. The word democracy doesn't exist in the USC.
2. Some famous guy said something to the effect of: The opinions of 10,000 men mean nothing if they don't know anything about the subject.
3. It is always about the money.
4. If you haven't anted up to be in the game, shut up!
5. The vast majority of citizens gambled with borrowed money and lost.
5A. Nobody forced, coerced or demanded that these citizens borrow money.
5B. The bankers were your buddy when they loaned you the money. Now they are the enemy for requiring it be paid back.

Why would any logical person listen to someone who can't do basic math about anything to do with what used to be correctly called, "Political Economy"?

Now are thing screwed up? Yep.
How did this happen? Politicians listened to deadbeats. After all, deadbeats vote and usually for whomever will give them something for nothing.


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Beginning of the headline :"There was a Princeton study by Martin Gilens and Ben Page. The largest empirical study of actual policy decisions by our government in the history of our government. And what they did is they related our actual decisions to what the economic elite care about, what the organized interest groups care about, and what the average voter cares about. And when they look at the economic elite, you know, as the percentage of economic elite who support an idea goes up, the probability of it pa... Read More
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