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Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
I think if the American people ever caught on to all of this and united in opposition, crossing and breaking down "party lines" once and for all, all hell would break loose. The corporate big-wigs juust might wind up with some explaining to do.
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You're right about pigeonholing people based on a single-word label. It's another national sport. It allows us to completely dismiss points of view we find uncomfortable. And like pro sports, it sucks up attention better spent on decisions that affect our future.
Both corporate influence and foreign influence are stronger, I think, than they have been in the last 100 years of American politics.
Remember when Eisenhower warned against the "military-industrial complex?" I'm sure you do, but enough people didn't that we got the modern presidency money can buy. Friendly to Tyson Chicken and Worldcom under Clinton; bestest buddies with Enron, Halliburton and ______ Oil under Bush2.
Does it bother anyone else that Martha Stewart has been in prison and Ken Lay is at large?
(some fun stuff here)
http://www.hereinreality.com/enron.html