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Old 11-25-2010, 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by MS Fowler View Post
Convicted in accordance with the law of the land.
I don't see repubs defending him, do you?
Why would they? Far far more of them in power than Dermocrats - do what he did, - and far more money is involved with them, big corporate capaign donations, and lobbyists.

Our democracy has become little more than an influence-peddling plutotocracy.

Money rules everything. Corporate lobbyists themselves write many of the laws that affect or regulate their masters, who in turn fund the campaigns of the Congressmen who are supposed to represent US, the people.


Many or the Republican voters permit it because the politicians know how to push the single-issue buttons that mesmerize them, ie, "abortion", "Gun control", "family values", the flag, claim for themselves the exclusive mantle of "patriotism", appeal to paranoia by yelling about communism, socialism, high taxes, security, and "if we don't fight them over there, we will have to fight them over here," etc etc.
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