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In reply to the discussion: This is not about Obama or Snowden, this is about the corporate takeover of our democracy [View all]Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)I am not trying to say that Obama is without any fault, what I am arguing is that we focus way too much on the faults of an individual and it distracts us from the faults of the system. We like to believe that the President has the power to steer the country in the direction he wants to steer it, what often gets missed however is that there are some unelected people who have so much money and power that they have essentially become more powerful than even the President.
We can go after Obama until he leaves office, but the system will remain in place and then we will start going after the next President, and the next one, and the one after that, all while the real power brokers sit in their corporate suites and laugh because we tear ourselves up over individual people while their system remains firmly in place. We can choose to pretend the NSA scandal is about a single person or we can recognize that it is not about a person but rather about a system.