Reply #111: We aren't talking about the past nineteen years

[MadHound]

The articles I've linked to above are about THIS YEAR'S election campaign, and how Kerry's corporate backers are donating well over $100,000 in bundled donations. Do you understand the concept of bundling? You know, that little trick that allowed Ken Lay and Enron to have so much influence over Bushco. It is the same stunt that Kerry is pulling. It is how the modern political campaign is run.

I'm not talking about nineteen year old history here, I'm talking about NOW. But you would seemingly rather live in the past, where politicians were pure and clean, than deal with the reality of here and now, where the vast majority of politicians, Kerry included, are nothing more than coroprate whores playing good cop/bad cop with the American people while they continue to grind us to dust and bleed us dry. Wake Up!

The biggest part of the problems in our government today is that so many people want to remain willfully blind, so they don't have to bother with politics. This is the attitude that has gotten this country into the nasty place it is now. The only thing that will save us is if people wake the fuck up and demand their government back. But damn, so many would rather worry about American Idol, or fantasize about Britney Speers than deal with the ugly reality of a government out of control, sold down the river to corporate interests.

Recall your history friend, remember the period in our history called the Gilded Age, where the letter behind a politician's name didn't matter, either way the regular Joe was going to get screwed anyway. Well guess what, we are now in the Second Gilded Age(read Kevin Phillip's book "Wealth and Democracy" for more insight on this phenomenon), and once again, being a Dem or 'Pug doesn't matter, for all are corporate whores.