Reply #52: How many more

[thingfisher]

of these sleezy bastards (of both parties) have not been and will never be caught! The whole government is filled with a corrupt hoard of greedy humanoids willing to do anything to gain power and wealth. That is why our democracy is in such a sorry mess. The whole system has been co-opted for the sake of the corporate interests that control the means of production, natural resources, economic policy, and virtually all the government regulatory bodies that were originally intended as a check on their power.

It seems that we have come to fully endorse the notion, "The business of America is business" in all of its hideous ramifications or as the cartoonist Al Capp put it (back in the days when actual political satire was allowed), "What's good for General Bullmoose (understood as General Motors) is good for the USA!" In contemporary America the only good is that which increases corporate profits, no matter what the social costs to the nation.
To multinational corporations (many of which began in the USA) there is no greater allegiance demanded than that of profit. Patriotism is a concept to be manipulated for public relations purposes.
So when you have elected officials who must depend on corporate money to be elected you have elected officials who must serve the interests of their corporate sponsors.
The revolving door that has developed between government and industry has virtually insured that corporate influence in the making of policy is here to stay. What hope is there when the people writing government policy belong to the corporations the policy is supposed to regulate?

NONE. This is how we have ended up with all the infrastructure necessary to implement a totalitarian fascist state. Lies and deceit have propelled to the top office a morally bankrupt empty suit who has created an atmosphere of fear designed to facilitate the relinquishment of basic historic freedoms of an electorate too focused on narrow ideological concerns to understand the larger political agenda being pushed forward.

Don't expect Ralph Nader to come riding up on a white horse... that ship has sailed!