Reply #46: "maybe our pretend democracy is held hostage by this grave possibility and that’s why our

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maybe our pretend democracy is held hostage by this grave possibility and that’s why our corporately owned politicians pander to the capitalist so much".

I have often wondered what is the precise mechanism by which our elected leader seem to held hostage to the PTB. The simplest answer is that it is simply a matter of politics -- the PTB will help them get elected if they play ball, and will help their opponents get elected if they don't. But I think that that is too simple an answer, and that simple politics is not enough to account for the magnitude of the problem. It often seems to me that true explanation is a lot similar than that.

Your example about the Rosenburgs is very similar to Sybil's point about the big deal that we make out of our "War on Drugs", and yet we let the big fish go.