For those that quote Benjamin Franklin...why aren't you consistent?

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18. Ben's possibly apocryphal statement

Has been proven true, we could not keep it, corporations and the MIC have taken the reigns, and are the true powers in this country.
While we fight over firearms and ideas of womens reproductive rights and drone strikes, the truly rich continue to pull away in the race. The working poor and middle class stagnate, and in a society like ours stagnation is decline. the PTB have set us against each other to squabble over minutiae while they rob us, rape the planet, destroy nations, cultures and people and feast on the result of our labors.
The disgusting joke of corporate personhood, the perversion of taking an amendment that was to make men free, and using it to enslave steal and murder... This alone shows we have failed to keep our Republic.