I just heard the perfect example of why we're being hosed by both parties on another thread

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21. K and R this topic.

Back in the day, if something like this Davos Summit was happening, we would have intelligent discussion of the event. And we also would have an Ed Murrow examination via one of his films of what it means to be a nation where a damn 49 cents out of every dollar of profit is going directly into the coffers of the Four Biggest Banks in America, and from there into the pocket of the 85 richest people.

But since most Talking Heads are glitterati themselves, they are only to happy to drool with admiration while on camera over in Davos. And meanwhile, any thinking person knows it is these rich people at Davos that desire to fastrack the TPP. I guess really really stinking rich, is just not rich enough!

If instead of that drool, we were to see the little kids in Africa whose parents have been killed by the Stinger missiles our richest One Percent continually send over to the rebels of other nations, if we could see the effects on a family here in the USA after their home has been foreclosed, if we could see the teenagers who are sent to prison for years, on trumped up charges to help the executives in the Privatized Prison companies, if all those segments of human misery were portrayed on our TVs, rather than Justin Bieber, if that extreme human misery was demonstrated as being the source of the spectacle of luxury at Davos, then maybe we could trust that a better world is coming.