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In reply to the discussion: Do you think we'll see a female president? [View all]Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)The problem with getting a non-corporatist is that the people who we'd need to change the system are the same people who have benefitted from that system. We'd be asking politicians to challenge the system that brought them to the top. Added to that, the GOP are now simply the political arm of the corporate class in the same way as Scalia et al are the legal arm of the corporate class.
The corruption is in too deep now. Even if you could convince a politician to bite the hand that feeds and challenge the system, the conservative majority on the SCOTUS can just find (i.e. pull out of their ass) that it's unconstitutional and strike down any laws they dislike (Thomas and Alito decide what they want to do, then construct a legal figleaf to justify it; Scalia doesn't even bother disguising it).
An it won't change until everything changes.