Reply #218: That question makes sense.

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The vast majority of Americans want universal health care. But we don't have it. Why?

The vast majority of Americans want us to get out of Iraq. Yet we are still there. Why?

The list goes on and on. Every issue that has broad support of the people has been obstructed by special interests. The war is far too profitable for some sectors. They just purchase influence and they get their way. Gaming the insurance and medical industries is also very profitable for some people. These special interests don't want anything better.

Think back to when Edwards was still in the race. He said many times that none of the three were all that far apart on policy.

Clinton, Obama, and Edwards all purport to want the same things.

Edwards and Obama think the system is broken. Edwards wanted open confrontation as the tactical method to try and attain these same policy goals. I would have supported him wholeheartedly in that approach. But with the way things are now, with even the courts on their side, I'm not sure how you can put up much of a fight. No matter how one would go about trying to limit the influence of the special interests, the right-wing judges would just let them back in. I know they would. That is WHY Alito and Roberts were installed on the court, not because of anything to do with abortion.

Hillary has said repeatedly that she doesn't see anything wrong with this setup. She thinks the lobbyists are the voice that speaks for the people. She thinks everything is working smoothly with this system, and she thinks she knows better how to serve us all, by continuing to listen to the special interest folks that are paying for her campaign. Big Pharma and Big Insurance.

That gets us down to Obama. He claims that the only way to win this thing is with a movement so popular that it cannot be stopped or even slowed. I am starting to believe he might be right about that. We are fast descending into complete and total fascism and are teetering on the verge of complete and total economic collapse. (Trillions of dollars changed hands when the Soviet Union collapsed.)

I am beginning to think that only an awakening on a national, or even worldwide, scale has any chance of changing our course.