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Warpy

(111,291 posts)
1. Apparently, you're not mobsters if you're rich.
Sat Jun 3, 2017, 10:29 AM
Jun 2017

You didn't think the law was supposed to cover all of us, did you?

Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts)
5. I don't see how that would have helped.
Sat Jun 3, 2017, 10:37 AM
Jun 2017

Yet, if the democrats had organized an extensive network to alter America's opinions, that might have worked.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
12. Money equals mass messaging to win at LOCAL level, kochs did that
Sat Jun 3, 2017, 11:02 AM
Jun 2017

And democrats sit back and watch....then complain. Time is over for complaining. Action and money, and getting off our asses

Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts)
14. The Koch bro's and team have organized to teach their rhetoric in our schools, TV
Sat Jun 3, 2017, 11:18 AM
Jun 2017

etc. They have programs in multiple institutions to teach their radical ideas.

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)
4. IMO it's over the hill now, they have amassed too much control. The gov. today really
Sat Jun 3, 2017, 10:32 AM
Jun 2017

does not often represent the people, but rather what the people have been propagandized to believe.

Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts)
7. Yes, that is where we are now. Billionairs have all the power and say about our country.
Sat Jun 3, 2017, 10:39 AM
Jun 2017

The issue is their network is so gangster and all-pervasive they should be in jail.

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)
11. Yep! Basically the gangster element has found being in and working the gov. to be very
Sat Jun 3, 2017, 10:58 AM
Jun 2017

profitable, and really, most of the nation can be F'ed over in a legal way.

Loki Liesmith

(4,602 posts)
6. If they've broken laws
Sat Jun 3, 2017, 10:38 AM
Jun 2017

Figure out which ones and report them.

If they haven't broken any laws...well we'd better learn to outplay them.

Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts)
8. Well, we need the FBI to investigate them to see what laws they have broken.
Sat Jun 3, 2017, 10:41 AM
Jun 2017

We The People are the only way to outplay them in the mean time.

Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts)
10. Yes, on some of their activities.
Sat Jun 3, 2017, 10:47 AM
Jun 2017

But they are so invasive and pervasive with anti-democracy agenda. I think there must be some laws they are breaking.

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