It's not an accident...

[Playinghardball]

[daleanime]

1. K&R.....

[SoapBox]

2. Yes, Yes, Yes!

[BeanMusical]

3. Kick and R

[cantbeserious]

4. I Will No Longer Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go

eom

[SunSeeker]

5. Overturning Citizens United would be a good start.

But we had the rich buying our elections before Citizens United. What we need is public funding of elections. Get money completely out of elections.

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. The system is rigged all right!

[Enthusiast]

7. K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations!

How could anyone disagree with this post? How could anyone say we shouldn't do all we can to correct this rigged system?

Some insist the free market is self-correcting, if free enterprise is just allowed to operate unhindered without undue regulation and interference by the government. This used to be exclusively Republican ideology. Although some are reluctant to admit it, this ideology has been adopted by corporatist Democrats. I am reluctant to admit these Democrats are actually Democrats at all.

[Helen Borg]

8. We need to watch out for something like

the "Dean Scream" . With Bernie gaining traction, they'll throw all they got at him.

[Enthusiast]

9. We now know they see him as a threat. They wouldn't be sending these weasels against him if not.

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[lastlib]

10. EVERY candidate for EVERY office above dog-catcher must be asked.....

...ON THE RECORD! if they support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. Those who don't answer affirmatively are the enemy. Those who do, we can work with.

[Duval]

11. K&R!

[snagglepuss]

12. k and r

[Mnemosyne]

13. K&R! nt

[Admiral Loinpresser]

14. KnR! n/t

[Iwillnevergiveup]

15. Biggest kick ever

[raouldukelives]

16. K&R The suppression of democracy isn't a bug.

It is a feature.

Thanks to millions of corporate lobbyists, attorneys, investors and self serving politicians whose oaths to Constitutions are as hallow as their souls.

Maybe that is a tad harsh. We aren't where we are overnight, and it wasn't thanks to one generation, it has been the planets biggest crowdfund with each generation adding its own little pieces to the legislative puzzle and labyrinth our corporate and banking laws and oversight have become. Up to the crowning moment that the corporations have become "We the people".

It is all thanks to those who have eyes only for dollar signs. They have turned what could have been a healthy democracy that functions not just for Americans, but spreads democracy and fairness across the globe for all people into a personal ATM only for themselves and only for perhaps another generation.

All it took was the industrial revolution and a few generations of affluenza riddled racists and well meaning simpletons to make a beautiful world into a cesspool. Really pretty amazing when you think about it. You know they didn't back then, the world was endless.

Unlike Daniel Boone, they never lived long enough to see the fruits of their labors. To see just how the trails they blazed, led to the destruction of what brought them, and all of us, the most happiness.

I have a hard time blaming those who didn't know any better. Just as I do today.

Ignorance is indeed bliss.

[Thespian2]

17. Rigging the system got a big boost

when Lee Atwater developed "the southern strategy"...the Filthy Rich have been buying politicians on all levels for years...the GodOffalParty leaders realized they could not win elections if they had only their agenda to run on...

[L0oniX]

18. Atomic KICK and REC

[HFRN]

19. not an accident that social issues heated up same week as TPP, either

trade bills are why all income goes to the 1 percent

all that income taken from the working and middle classes had to go somewhere

[rhett o rick]

20. I agree. How easily some are distracted. All social justice gained will quickly be lost when the

corporations rule the world. But fighting corporate take-over is too hard for most. Denial is so comforting.

[HFRN]

21. you mean when corporations have absolute rule of the world

corporations already rule the world, now

[Doc_Technical]

22. Rollerball had it right.

[Babel_17]

24. And Devo!

"Corporate society takes care of everything. And all it asks of anyone, all it's ever asked of anyone ever, is not to interfere with management decisions."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073631/quotes

[Babel_17]

23. Yup, we have the means to bring about fairness ...

Yup, we have the means to bring about fairness, we just need to elect the people who will use them.