brothers and ALEC are designing, defining and determining policy for several states via ALEC.
While, in a non-bizzaro world, this would be considered an unacceptable and insidious threat to the surface values of a supposed democracy or the foundation of a republic, it continues, proving that big money is increasing its stranglehold and rising-up to shape and dominate the political landscape despite any popular opinions on important, (nay, vital) issues.
Our collective attention is captivated and focused on issues that have strong emotional impacts and that also serve to distract us from extremely essential and prevalent crises. Any critique of that brings knee-jerk reactions and serves to support ignorance of what is kept in the background.
We currently have gun control issues and marriage equality taking the spot-light. That's all well and good. The gun control issue has brought us face-to-face with one, of thousands, of powerful political and economic special interests. So, since we are being focused disproportionately and deliberately on what is designed to predominate our discourse, let's at least note just how much control just one faction, the NRA, has and why.
When it comes to reproductive rights and equality in marriage, we come up against another powerful faction, the Religious Right. Why are they so powerful and influential? Well, it is not just about tradition and religion, that's why. There are good reasons that they have been politically aligned with the money and overall support by the Fortune 500 by proxy. Their disruptive impact of projection of their personal "values" that they want to enforce on others is merely a reflection of the corporate mindset and so, we see the proverbial selling of the "soul" in a Faustian deal with the "Devil". Women's rights, from equal pay to reproductive, under that unholy regime and it also helps to keep us off other, extremely important topics.
Poverty has been shown, again and again, to be a major factor, (in fact, it is primary) in relation to most of our social problems, generally speaking. Big deal? Well, not when you have other issues shoved to the foreground and given disproportionately large amounts of air-time.
Jobs? Well, does that seem to you to be a critical discussion that gets as much attention and prolonged focus by the major media? Does the problem that the jobs lost will not be returning matter much from what we are seeing? Does the proliferation and improvement of automation force a new referendum on how we could distribute the vast wealth of this country in new ways? One could go on, but it is hoped that you know the rest.
And that's just the condensed version.
No. Profit is the real King of this country. In my opinion, the last few decades were an intentional grab by a small percentage of us to overthrow any vestiges of influence and self-governing we may have had by amassing, (taking) massive amounts of wealth and then turning it back on us to bring about an inescapable, massive subjugation with Orwellian sprinkles on it.
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