cactuspete wrote:surfsteve wrote:It's not the idiots that are in charge. Government is a sham. There is no government. Only narco terrorists and mafia fighting each other while trying to maintain their strangle hold and image over the rest of the population. Once you understand this everything in politics begins to make sense.
Gibberish! Unless you're going to say that major corporations fit within the categories of "narco terrorists and mafia", this is about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The real power lies with corporations, however, the government does exist and it is a separate entity from corporations. It's just that at this time the government is manipulated (like a puppet) by corporations. It is potentially possible for citizens to reclaim power, but citizens must compete with corporations and corporations are organized and they have the big bucks. On top of that, corporations have the means of influencing what information is available to citizens and through the control of information corporations manipulate citizens (kind of like a puppet, again). It's not a hopeless situation, but the prognosis is not good.
Well yeah. Corporations make the laws with their lobbyists and money. They control who gets elected and their policies. Don't they?