Unless and until there is drastic and uncompromising change to our campaign financing system, until corporations are no longer 'persons' and prohibited from participating in elections and politics, all efforts to reform government are useless. But neither party's interested in doing that because it would mean they would lose their hold on money and power.
Any party that doesn't have that as their first order of business (particularly after the Citizens United decision and the overwhelming public support for reform) is d!rty, r0tten and corrupt to the bone.
I'm an old, lifelong Democrat saying that. I've never voted Republican, and I can't see voting for another Democrat again. But I think it's too late for that, for this "noble experiment" continuing the US as we've known it and as it was intended (a democratic republic) by the framers. What's at the root of the problem could only have been remedied had Obama come into office investigating and prosecuting the Bush administration and restoring the 'rule of law'.
Bush and Cheney exploited the inherent weaknesses in the Constitution: The precarious balance of power between the three branches of government.
As president, you've got to really want the US to work, to exist, to not exploit the loopholes in the Constitution that keep our three-branches of government precariously balancing the democracy. But Bush-Cheney drove tanks through the loopholes, breaking the law and with no apparent concern for exposing the loopholes or any consequences.
That fact alone casts suspicion on Obama's good intentions after his failure to investigate and prosecute and his continuing Bush's 'unitary executive' practices (and expanding them, with "indefinite preventive detention" of American citizens and the k!IIing of Americans with no due process or oversight).
There was a coup d'etat in this nation, a bloodless one, but a coup nonetheless. And both parties are in on it.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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