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Romney Campaign Boxes Itself In On Outsourcing, Offshoring Debate

Wednesday, June 27, 2012


The real problem is that Big Money/Big Business controls the political process, which includes high-priced propaganda campaigns that spin policy and candidates as things they're not.  Corporations have been able to control politicians, candidates, the primary process, so that populist candidates can't get a seat at the table.

Our problems (bought politicians, pro-corporate/anti-populist policies and legislation) didn't just spring up with the USSC decision in Citizens' United.  Our problems can  be traced back directly to Buckley vs. Valeo (1976), when the USSC declared that money is speech.  Heap onto that Democrats letting conservatives take over the airwaves to the exclusion of liberal perspectives by not reinstating the Fairness Doctrine after Reagan and Clinton's Telecommunications' Act of 1996 that enabled the consolidation of media (not to mention the destruction of our public education system by BOTH parties).

Changing all that, getting money out of elections, getting corporations out of government, ending corporate personhood, etc., isn't on either party's agenda.  
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