Is it possible to wrest control of the federal government from corporations?
They’ve done such a good job of divide and rule. When the alternative to the Democrats is so pernicious, people will vote for the lesser evil – the good cops on the corporate payroll. (if you can consider the abjectly corrupt like Max Baucus and Joe Lieberman to be good cops). Thanks, Glenn, for continuing to expose how compromised and duplicitous and utterly corrupt our federal government is. It’s the mirror image of the ex-soviet ex-government; when will our Berlin wall fall? When people stand together and collectively refuse to support the corruption and stop buying their shit. But collective action is so demonized and suppressed, unless it’s in support of the corporate agenda like the T-Bag dupes. And the corporate sanctioned and incited atomisation of community institutions (unions, cooperatives, look how snidely they refer to Obama’s “community organizer” credentials) in favor of the creed of alienated individualism has so infected people at a deep level that it is clearly a long
