Meet the New Boss,..

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I think this hits on one of the biggest problems with our political system.

Our government is "of the corporation" not "of the people".

As voters we have two parties, Rs and Ds. Over time we split about evenly among them. We'll elect Ds for a while, then Rs for while, yet nothing seems to really change. Jobs keep disappearing, wages stagnate, the elected seem as corrupt and disconnected from the people as ever. R or D, doesn't really matter, it's "meet the new boss, same as the old boss".

Why can't the voters force change in a democracy? Why don't our votes work? I think, as this article points out, is that the power, the real ruling power that can effect change, is determined by two different parties, corporatists, and for lack of a better term, populists. We're not allow to vote between these parties. Both of the voters parties, the Rs and Ds, are dominated by corporatists, so regardless of whether we vote R or D, we elect Corporatists. We think we voted for change but we really left the same party in power, just juggled it around a little between competing corporate interests. We're left with a government not "of the people" but "of the corpration".

Look at some of our current issues, the disappearing jobs, wage stagnation, the relaxed regulation, the bailouts, the push to smaller government which will mean more business/profits for the corporate world, all of these highlight the preference of our government for corproate interests over those of the people. Corporate interests dominate.

I don't have a clue about what to do about it. It looks to me like it's only going to get worse as corporations consolidate around the globe. The people of individual nations don't stand a chance. Corps, and their owners, will rule the world, if they don't already.

tnb