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The next human species
- Dec 29, 2011
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When politicians make the decision as to who will best serve the people what they are really doing is making a decision as to who will best serve their interest.So you would like to return to the days before the 17th amendment when senatorial elections were "bought and sold", changing hands for favors and money behind closed doors.
Senate seats today are bought and sold by the the national parties to well connected looters such as Kaiser and Blue Cross. The national parties determine exactly who will be in the Senate - the state has zero impact on the process. Dianne Feinstein has 30 + years in the Senate because she serves Bank of America. BofA shopped for a Senator from the DNC in the 80's, as were sold the rights to Feinstein. The state of California has shit to say about it - Senators are appointed at the national level and represent ONLY the national interests of their respective parties.
In spite of the PACS, and political machines that influence elections, I trust the American voter a lot more than I trust self serving politicians.
PACs are the offset to the machines. You simply don't grasp this because you are a partisan hack who bleats whatever your shameful party tells you to.
Electing representatives to elect representatives is based on the idea that government is too important to allow the people a direct a voice in who governs them which is how the USSR functioned.
Under Communism, the unelected government oligarchy owns practically all the businesses. Under Capitalism, the unelected plutocratic oligarchy that owns practically all the businesses also owns the government. Same difference.
All these corporate flunkies here would be Communist Party members if we lived in a Communist country. Also parallel is that Communist countries call themselves "republics."
A corporation is a collectivist dicatatorship. The CEO is a commissar and the major stockholders are Politburo big shots.
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