PureX
Veteran Member
For many decades in the U.S. it has been a common practice for corporations, corporate conglomerates, and wealthy individuals to pool their considerable resources and use that wealth to bribe state and federal legislators, and anyone else in government of whom they desire special consideration and cooperation to gain an unfair market advantage that results in their ability to garner huge profits for themselves at the expense of the American people. And this practice has by now become so prevalent and institutionalized, and so effective, that no politician will dare even speak of it for fear of being stifled and driven out of public office by virtually every politician around them. Only the most rare and insulated politician will even elude to it. And none are willing to try and attempt any sort of reform that would seek to end the rampant legalized bribery of our government.
To make matters worse, as these corporate conglomerates and the wealthy elites that run them gain more and more and yet more wealth, they have also now been able to buy control of the media, and particularly of the news media. Allowing them to make sure that the whole subject of legalized bribery and of organized corporate economic pillaging stays out of the public's general realm of attention. And to instead keep us all occupied with silly and pointless social arguments, causes, and debates. And we have been falling for this ruse for decades. We're still falling for it.
The effect of all this bribery and corruption within our government has been that it has become totally and completely unable and unwilling to act on behalf of the well-being of the citizens its supposed to be serving, and instead only seeks new and better ways to funnel every possible dollar into the hands of the wealthy corporate elites that control them. That, in a nutshell, is ALL our government does, now. And everything else it pretends to do is just theater intended to serve as a distraction to the citizenry so they won't see themselves being systematically robbed with the full cooperation of their own elected officials.
And now the poison of all this corruption has finally infected even the most 'untouchable' corner of government in the land: the Supreme Court. The inevitable has finally happened, as the corrupt politicians have finally managed to stack the court with enough corrupt judges that the court can no longer function as it was assigned to do. The last bastion of hope for the U.S. citizen being protected from the greed and stupidity of capitalism has fallen. And there is no one left to help them now.
Shortly, the people of the U.S. will lose what little ability they have to effect political change via the voting booth. Voting will no longer matter to the outcome of an "election" because voting will just be a bit of empty theater meant to keep the citizenry thinking they are still "in charge". It's functionally that way, already. And we did this to ourselves. The moment we chose to vote for a politician because he or she promised to install biased judges, and to bring us jobs that don't pay a living wage, and to allow 'free trade' to run amok at the cost of everyone and everything else, we voted for our own destruction. We voted stupidly and selfishly and now we have a government that is so stupid and selfish that it's going to destroy everything and everyone we care about.
This isn't about whether or not abortion should be legal or illegal. It's about men deliberately lying to get themselves installed on the Supreme Court, and then forcing the court to throw women to the wolves and whims of state politics. To abandon its most sacred duty to protect minorities from the abuse of the majority, as well as to protect any subset of citizens from any other more powerful subset of citizens. It is the single most important responsibility of government. It's why we established a government. And especially so of the courts. But instead, the highest court in the land deliberately set aside the previous protections and then refused to replace them with whatever they determined to be better. Leaving the states to do whatever they please to a huge subset of U.S. citizens.
What if, next, this court decides to set aside the laws banning slavery, allowing the states to decide that practice for themselves, too? Or how about the laws banning debtor's prisons? ... This decent into a new 'dark age' continues to progress. And there are too many among us that are applauding it and encouraging it.
It's a sad, sad, thing to witness.
To make matters worse, as these corporate conglomerates and the wealthy elites that run them gain more and more and yet more wealth, they have also now been able to buy control of the media, and particularly of the news media. Allowing them to make sure that the whole subject of legalized bribery and of organized corporate economic pillaging stays out of the public's general realm of attention. And to instead keep us all occupied with silly and pointless social arguments, causes, and debates. And we have been falling for this ruse for decades. We're still falling for it.
The effect of all this bribery and corruption within our government has been that it has become totally and completely unable and unwilling to act on behalf of the well-being of the citizens its supposed to be serving, and instead only seeks new and better ways to funnel every possible dollar into the hands of the wealthy corporate elites that control them. That, in a nutshell, is ALL our government does, now. And everything else it pretends to do is just theater intended to serve as a distraction to the citizenry so they won't see themselves being systematically robbed with the full cooperation of their own elected officials.
And now the poison of all this corruption has finally infected even the most 'untouchable' corner of government in the land: the Supreme Court. The inevitable has finally happened, as the corrupt politicians have finally managed to stack the court with enough corrupt judges that the court can no longer function as it was assigned to do. The last bastion of hope for the U.S. citizen being protected from the greed and stupidity of capitalism has fallen. And there is no one left to help them now.
Shortly, the people of the U.S. will lose what little ability they have to effect political change via the voting booth. Voting will no longer matter to the outcome of an "election" because voting will just be a bit of empty theater meant to keep the citizenry thinking they are still "in charge". It's functionally that way, already. And we did this to ourselves. The moment we chose to vote for a politician because he or she promised to install biased judges, and to bring us jobs that don't pay a living wage, and to allow 'free trade' to run amok at the cost of everyone and everything else, we voted for our own destruction. We voted stupidly and selfishly and now we have a government that is so stupid and selfish that it's going to destroy everything and everyone we care about.
This isn't about whether or not abortion should be legal or illegal. It's about men deliberately lying to get themselves installed on the Supreme Court, and then forcing the court to throw women to the wolves and whims of state politics. To abandon its most sacred duty to protect minorities from the abuse of the majority, as well as to protect any subset of citizens from any other more powerful subset of citizens. It is the single most important responsibility of government. It's why we established a government. And especially so of the courts. But instead, the highest court in the land deliberately set aside the previous protections and then refused to replace them with whatever they determined to be better. Leaving the states to do whatever they please to a huge subset of U.S. citizens.
What if, next, this court decides to set aside the laws banning slavery, allowing the states to decide that practice for themselves, too? Or how about the laws banning debtor's prisons? ... This decent into a new 'dark age' continues to progress. And there are too many among us that are applauding it and encouraging it.
It's a sad, sad, thing to witness.
