Does anyone use the word CORRUPTION when writing letters to Congress and President?
I do.
You can make a lot of policy arguments, but I wonder if that one word doesn't get under their skin a lot more since they know that most of the things they are doing that piss off progressives they are not doing out of principle but because of campaign donations, jobs for relatives now and for themselves after they leave office, and the invaluable praise of the media owned by those making the bribes.
Does anyone really think Democrats think privatizing public education is a good idea? or that turning over the national public school curriculum to one company is?
Anybody who went to college knows that textbook companies change texts every year or two just to force students to buy the newest edition instead of an old, used one--the vendors running common core will do the same thing.
They will eventually acknowledge some of the criticisms of teachers and parents, and then, by gosh, the only remedy will be to buy the new curriculum, new tests, new software, and maybe even all new iPads capable running dancing monkey holograms that will be ESSENTIAL to the new material.
It is even more obvious in trade, foreign policy, and inaction on Wall Street crimes.
If the White House was negotiating in the interests of the American people, would the TPP be kept secret?
How did invading Iraq and Afghanistan help average Americans? How did breaking Libya and now attempting to break Syria and Russia?
When we pretend that it is just a matter of policy choice A or B, we give politicians an "honorable" way to say no to us.
If we call things by their right names, especially directly to the politicians, they might start to get nervous.
And that would be a good thing.
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