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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPolitics and Plutocrats: A Parade of Inequality by Gar Smith
http://www.alternet.org/environment/politics-and-plutocrats-parade-inequalityAmerica is currently engaged in the most expensive presidential contest in world history. In the United States, money doesnt just talk it dictates. How can we hope to make progress on the path to sustainability when the road is blocked by barricades of bullion backed by battalions of billionaires? How do we break through the political gridlock?
Dave Browers wife, Anne, once put a wise spin on this dilemma. What we need, she said, is a cure for greedlock.
Earths richest 1,000 individuals now control as much wealth as the poorest 2.5 billion people on the planet. This super elite uses its vast wealth to control the media, influence politicians, and bend laws to their favor. In the US, the wealthy dominate our government: 47 percent of US representatives are millionaires, as are 67 percent of US senators. The Center for Responsive Politics reports Congressional wealth has increased 11 percent between 2009 and 2011.
Not only is our economy out of balance with nature, our economy is also out of balance with the practical limits of physical and fiscal reality. As the Occupy movement has indelibly framed it, we are now a society divided not only by haves and have-nots, but we are a nation and a world divided into the 99 percent and the 1 percent.
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Politics and Plutocrats: A Parade of Inequality by Gar Smith (Original Post)
xchrom
Sep 2012
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malaise
(268,930 posts)1. Good read
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)2. I'll give this 1 kick. Nt
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)4. First you GET RID OF THE POLICE. Defund them into OBLIVION.
If you don't do that, you have zero chance of changing anything.
The cops are paid thugs and they will bludgeon, spy and unjustly imprison their way to victory for the Plutocracy.
Because of the police gangs - the world's SECOND largest organization of heavy-arms gun nuts (second only to the US Military) - the people are afraid of the Government... not the other way around.