i will cut to the punchline: "We both know what you are....

[islandmkl]

3. it's all for sale...and so are most of the players...

the proof always comes out in the end...many times before even that...

legislation does not come out of nowhere...

allegiances are more likely bought (or better defined: rented) for expediency, and usually with some resulting gain of some kind, power, money, favor, etc...

when the system is so rigged that no matter what the average person (middle class and below are homogenizing into a mid-lower caste) endeavors to achieve, somebody in the top echelon always comes out ahead...

who got paid? nobody?

heroes of years ago who have actually accomplished little to advance the causes they so fiercely fought for once they themselves actually become part of the power structure is the way the system works...

and I'm not talking about John Lewis...I'm talking about the whole damn apparatus...

find me those leaders who have fought to keep America from becoming what we have become...there aren't too many because most of those who could have made a difference have already succumbed to the soft comfort of Washington, DC and its money...