Reply #14: you see no corruption?

[Two Americas]

You would deny the power inherent in big money interests controlling the media, and so controlling public opinion? You are oblivious to the public licenses awarding monopoly power over the airwaves, the use of those airwaves being then sold back to political candidates?

You are unaware of the "revolving door" phenomenon, with corporate shills being rotated into positions of power in agencies that oversee and regulate those corporations and protect the public?

You have not heard about the army of corporate lobbyists controlling our elected representatives, who are now even writing the legislation, legislation that the representatives do not even read?

Or do you know of all these things, and yet still claim that anything resembling democracy could survive that?

Then how would you explain the fact that the public overwhelmingly supports New Deal left wing positions on all of the traditional issues (when they are surveyed strictly on policy areas without any association of the issues to one partisan side or the other) yet it is virtually impossible to elect leadership that will fight for those?