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We do not have a representive democracy. Congress has become the Soviet Era Politburo, and the there is but one political party, the entrenched corporate interests, of which there are two factions. Our splendidly free press functions as official stenographers, never asking the important questions, but blathering on and on how "manly" W looked in his flight suit.
And the rot runs riot through the blood stream of US politics.
To be fair, the country has been ailing for quite a while, with secret plots, backroom dealing, corporate payoffs and thuggish behavior all in the name of "security" (the 19th and 20th centuries werent particularly virtuous ages) But a body politic can only endure so much abuse before things fall apart.
Stay tuned.....
