Think Specter's Switch to the Democrats Means Anything? You Need to Understand Our One-Party/Two-Head System

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Think about it: our system allows for legalized bribery. Every

politician is pro-corporate because that's where the overwhelming

majority of their campaign contributions come from. To keep those

contributions flowing (which allows them to keep getting re-elected)

politicians will do anything these corporate donors ask. Does it

really matter if one of them takes money from Coke instead of Pepsi?

Or barters favors with agribusinesses instead of the oil industry?

What happened to government for the people, by the people?



What's worse is that some companies and industries will give to both

parties to make sure that whomever wins, they'll have influence.



Back on April 13, 2009 Noam

Chomsky was on Democracy Now and he addressed this issue this

way:You can learn a lot from campaign contributions. In

fact, one of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's

investment theory of politics, as he calls it—very outstanding

political economist—which essentially—I mean, to say it in a sentence,

he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors

coalesce and invest to control the state. And he takes a look at the

formation of campaign contributors, and it gives you a surprisingly

good prediction of what policies are going to be. It goes back a

century, New Deal and so on. So, yeah, it can predict pretty well what

Obama is going to do. There's nothing surprising about this. It's the

norm in what's called political democracy.



I know I'm quoting the infamous Noam Chomsky, but he's quoting Thomas

Ferguson and who cares as long as what they're both saying is

accurate?



Sure, there may be some slight ripples, but ultimately, the problems

with our system will still be there no matter which side of the aisle

Specter iss sitting on. Our system is built on corruption. Is it any

less corrupt because companies you like get their way?

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