[Thor]

I really don't get why the obvious problem in US politics isn't debated instead of what we always resort to, slamming the other party.

Its simple corruption of power by wealth, the powerful who control the 1% of the wealth in America have a massive influence and poison the democratic process to such a degree that nothing substantial can ever get done anymore in the US.

I'm not tower, this is well established fact and yet its tolerated by the electorate because so many of them don't even vote out of disillusionment, apathy or laziness. When elections come around its whomever brings out the most cash to brainwash people to vote for them based on fear or promises they rarely keep anyhow.

Campaign finance reform, lobbying reforms should be the big things to tackle but money always trumps the best interest of the average citizen, the US government becomes more and more like a corporation than a body built for the people by the people.

Its a messy problem, and every country in the free world has this problem in varying degrees, so I'm not suggesting this is some unique American problem.

A well educated, healthy populace that could make informed decisions and not be so easily swayed by massive AD campaigns by special interest like they were in the health care debate by the insurance and other interested parties trying to shut it down or have it watered down and beneficial to them like it ended up being.

The whole system is a mess, and the right thing would have been to tear it apart and start over, but we all know that would have been impossible and the best they could do is come up with a bill that gives up way too much to insurance companies and the pharmaceutical interests while still not dealing with a lot of the problems of better health care and better preventative health care.

I guess its too complex of a problem to deal with, if you have a chance to see Jamie Olivers food revolution on TV check that out, we are killing our kids and our health in letting crap food be fed to our children, that we don't hold accountable the food industry for all the crap they do to make food more profitable at the expense of our health.

Its such a massive issue that it hurts your head thinking about all that needs to change, but what we know for sure is that while all these massive profits are made at the suffering of people then it will not go quietly into the night, and requires a massive revolution in thinking by people to make changes to our lifestyles, to our education, and more importantly to empower people again to force change onto our lawmakers.