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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The reason politicians are beholden to wall street is because, we the voters, are morons and prefer to watch a few tv ads than reading a paper, we will vote for a congressman that spends money on us, while decrying national debt.
If voters read a paper now and then and ignored TV ads politicians would stop needing vast war chests to buy our adhd attention span, therefore special interests would be shut out.
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I think you're slightly off there.
Most Americans still
do pay attention. The problem is the source of their information.
It is something like 5 corporations that head a vast majority of everything Americans are exposed to.
The problem is that they watch one of the few big network stations (CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CBS) that totally dumb them down and draw them into hardcore partisanship. Then there's the flat out lying....