The theme of most political and social
commentary is that things are more complicated than you think. For once,
I wish to write that things are simpler than you think. This concerns
two matters at the core of the present American political crisis.
The first is that control over the
government has passed all but completely into the hands of business
corporations. The country has become a plutocracy. This has occurred
because corporations are the principal supplier of funds essential to
the election of federal officials—the president and the members of the
United States Senate and House of Representatives, and through them, the
members of the Supreme Court and the rest of the federal judiciary, all
of whom are nominated and confirmed by the elected officials of the
executive and legislative branches of the government. Full Read
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