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- luckyorphan0
I'm a little stunned today...
I've been waiting for one of the more thoughtful conservatives on this site to speak up about the fact that in the last year, we've seen income equality expand to being greater than it was during the Gilded Age combined with the fact that more quasi-third party fundamentalist candidates are being supported monetarily by undisclosed donors thanks to the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court.
When you have people running for office who favor unfettered campaign donations combined with the rich getting richer, you lose the concept of a democracy, and you arrive at a society in which its elected leaders can be bought by those with the most money.
In the meantime, business has had banner profits in the last two years, 2011 will be the biggest bonus year on Wall Street, and no one with the means to help is doing their part to help with the Great Recession.
The conservative response is apparently to keep taxes for the wealthy the lowest they've been in generations, eliminate oversight and vote the people who have stood for greater insight into who is putting money into the pockets of politicians out of office.
In the meantime, these politicians would make it legal to discriminate against kids based on pre-existing conditions, make it possible for insurers to kick people off of their paid plans if they are diagnosed with a disease that is too expensive and make it impossible for parents to keep their kids on their health plans until they are twenty-six.
From where I sit, the responsible, informed voter cannot vote Republican in this election.
- It's called a "banana republic". And we're there.TheBlueOne