RE: They’re all bought and sold: American democracy belongs to the billionaires now
February 5, 2016 at 3:26 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2016 at 3:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't think that there is any credible solution to that problem emanating from the office of the presidency regardless of whoever sits in the chair. If we want to break big businesses monopoly we're going to have to do it from the bottom up, not by throwing a hail mary to a political messiah figure.
Whens the last time you broke big business anything, even for a few people, with a vote, let alone a vote for the office most beholden to big business -regardless- of a candidate's personal commitments. Assuming that Sanders really isn't personally beholden or sympathetic to a business interest (uh-huh.....).....he will inherit the commitments, sympathies, and debts of the office in addition to his own.
If you want to break big business stop lazily assuming that a vote is even capable and break it yourself. That's what we're all going to need to do. Big business exists because it makes the shit we want. Unless we start making the shit we want big biz isn't going to lose any influence. Take time you would have taken to cast your useless lot for Sanders and whittle a damned chair instead. That will go farther toward breaking Big Chair Biz than your vote will.
Whens the last time you broke big business anything, even for a few people, with a vote, let alone a vote for the office most beholden to big business -regardless- of a candidate's personal commitments. Assuming that Sanders really isn't personally beholden or sympathetic to a business interest (uh-huh.....).....he will inherit the commitments, sympathies, and debts of the office in addition to his own.
If you want to break big business stop lazily assuming that a vote is even capable and break it yourself. That's what we're all going to need to do. Big business exists because it makes the shit we want. Unless we start making the shit we want big biz isn't going to lose any influence. Take time you would have taken to cast your useless lot for Sanders and whittle a damned chair instead. That will go farther toward breaking Big Chair Biz than your vote will.
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