Guys, Mr. Smith goes to Washington is a pipe dream movie. I real life, the most ardent conservative ever will soon be bought by lobbyists for the industrial military complex, not to leave out big pharma and everyone else with the coin to buy a politician.
Money talks and bullshit walks gentlemen and that's the plain hard core fact. Politicians are in office to get rich by selling favors. There's no way in hell WE THE PEOPLE will ever get a fair shake from Washington DC as long are it's a get rich quick set up for the carpetbaggers now running the country.
Paul B.
Amen.
And that scenario will continue as long as We the People allow ourselves to be divided by simplistic rhetoric, and those with the means to possibly change it are placated with shiny baubles. A McMansion and a fancy new pickup have little value when surrounded by a smoking, polluted ruin where no crops grow and no game roams free. But hey, marketing works, and my stock portfolio is doing well, so [bleep] the grandkids, they're on their own.
The carpetbaggers will reign as long as those they rule basically aspire to be carpetbaggers themselves.
