Because people know the supreme court handed our Democracy over to big corporations with Citizen's United.
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Because all our jobs went overseas
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Because the middle class is dying
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All of the above!
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None of the above! I posted a message as to why.
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a lot of jobs have gone overseas, but not all. but it really does seem like we're getting the 3rld world treatment as naomi klein predicted.
As a Combat disabled Veteran, and a Wounded in the line of duty, Law Enforcement officer, I do not recognize the country, I took an oath to serve and protect. it seems to have become a Facist nation, or even worse, an Cleptocracy !
As a 63 yr old Michigander and approaching retiree, I never imagined that I would be thinking of moving away from my country to spend my retirement years in a more stable and less chaotic country. Pick an issue - democracy becoming a plutocracy , religion intertwined with the law, income desparity, the dumbing down of education, infrastucture neglect, climate change denial, etc
We need to move to a Parliamentary system so that we always have a government that works for its platform. Divided government allows republicans to destroy america while blaming democrates. I don't like divided governement at all. The House and Senate should be combined in one Parliament always and the president should be the elected prime minister of that parliament. The minority should always form a shadow government. As far as the Supreme Court goes, Citizens United was treason by the Gross Injustices Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Kennedy, and Roberts. They deserve to be impeached, stripped of their salary for life pensions, disbarred, tried for treason, convicted, sentenced to death, and then promptly guillotined on the steps of the Supreme Court building. The Supreme Injustices deserve nothing less than some good old fashioned French style justice from We The People.
In the 20th Century, as the decades went on, more and more people who should have become leaders became followers, and more and more people who should have become followers grabbed the reins of power and tried to be or pretended to be leaders.
international corporations own the news channels . . . goodbye democracy
After the Enlightenment, men and women of Science began to make incredible discoveries and inventions, for instance in energy, transportation, communication and biology. They were our leaders. After the turn of the 20th Century, the only new discoveries and inventions have by and large been mere miniaturized or power improvements to the 19th Century geniuses' efforts - or, worse, Rube Goldberg versions (look at the state of virtually all software programs - an 'improved' version every six months or so, but the improvement for most users is negligible). Scientists began to lose their eyesight and became the stereotypical 4-eyed-geeks whom no one wanted to follow. Less qualified and unqualified people who had great distance eyesight but difficulty with 'book learnin'' picked up the leadership slack. Wha' hoppened?
The private international bankers that control the Federal Reserve essentially own the U.S. because of the national debt owed to them. International bankers control the money supply by issuing credit through the Fed. The major banker family that influence/controls the Executive Branch, regardless of party, is the Rockefeller family. They control through the Federal Reserve and the Rockefeller Foundation funded Council on Foreign Relations(CFR). The CFR has an agenda that is not beneficial to the interests of the U.S. The Rockefellers and other U.S. elites along with the elites of Europe and Asia want to control the World. They are getting closer every day.
If you are not familiar all this or see it as a nut job conspiricy theory, I urge you to do your own research. Look up Prof. Carroll Quigley's books "The Anglo-American Establishment" and "Tragedy and Hope". Prof. Quigley was Bill Clinton's mentor at Georgetown U. and was instrumental in getting Clinton his Rhodes Schlorship. Cecil Rhodes' original Round Table Group with Lord Milner and Rothchild led to the formation of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and Its U.S. branch, the Council on Foreign Relations. If interested, also look the Bilderberg Group and Trilateral Commission. The Republicans are 100% tools of the elite but so are the most powerful Democrats. We will not be able to win this war against the elites without a better understanding of the agenda.
And more! peak oil happened in 2008 and conventional oil is now in decline.Rising costs of raw materials and energy will kill the economy every time we attempt to grow.
Growth is NOT SUSTAINABLE and we are reaching the END OF GROWTH!
Eventually we will get more jobs but not the jobs we used to have. These "new" jobs will be in trades, agriculture, animal husbandry, animal training for agricultural work and transportation, old fashioned logging with horses or oxen, small farms will increase but poverty will rise as will hunger because we are so very overpopulated. This huge growth in population was made possible by cheap abundant coal, oil and natural gas but these are a TEMPORARY CARRYING CAPACITY and as they decline, so must our excessive population.
The politicians care not one wit for the average working person, to them, we are expendable and they are grabbing all the weath they can before the collapse and already have their "bug out" mansion built in what they hope is a safe place.
The best some of us can do is to be as sustainable as possible, home gardens, live in a low population area with nearby farmland, learn the skills our ancestors used before the industrial revolution, aquire as many useful hand tools as you can, if you have a pellet stove, trade it in for a good wood stove, pellet stoves are worthless when the power goes out and pellets take a lot of energy to manufacture, grow fruit trees, have storable food on hand, rice, wheat, dry foods, canned goods etc.If your in one of those huge cities, GET OUT!
In other wordsl, prepare for the worse and hope for the best!
Mostly agree but lets not decalre doom and gloom yet. First recall how we got to this place . Last almost 30 yrs .USA has lived under Reaganomics trickle down-1986 amnesty with open borders- for slave wages- deregulation of Robber batons / ruling class- Reagan Bush 1-2 con courts that greatly favor wealth- 12 yrs under Bush 1-2 Cheney- 20 + yrs under Greenspan then Rubin-Paulson-Bernacki aka the Goldman FED boys. 8 yrs under Reagan 1980 -1988 . Bush Paulson 2008 global crash - 700 billion TARP- 2 long wars based on lies-fear- Halliburton Blackwater Lockheed - massive war profits. Reagan Bush & GOP 2010 congress ALL gave billionaire tax cuts - Bush while waging 2 long unfunded wars.! Bush had a GOP congress 6 yrs Guess what They never said HELL NO NOT ONCE Saved that for Obama/ Dems People Think logically- Read check facts www.factcheck.org
In the past I tended to think that the governments of some countires (e.g. wealthy nations such as the USA, Japan, European nations) at the very least did the necessary work, planning and organizing to be able to help citizens during times of disaster. After witnessing the aftermath of Katrina, and now the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, I realized that these wealthy nations are just as inadequately prepared as any other. What are our elected officials doing once they get to their posts in the local, state and national houses? It seems that many (of course not all) of our government officials, once elected, get right to work making wonderful business deals for themselves and their friends and family. Instead of working for the public good they are working to make themselves money. This is the downfall of our Nation: Public servants who serve themselves.
And, your point is? Sorry, I am too stupid to figure out what you are trying to say from the mish-mash you put in here. You may be supporting a liberal point, but, I can't tell. Clarify?
You are in the bulls-eye! I would add that the ONLY prayer that we have to change anything is to overturn the citizens united case. Unless we get money out of politics, we are completely, absolutely, totally doomed as a premier society and only the top 1% will survive with any kind of decent standard of living. . . . . . Oh! THAT's what they're up to!
Sorry, but the answer is "None of the above". Confidence/Trust in government was bad long before "Citizens United".
The reason public confidence in government is at a 35-year low is because Republicans repeatedly tell them "Government can't do anything right", then they elect those same Republicans that end up only confirming/reinforcing that belief.
Someone mentioned the other day how "If government can't do anything right, why do we look to them in emergencies, send troops to resolve conflicts, and the National Guard to Japan to aid in the disaster?"
Although I agree with all of the answers to the question, I will have to agree most with what MugsysRapSheet had to say because I do believe that Americans lost confidence or trust in our government even before "Citizens United." Most people can see the evidence of something that is happening before their eyes long before the actual damage is done. . . others need Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh to show them how to drop the lit match they're holding as they stand tied to their stakes in the middle of a gasoline soaked, ready to ignite bonfire beneath their feet.