YES! We still elect our lawmakers & vote on policies.
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NO! Our nation has become an oligarchy controlled by the rich.
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
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Thom & Louise at a "private audience" with His Holiness Pope John Paul II at his summer palace, Castle Gandolfo, Italy
From Screwed:
"The powers that be are running roughshod over the powers that OUGHT to be. Hartmann tells us what went wrong — and what you and I can do to help set American right again."
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"Never one to shy away from the truth, Thom Hartmann’s collected works are inspiring, wise, and compelling. His work lights the way to a better America."
From Screwed:
"I think many of us recognize that for all but the wealthiest, life in America is getting increasingly hard. Screwed explores why, showing how this is no accidental process, but rather the product of conscious political choices, choices we can change with enough courage and commitment. Like all of Thom’s great work, it helps show us the way forward."
We need everyone to become citizen reporters to help spread real news.....like Thom discusses. Since our corporate monoply propagandist media will never show real factual news.....WE have to do it ourselves
We cannot use the term democracy for our current government. Our precious democracy was based on an informed and engage citizenry, and we chose our elected officials through primaries and elections. Now we have a rich people own all coporate oligarchy. I am afraid that things will have to get much worse (and they can) before we have critical mass tochange the system.
Everyone be aware the there will be be a new Facebook agreement starting 2015 which will legally allow government agencies to spy on you with your consent. I have been posting the address to the site that explains this but now every time I post it facebook blocks it as inappropriate. It looks like this Oligarchy is becoming a Fascist state!
This is sad. So many lifes lost just to have it stolden from the american people
With two parties, BOTH of which work for the interests of their donating constituencies and not their voting constituencies there is NO choice.
Without choice there is no freedom.
There is no problem with government, after all, it's OUR government. The problem lies in corporate (business) influence on government.
Answer: Capitalism has destroyed our Democracy.
1776-1981 R.I.P.
I'm embarrassed to be an American the UN is now getting involved stating we are unjust and boy are they right! I grew up listening to how great the USA is what a bunch of BS we are almost as bad as dictatorships only difference here millions don't even realize that coprporations own most of our government officials and have deregulated us so much that we suffer and our planet suffers as well.
To: Piano Guy
You are correct.
American "news" media is a joke. They no longer deliver news, they TELL people whay to think. Its ALL corporate propaganda coming from American "news" media. Hmmph!! There is more "news" on QVC than on "our" American propaganda stations! (ie. CNN, FOX, CNBC, ABC etc.)
Our instituions are infested with corrupt sociopaths. Thirty years of Oligarch's purchasing our government, laws and Democracy has resulted in one badass every man for themselves survival of the greediest. The wealthy have all they could possibly want. they are wealthy of the magnitude of Egyptian Phaeroes. There's enough to go around, as proven in post WW2 American prosperity until 1980. Are they just doing it beacause they like being mean? At long last, have they no sense of decency?
Of course we're no longer a democratic-republic. As if common sense and your own two eyes didn't tell you, two academic studies have confirmed Ben Franklin's fears; we were not able to keep the government bequeth to us by our Founding Fathers. America is "officially" an oligarcy. We have a police state mentality and we're on the fast track to becoming a neo-Fascist nation.
To vote is to choose the best from the worst of candidates; and with that, hope exists, that wise decisions may be made some day and that that day becomes more frequent. I had almost given up on voting, but a few candidates deserve more interest: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Alan Grayson, Ron Paul....
Change Which Comes From The Inside Out