Corruption, Crony Capitalism and Trampling on the Bill of Rights Lead to Widespread Distrust
Trust in government has plummeted … due to institutional corruption. And see this.
More and more Americans realize that the government has bailed out the super-elite of the big banks, and enabled their fraud … while hosing the little guy again and again (and again).
People see that we have socialism for the rich, but cut-throat, sink-or-swim capitalism for everyone else. They see that we have a malignant synergism between D.C. politicians and giant companies. Look here, here, here.
At the same time, the government spies on virtually all Americans, and has threatened to assassinate or indefinitely detain American citizens on U.S. soil.
Folks are starting to wake up to the fact that Obama is a lot like Bush. Indeed, he’s continued many of the horrible Bush programs he promised to stop, covered up for Cheney and company, and allowed even worse inequality and trampling of the Constitution.
So people are starting to see that the mainstream Republican and Democratic parties are virtually identical regarding core issues including:
Allowing the trampling of our liberty and see this
Launching preemptive war and aggression
Re-distributing the nation’s wealth from the people to the ultra-elite
Bailing out the giant banks while shafting the little guy
Otherwise selling out to the big banks (and see this)
And that any apparent difference is just a scripted show.
No wonder a new poll by Pew shows that only 3 in 10 Americans trust our government:...
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http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/03/only-30-of-americans-trust-our-government...
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