Our Democracy Has Been Thrown Overboard by Bill Moyers

Republican voters don't see this -- which is a terrible pity, because we are all sinking together.  It doesn't much matter anymore whether you vote Republican or Democrat --both sides are bought and paid for.  The rich men who set out to own this country and the world have accomplished their task, corporation by corporation, investment by investment, war by war, lobbyist by lobbyist, vote fraud by vote fraud.  The deed is done. Power and greed have won. We are in the death throes of what we call "democracy" and are utterly unable to keep a government of the people, for the people, by the people. Now we will have to live in an oligarchy where the rich call the shots and we, the people must obey -- or else.   Bill Moyers' excellent article tells the full story:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/bill-moyers/41386/money-throws-democracy-overboard

Money Throws Democracy Overboard
by Bill Moyers

EXCERPT: 

When all is said and done, this race for the White House may cost more than two billion dollars. What’s getting trampled into dust are the voices of people who aren't rich, not to mention what's left of our democracy. As Democratic pollster Peter Hart told The New Yorker magazine’s Jane Mayer, “It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather than how much you can make it work. It makes no difference if you have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after your name. There’s no sense that this is about democracy, and after the election you have to work together, and knit the country together.”

These gargantuan super PAC contributions are not an end in themselves. They are the means to gain control of government – and the nation state -- for a reason. The French writer and economist Frederic Bastiat said it plainly: "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." That’s what the super PACs are bidding on. For the rest of us, the ship may already have sailed.