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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Aimee4]
I honestly don't know what the solution is. However, we elect politicians to figure it out. And so far, none of them have. This isn't a slam on Obama or Boehner or any politician in particular. Its ALL of them. They need to figure it out.[/quote]

It's because the politicians are so indebted to corporations/groups that give them money.  And, because we elect people based on sound bites and advertising campaigns.[/quote]

Well, no, we elect people based on the soundbites and ad campaigns the corporations and wealthy present to us.  Case in point:  the Teabaggers were a tiny group of elderly malcontents at first, and were immediately adopted by Fox News and Glen Beck.  Literally pushed to the front page of the newspapers and the lead on the cable networks every day.

Contrast that with the current populist movement:  it took nine days of protests and clashes with police in lower Manhattan before supposedly "liberal" NPR even deigned to cover them.

We get the elected officials that big money and corporations give us.  At the end of the day, propaganda is effective.  The only solution is to wrench one of the two major parties away from the the monied interests.  Since the chance of that happening in the GOP is effectively zero, you can do the math.[/quote]

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