"America is not supposed to be like this... We can do better."
At the turn of the twentieth century, this thought rallied the Progressive movement to beat back the overwhelming corporate power that had corrupted the political system. That same corruption faces us today, perhaps even more entrenched, and certainly better organized. Then as now, our political system was paralyzed by corporate money. Then as now, our media were dominated by corporate interests. Corporate owners have become more subtle in their censorship of our media, and in substituting propaganda for real news to serve their own ends. Politicians have become more circumspect about being bought. But the underlying rules are same: money buys power, and power attracts money.
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