DU POLL: Only money matters in the NEW US?

[flamingdem]

27. You probably read Krugman's article on austerity

I'm reading the comments -

Sheldon Bunin
Jackson Heights NY

“...[w]e have policy of the 1 percent, by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent,..." The USA is a plutocracy. The 1% or control the main stream media, major corporations and the GOP. Plutocrats, royalists, barons of banking and commerce, ran Briton in the 18th century and the American Revolution was about trade and manufacturing and cheap cotton produced by slaves for English mills. In Briton there was a wide class difference and the working class was locked into estate tenancy or mill and mining work and they saluted their betters.

Our constitution doesn't invest political power in wealth, heritage or , land. “We the People” had sovereignty and guaranteed rights giving a poor man equally protection under the law. Government was a counter balance to corporate power. That is no longer true, if it ever was, but the ideal remained. If the 1% does not want it or need it, government shall not provide it. To a billionaire who remains a billionaire in a depression while the wage earner starves, a depression is not so bad and the social distance between the classes widens. The 1% not only want to live like aristocrats they want to be aristocrats. Their selfishness transcends patriotism. They have organized to further their own selfishness. The nation and its people be damned. Organized selfishness is fascism. Where there is no space between government power and the power of the 1% and their corporate alter egos, we better understand that fascism is being pushed down our throats.