The US is an oligarchy

[stopbush]

15. Ask yourself: how different is it today from the way it's always been?

This is a country that was founded on the idea that the rich get to pick the government for the rest of us. This is a country that kept women and blacks from voting for hundreds of years, a country whose own Constitution considered blacks to be 3/5 of a person.

We've made progress - more people get to vote, but we maintain the Electoral College that can overturn the will of the people whenever it wishes. We still have a long way to go. The only way this country will ever move forward will be when progressives, liberals and young people bother to vote in non-presidential election years and to run for and win election to local offices, the way the Rs do. Do that and you defeat any power the Kochs have over us.