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		<title>Who to Blame?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK so I&#8217;ve been thinking about this all day. First of all, a caveat: I may completely contradict opinions that I have held as recently as this morning. My mind often changes, but I&#8217;m just trying to figure this all out&#8230; aloud. If we blame the politicians, it gets us nowhere. Just about all of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK so I&#8217;ve been thinking about this all day. First of all, a caveat: I may completely contradict opinions that I have held as recently as this morning. My mind often changes, but I&#8217;m just trying to figure this all out&#8230; aloud.</p>
<p>If we blame the politicians, it gets us nowhere. Just about all of them are corporate sell-outs. It seems to me that the corporations (lobbyists) are strong arming these politicians pretty hard to get them to obey them over their constituents. Who knows what&#8217;s really going on? Are the corps. threatening politicians with something other than campaign funding? It certainly seems to be within the realm of possibility.</p>
<p>But then the American people are just as to blame as the pols- at least many millions of them are.</p>
<p>So yeah it&#8217;s easy and perhaps fair to blame the politicians and the American people, but Is there a common denominator?</p>
<p>Yes, The corporations are to blame. They&#8217;re behind all of the influencing of the politicians and the brainwashing of the American public through advertising, PR, bad TV shows, and fake news.</p>
<p>Corporations are to blame. Their influence is too powerful. Expecting the pols to loose this influence is like expecting inner city youth to get straight A&#8217;s and get 1200 SAT scores without changing their schools, parents, or environment.</p>
<p>The corporations- and I mean the ones being evil, which is not all of them- need to be stopped. </p>
<p>That&#8217;s the problem. (I think). So how can these huge things be stopped legally and ethically? There&#8217;s something to ponder. </p>
<p>I could be way off here- so feel free to disagree or say whatever you want in the comments. LIke I wrote up there. I&#8217;m just trying to figure it all out.</p>
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