The Reality Of US Politics Exposed By Bernie Sanders – Something Every American Needs To Realize
by Arjun Walia
Collective Evolution
Presidents and politicians have been speaking up regarding the amount of control that corporations and banks hold for a very long time. It’s not really a secret at this point, and despite the fact that we’ve been warned about this misplaced power for decades, it seems we still have a lot of waking up to do. Jane Goodall said it best when she said that the corruption taking place today, and the power that corporations hold over governments, is “really frightening,” because things have really become out of control. Personally, I don’t know how anybody can call what we live in a democracy.
“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many, and various, and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.” – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (source)
It’s great to see a presidential candidate like Bernie Sanders finally acknowledge this well-known fact. I’d also like to mention that we should not be so quick to judge the speaker of the message. What is resonating here is the truth behind the words, not who said it. To often our judgements blind us from seeing the point is being made, so I just wanted to make it clear that, regardless of your political stance, at the end of the day ‘truth’ always resonates.
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2016/02/the-reality-of-us-politics-exposed-by.html
