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To: i-node who wrote (49859)	7/31/2013 5:38:44 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

but there IS accountability that government lacks. laughable. Businesses have near zero accountability Message 29033599 I see you agree with Obamacare but ignore these two Banks' Lobbyists Help in Drafting Financial Bills - NYTimes.com 'Monsanto Protection Act': Chemical monopoly writes its own law ... Lobbying isn't necessary at all, there are many ways that laws can come about w/o lobbying. You "believe" it's necessary but why do you believe that? The U.S. government fears an informed American people, and an informed world public opinion, far more than it ever feared al Qaeda. What we’ve called “representative democracy,” since the rise of universal suffrage in the West a century or so ago, has been an elaborate exercise in securing the outcome desired by ruling elites — preserving an intersecting alliance of corporate and state oligarchies — while maintaining the fiction of popular rule. This ruling class has maintained its power mainly through what Edward Bernays called “manufacturing consent” — carefully restricting the range of alternatives on the table and shaping public consciousness to see that restricted range as exhaustive. The range is bounded, basically, by the preferences of the left and right wings of the corporate elite. It encompasses only measures consistent with, and which can largely be carried out by the people running, the present structure of power. Anything else is deemed “extremist” or “silly,” beyond the range of thought of Serious People.