Posted by Long Hair In Albany (other posts) on February 15, 2014 at 12:29:23 Previous Next
In Reply to: If things get bad enough .... posted by Abaslom on February 14, 2014 at 23:12:25:
: we may have a second civil war. The peasants (the 99%) are fed up with a political system that caters only to the wealthy.
Remember slot of this was foisted on us by the supreme court in the Citizens United case. That is one of the reasons why elections are critical, you're electing the president who
will fill vacancies on the supreme court, supreme court justices who sit on the court for life.
The US of A also has an electoral system where only millionaires
can get elected. Some guy who makes $8,000 a year will get slaughtered in an election. We have a congress full of millionaires, they make millions of dollars a year but then
pitch a fit at raising the minimum wage,