"OWS - Where have they gone?"

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4. Campaign corruption is just one more symptom

When corporations have gotten more powerful than the government, when almost everything the government does is outsourced, when the Supreme Court is hellbent on removing all limits on individual political contributions, do you really think that passing a few more ineffectual laws would solve our vast array of other problems?

Our sickness has a name, but the closest approximation of that name is "property" -- or rather, the ideology of property, which says that everything is (or soon will be) owned by somebody, and that whoever owns the necessities of life can control how they are doled out to the rest of us.

Until you resolve that, even government is going to do the bidding of its "owners" and not of its citizens. And as for the rest of us, we just become one more kind of property.