For the last 30 years it has been those who control 90% of all wealth in America, so in answer to your question, the elite win.
The 2008 presidential election cycle may end up costing more than one-billion dollars! How glorious! All the balloons, champagne, newspaper, TV and television spots, jingles, swiftboating, smears and character assassination, presidential “debates”, confetti, etc. All the miles of rubber on the road and jet fuel exhaust in the air. How beautiful it all is. How invigorating for the recycled toilet paper crowd, that they can fund candidates with a carte blanche privilege to pollute, to fill our dumps with their campaign garbage and our brains with their drivel. And then comes the piece de resistance, that ridiculous, meaningless spectacle of self-aggrandizement and excess where marketing tool is spared in exhibitions of excess, the presidential conventions.
War and presidential politics within our greed capitalist society have one major tenet in common. They are what makes capitalism continue and flourish. Greed is virtue, the highest value, to which we consumers can aspire.
For the tens of millions of dollars in lobbying and campaign contributions they dole out annually, broadcasters get back billions in corporate welfare, in the form of legislation that protects their ability to sell ads over the public airwaves.
Like cancer, capitalism self-perpetuates and in the long run reaches an inevitable terminus. With every forward motion further ingraining itself as society's oppressor capitalist class distinctions become more and more apparent. Inevitably, the exploited have little left to believe in and Capitalism has less and less to exploit. People will eventually no longer be able to shop, to take on more debt, nor to vote in elections that do not matter. A time will come when cynicism replaces consumerism as the de facto belief system of the nation. People will tune out, drop out, and stop believing. They will stop participating in the day-to-day choreography that capitalism has proscribed for them. Worse, they will stop buying. Neo-feudalism will have reached the end of its reign.
To the morons who thumb me down, where exactly did I not tell the truth ,the whole truth,and nothing but the TRUTH?
2007-07-17 14:06:25
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answered by Anonymous
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Cheney...he would rig all of the Diebold machines to vote for him..just like Al Franken says will happen..
2007-07-17 14:09:48
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answered by UMD Terps 3
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I fail to see the point of the question since the election isnt today.
2007-07-17 14:06:21
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answered by sociald 7
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Me. Freedom for everyone. Free speech and open carry laws for everyone but felons. (And Liberals who are expected to move to France!)
2007-07-17 14:06:41
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answered by Zee HatMan 3
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