Jay Feely wrote:corruption is not everywhere in america either
No, it's not. I'm not corrupt and i assume neither are you. Most people in the working and middle classes likely are not corrupt either. So technically you are correct that corruption is not
everywhere in America.
But it most definitely
is everywhere on Wall Street. Maybe not
all big business is corrupt (imo that's a
big maybe), but enough of it is corrupt to affect us all... deeply. That's why someone like Donald Trump (who openly says we should keep wages low) can run for President and you and i never could. That's why someone like Sanders - a man with the most vision for a just system of government since FDR - can still be struggling in the presidential race while politicians with ties to Wall Street are getting more publicity and having an easier time of it.
Meanwhile someone like trump can convince otherwise good or even smart people to side with billionaires like him rather than side with their own best interests by using fear-mongering (the blacks and mexicans are taking away your jobs! Every muslim is a terrorist!) rather than really telling it like it is (business owners want to save money by paying the fewest possible workers to work the hardest they can for the least amount of money they can get away with paying them; the average muslim, black, or atheist no more wants violence than any normal God-fearing Christian does, illegal immigrants add far more to the entire national economy than they take away).
The people who crashed pour economy love Donald trump. They even like Hilliary Clinton. Ted Cruz I don't know about, but they definitely do not like Bernie Sanders because he would regulate their actions. He wouldn't make them poor or tax them out of existence (unlike what most say), but he would force them to not engage in outright fraud or predatory lending practices (unlike
any of the other candidates).
There are a few things i disagree with him about, but I much prefer to elect someone to the left of my position than someone far to the right of it.
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...