Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy
In a nutshell, politicians being bought by lobbyists, using rhetoric to fool the populous, and perpetuating cycles of privatizing everything, deregulating everything, decreasing financial 'burden' on wealthy, and increasing corporate power. This was mainly the cornerstone of the Republican Party for ~40 years, became popular with Reagan, but has seeped into the conservative end of the Democratic Party as well. In fact, Chief Justice Roberts is currently gung ho about hearing a case that would effectively turn the US political system into nothing but a giant pool of corporate money.
Can we start a topic bashing corporate scum? They're part of the reason I want to gtfo of this country (though it seems more and more countries are becoming westernized nowadays.

/derail