The Working People's Perception, Political Reality and Reform

It has been well known that it is the regular working class, the "joe sixpacks" that generally listen to talk radio and it is the corporate owned Republican based media that have bought off talk radio stations and flooded the working class with right wing Republican propaganda for years now. Anyone listening to talk radio full well knows there are almost no dissenting voices of the left or the Democrats and even though some talk show hosts call themselves democrats, a ruse by any other name is still a ruse.

Of course the Republicans and the right wing, having always been deeply afraid that all the people might vote, desperately needed to brainwash the common working people in order to "live up" to the fundamental American creed of government by the people so there before you is why we have right wing Republican dogma dominating over 96% of talk radio. In order to have government by the people the people must "think correctly".

Talk radio's message has always been that corporations and business are your friend and government is your enemy but the truth is not as black and white as they would have you believe and in fact it is not the truth at all. This country was set up so that the people would have control of their government through their vote but you have no voice in how business runs itself except indirectly to boycott their products and that may work with their product but not so well with their influence on your voted for representatives. And that leads us into the political reality in this country and that is that corporations and the wealthy have essentially become your government.

Talk radio tells you that corporations and business are your allies but it is these powerful entities that hire lobbyists to buy off your voted for congressman thereby negating the effect of your vote and your influence on how your government is run. If you want to complain about the government you need to complain about the corporations that are essentially running your government and that have tried to become your government through bribery of our congressman.

Government has become more unresponsive to working people because the wealthy have been allowed to buy off that responsiveness for themselves. You complain about taxes and there is no shortage of anti-tax feeling out there but it is the corporations that have influenced congressman to give corporations themselves across the board big tax loopholes so that the only ones truly paying their taxes are yes, you the common working people. They leave you with the tax burden. Corporate business buys off congressman to get them to vote against the interests of working people and consumers and the last six years have seen record legislation of this kind. If government seems like your enemy it is because it has been bought off by the ones talk radio would have you support, corporate business.

As long as corporate lobbyists can buy off and bribe YOUR representives you have little or no voice in your government. And the answer is not to become anti-business but to demand REFORM of your government and to establish real laws that limit and punish business money's bribery of YOUR representatives.
The right wing and the Republicans love to be perceived as tough on law and order so let's see some tough law and order where the interest of the integrity of our government is concerned.

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