Why does it seem like no one notices the biggest issues in american politics?

[StateOfMind]

the biggest issue is big business influence on legislature.
2nd is billionaire's control of the media and the bias they impose on the "news"

Politicians are bought every day by big business, and the fact that lobbyists exist is atrocious. When businessmen hold public office, they almost certainly will pass new laws that will benefit their company in some way, even if it is unfavorable to the public. This happens to politicians who get a lot of their monetary support from big business as well.

Furthermore, the public is too easily swayed by the media, so it is unfair that we allow a few media moguls to decide what is "news." They distract the public from what's really going on by reporting the **** out of trivial things. For example- gay marriage isn't THAT big a social issue- let the population vote and that's that. Another example is Casey Anthony. Ok a woman killed a child and tried to hide it. So what? Not to say that it wasn't ****ed up, but there are a lot of things that happen every day that are much worse than the death of ONE child. When people are paying attention to stuff that doesn't really matters, they don't think about the stuff that does.

 

[Stagger Lee]

I absolutely agree on both points. The wealthiest own both political parties and they own the media. A lot of people notice this but the media has most people brainwashed and what can really be done to change it all when no one seems to care? Funny thing is, if there's a crack down on illegal immigration or opposition to gay rights, people come out and demonstrate. But for example when trade deals were being signed to ship your job to another country, no one cares. So I guess maybe the average person is ultimately to blame.

 

[Iceberg]

It is true that big business (aka money) influences politicians.

And it is also true that those in power have influence over the media.

I just cant think of a time in human society when this wasn't true. Where there is money, there is the use of money to influence politics. Always has been. Hell, from the billionaire's perspective, there's almost no point in being rich if you're not going to use it to control the political and media environment around you.

Not trying to belittle your point, but it just seems like the same discussion could have been had by a couple lower-class Brits in a London pub in the 1600's. Times change, but humans are the same animals we always were.

 

[Kerpal]

It's never going to change and we can't do anything about it, so why bother getting all riled up? Just enjoy the collapse.

 

[joverby]

Both points are true and I agree a lot of people are aware, it's just the mast vajority or too busy being distracted by stupid sh1t. Also, before the last major election (Senators / Govenors) the supreme court over ruled a 100+ year old law which prohibited unlimited corporate money in elections. Now they have free reign to throw a commercial in your face every 30 seconds. (Mainly Repubs, have most big business support)

Don't get thrown off by that repub comment, I'm really an independent. Both parties are very corrupted when it comes to scratching big businesses back. That's why our only real legit Senator, Bernie Sanders, is independent.

 

[Drdeee]

False left-right paradigm -- people are given a choice by bought off media between two bought off candidates. Doesn't matter who wins, the agenda is still executed. People get pissed off with Republican (Bush) they vote for Democrat (Obama), and they so dumb that next time they'll vote for another republican, or democrat, or even an independent. Whoever the fak the bought off media presents you with.


Permit me to issue and control the money of the nation and I care not who makes its laws. — Mayer Amsched Rothchild


Doesn't matter even if our guy wins tomorrow, Ron Paul for example, FedEx (ehem, the FED) still controls the money. Need to make it open and transparent, and preferably based on gold standard.


What's wrong with America is that it has been hijacked by very rich and smart people. Whenever a politician speaks about it, he gets kiled, alas John F Kennedy being shot by his driver, ayy let's not talk conspiracy, let's use more accepted version, a bullet that turned the corner. You know he spoke about them prior to being killed.


By the time the flags rotted off of their antennas,
they were questioning who the real threat is.
Big Brotherly love is the 21rst Century's plague.
no matter how bloody the glove, question evidence displayed.


Don't forget what two plus two equals.
Don't let them upgrade your math no matter what they have as proof of evil.
Remember when they went after the Jewish people?
You don't recognize that same black mask as see through?


Attack of the eagles. If they don't fall dead
before they reach me, I'll be damned if I don't shoot one in its bald head.
**** what we're force fed. All I ever wanted
was a warm bed and a house that wasn't haunted.


I'd rather die for a cause than to die just because
we exhaust natural resources forced into wars,
restoring wasteful ways, keeping other countries poor.
"Monkey see, Monkey do" I wonder what those ****ing monkeys saw.


Keep rethinking the still-frames in your mind,
and guarantee they will change with time.
Your outline is pixelated with poor resolution while
downtime is simply wasted. You were born execution style.


Head first in a trial. I'll second the motion
'Til the jury's bored to death and puts your neck in a notion.
The situation's volatile. A naked problem child
is trying to find the right clown costume to make his father smile


So he bombs while he tries to tell jokes.
This ain't a false alarm, can't you smell the smoke?
You're in the line of fire where they buy and sell votes.
Our sense of liberty doesn't ring true, stupid, that's why the bell broke.


Trench coat Mafiosos propel rocks
at recruitment officers and rebel against cops
'Til they hurdle infinite circles in small cell blocks.
Turtle upon turtle 'til they're all shell shocked.


This so-called president got elected in a court room.
With the war efforts of pops he inherited a fortune.
We "talk, talk, talk..." so the veterans of war assume
the revolution stopped. This ain't a protest tune.


"Hey, Bobby...the Masters are back. They're up to no good just like the old days.
They played dead when you stood over their grave, Bobby. They played dead when you stood over their grave.
"Hey, Bobby...them bastards are back. It's our turn to stand over their grave.
I'm a do it right this time...I'm awake...I'm a wait until their ****in' skin decays."


You can't roam a lost land as the last existing dinosaur.
There's no escaping ass kickings in these times of war,
replacing apples with hospitals...where doctors are hostile,
Killing two pterodactyls with one fossil.


I got you. If they don't fall dead
Before they reach me, I'll be damned if I don't shoot one in it's bald head.
**** what we're force fed. All I ever wanted,
Was a warm bed...and house that wasn't haunted.


Thumb through novels to have your fingerprints match,
The description of criminals committing innocent acts
of compassion for tired civilians crawling with pistols,
While we fire million dollar warning missals.


Force the issues in the back of your head where eyes roll.
Brain wash yourself out of that mind control.
Or act a fool like you're told.
But we won't see no type of justice 'til that ***** removes the blindfold.


This ain't a "Love it or leave it," it's a "Change it or lose it."
I'll never sing the anthem of a nation who never faces the music,
Chasing an ever-elusive caveman
in space ships that makes trips to the futures that are name-brand.


Faking progress...but we ain't advanced
Enough to change the posture of our ape stance?
They've got the key to the city but they prefer the break-in entry.
Duck and weave, I'm shedding light in their shadow box to make it empty.


"Hey, Bobby...the Masters are back. They're up to no good just like the old days.
They played dead when you stood over their grave, Bobby. They played dead when you stood over their grave.
"Hey, Bobby...them bastards are back. It's our turn to stand over their grave.
I'm a do it right this time...I'm awake...I'm a wait until their ****in' skin decays."


Attack of the eagles. If they don't fall dead
Before they reach me, I'll be damned if I don't shoot one in its bald head.
**** what we're force fed. All I ever wanted
was a warm bed...

There's nothing scarier than the human stories I tell ghosts,
Chilling accounts with my tongue frozen to bed posts.
The catharses of carcasses whenever threats are close,
Shows a heartlessness that doesn't register on stethoscopes.


Sell your hopes for a homeland security chart,
'Til your sense of self is broke and no man's pure in the heart.
Preventive detention for the folks who never left home.
Tensions have grown into a 24/7 red zone.


Scare tactics...have got you under control,
The fear factors of a color code. The uppers know
They can't hold you down without having anchors attached.
"It's all the same." Nah, balls and chains on ankles don't match.


So drag your torso back to the off road.
We may have lost the fashion battle but we ain't lost the wardrobe.
Go window shopping for your next free meal,
Cuz when we start the revolution all you'll probably do is steal.


"Hey, Bobby...the Masters are back. They're up to no good just like the old days.
They played dead when you stood over their grave, Bobby. They played dead when you stood over their grave.
"Hey, Bobby...them bastards are back. It's our turn to stand over their grave.
I'm a do it right this time...I'm awake...I'm a wait until their ****ing skin decays."

 

[ArcBound]

False left-right paradigm -- people are given a choice by bought off media between two bought off candidates. Doesn't matter who wins, the agenda is still executed. People get pissed off with Republican (Bush) they vote for Democrat (Obama), and they so dumb that next time they'll vote for another republican, or democrat, or even an independent. Whoever the fak the bought off media presents you with.


Permit me to issue and control the money of the nation and I care not who makes its laws. — Mayer Amsched Rothchild


Doesn't matter even if our guy wins tomorrow, Ron Paul for example, FedEx (ehem, the FED) still controls the money. Need to make it open and transparent, and preferably based on gold standard.


What's wrong with America is that it has been hijacked by very rich and smart people. Whenever a politician speaks about it, he gets kiled, alas John F Kennedy being shot by his driver, ayy let's not talk conspiracy, let's use more accepted version, a bullet that turned the corner. You know he spoke about them prior to being killed.


By the time the flags rotted off of their antennas,
they were questioning who the real threat is.
Big Brotherly love is the 21rst Century's plague.
no matter how bloody the glove, question evidence displayed.


Don't forget what two plus two equals.
Don't let them upgrade your math no matter what they have as proof of evil.
Remember when they went after the Jewish people?
You don't recognize that same black mask as see through?


Attack of the eagles. If they don't fall dead
before they reach me, I'll be damned if I don't shoot one in its bald head.
**** what we're force fed. All I ever wanted
was a warm bed and a house that wasn't haunted.


I'd rather die for a cause than to die just because
we exhaust natural resources forced into wars,
restoring wasteful ways, keeping other countries poor.
"Monkey see, Monkey do" I wonder what those ****ing monkeys saw.


Keep rethinking the still-frames in your mind,
and guarantee they will change with time.
Your outline is pixelated with poor resolution while
downtime is simply wasted. You were born execution style.


Head first in a trial. I'll second the motion
'Til the jury's bored to death and puts your neck in a notion.
The situation's volatile. A naked problem child
is trying to find the right clown costume to make his father smile


So he bombs while he tries to tell jokes.
This ain't a false alarm, can't you smell the smoke?
You're in the line of fire where they buy and sell votes.
Our sense of liberty doesn't ring true, stupid, that's why the bell broke.


Trench coat Mafiosos propel rocks
at recruitment officers and rebel against cops
'Til they hurdle infinite circles in small cell blocks.
Turtle upon turtle 'til they're all shell shocked.


This so-called president got elected in a court room.
With the war efforts of pops he inherited a fortune.
We "talk, talk, talk..." so the veterans of war assume
the revolution stopped. This ain't a protest tune.


"Hey, Bobby...the Masters are back. They're up to no good just like the old days.
They played dead when you stood over their grave, Bobby. They played dead when you stood over their grave.
"Hey, Bobby...them bastards are back. It's our turn to stand over their grave.
I'm a do it right this time...I'm awake...I'm a wait until their ****in' skin decays."


You can't roam a lost land as the last existing dinosaur.
There's no escaping ass kickings in these times of war,
replacing apples with hospitals...where doctors are hostile,
Killing two pterodactyls with one fossil.


I got you. If they don't fall dead
Before they reach me, I'll be damned if I don't shoot one in it's bald head.
**** what we're force fed. All I ever wanted,
Was a warm bed...and house that wasn't haunted.


Thumb through novels to have your fingerprints match,
The description of criminals committing innocent acts
of compassion for tired civilians crawling with pistols,
While we fire million dollar warning missals.


Force the issues in the back of your head where eyes roll.
Brain wash yourself out of that mind control.
Or act a fool like you're told.
But we won't see no type of justice 'til that ***** removes the blindfold.


This ain't a "Love it or leave it," it's a "Change it or lose it."
I'll never sing the anthem of a nation who never faces the music,
Chasing an ever-elusive caveman
in space ships that makes trips to the futures that are name-brand.


Faking progress...but we ain't advanced
Enough to change the posture of our ape stance?
They've got the key to the city but they prefer the break-in entry.
Duck and weave, I'm shedding light in their shadow box to make it empty.


"Hey, Bobby...the Masters are back. They're up to no good just like the old days.
They played dead when you stood over their grave, Bobby. They played dead when you stood over their grave.
"Hey, Bobby...them bastards are back. It's our turn to stand over their grave.
I'm a do it right this time...I'm awake...I'm a wait until their ****in' skin decays."


Attack of the eagles. If they don't fall dead
Before they reach me, I'll be damned if I don't shoot one in its bald head.
**** what we're force fed. All I ever wanted
was a warm bed...

There's nothing scarier than the human stories I tell ghosts,
Chilling accounts with my tongue frozen to bed posts.
The catharses of carcasses whenever threats are close,
Shows a heartlessness that doesn't register on stethoscopes.


Sell your hopes for a homeland security chart,
'Til your sense of self is broke and no man's pure in the heart.
Preventive detention for the folks who never left home.
Tensions have grown into a 24/7 red zone.


Scare tactics...have got you under control,
The fear factors of a color code. The uppers know
They can't hold you down without having anchors attached.
"It's all the same." Nah, balls and chains on ankles don't match.


So drag your torso back to the off road.
We may have lost the fashion battle but we ain't lost the wardrobe.
Go window shopping for your next free meal,
Cuz when we start the revolution all you'll probably do is steal.


"Hey, Bobby...the Masters are back. They're up to no good just like the old days.
They played dead when you stood over their grave, Bobby. They played dead when you stood over their grave.
"Hey, Bobby...them bastards are back. It's our turn to stand over their grave.
I'm a do it right this time...I'm awake...I'm a wait until their ****ing skin decays."

tl;dr