Sadly, it seems that most people (with viscera totally attuned to social wedge issues) are clueless regarding the leveraged buyout of out political system by global corporate powers - people whose sole allegiance is to wealth that subordinates societies to mere colonies.

We saw the takeover of the GOP accomplished 28 years ago. Instead of being the Party of small business and small government, they became the Party of BIG business and government as a pipeline into the pocketbooks of the taspayer - outsourcing and privatization run amok. In the Eisenhower era, both parties at least adhered to the notion that the goals were the same (a common wealth and land of equal opportunity in which all were at liberty to pursue happiness without special entitlement or burden). They differed in the principles underlying the MEANS by which such a goal could be achieved. Both parties had their narrow-minded factions, from the Birchers in the GOP to the Jim Crow faction in the Democratic Party to the "Nanny Statists" in both parties.

Between the Military Industrial Complex, the Oil companies, the Big Pharma cabal, and the investment banking sector, there's very little left for the average Fast Food Voter. The very fiction of "choice" (without which "free market competition" is a cruel joke) is virtually nonexistent for the human-being-as-consumer or human-being-as-worker.