America is controlled by Big Money: Journalist

The United States is controlled by Big Money, wealthy people whose interests are served by the government and other public institutions at the expense of ordinary Americans, says a political analyst and author in Chicago.

Stephen Lendman made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Monday while commenting on a report which says Republican mega donors Charles and David Koch will spend $400 million for the GOP’s cause in 2018.

More than half a dozen Republican elected officials, including several senators and governors, attended the event arranged by the Koch brothers on Saturday in a California hotel. Hundreds of top conservative donors participated in the gathering. 

“The political process in Washington is too corrupt to be fixed. It’s debauched. It’s money controlled,” Lendman said.

“America is a one-party state, literally a one-party state with two right wings -- Republicans and Democrats. There is really a dime’s worth of difference between them. All the rhetoric is different, the policies are the same when it comes to the big issues -- imperial wars, corporate empowerment, police state laws, clamping down on people who want real change. It’s called fantasy democracy,” he stated.   

“There is no real democracy in America. There’s never been democracy in America. The founders created a country to be run by its rich, well-born, and able. Women didn’t have the right to vote in America until the 1920s. The country was founded in 1776. Women were considered home-makers and child-bearers with no right to vote. Black people were considered commodities, not people.  That’s been true America,” the analyst noted. 

“The idea that America is a shining city upon a hill – the phrase Ronald Reagan once used – is absolutely false. America is controlled by Big Money, contributing millions and billions of dollars to Republicans and Democrats so that they get the people in office they want, so they get the policies they want enacted, serving their interests against the interests of ordinary Americans,” he said.  

“Americans go to the polls and vote, they get nothing, because they have no say about how the country is governed. That’s the way it’s been, that’s the way it is, that’s the way it’s always been,” the journalist said. 

“It won’t change unless there’s a grassroots revolution to change things. And I don’t see that in sight. People seem to go along with the system. The media fail to report things the way they are. It’s a terrible system,” he noted.

“So the wars continue. The corporations keep exploiting the people. Police state laws keep getting enacted. Names and faces change in Washington, the policies stay the same. Each election always turns out the same way. Dirty business as usual always wins. That’s the way it is, that’s the way it has always been,” the commentator concluded.

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