"In America, we are too busy dropping the kids off at soccer, running around looking for sales and bargains, racing to keep our heads above water. We seem to forget to get outraged. Our control over our once Democracy — the one we had a revolution against a monarchy dictating decisions from afar — slips away from us. Not with a bang, not even with a whimper, but with a 1000s acts of gradual ceding of power to the new Monarch. We have given up hard won rights to a coordinated attack from all three branches of government; Our Congress has become the legislative branch of eBay — Congressmen are auctioned off to the highest bidder; they even have a Buy It Now button to get specific legislation passed. The executive branch has fallen under the sunk cost fallacy, afraid to prosecute banks because we spent so many billions bailing them out. It turns out that even our once venerable Supreme Court is just as corrupted, with lobbyists partying with Justices and backdooring ethics by hiring their wives."

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The US is Now a Corporate Monarchy (via azspot)

I think the reason I refuse to give up on the Occupy movement despite it’s shortcomings is because it proves to me that people haven’t forgotten how to be outraged, even if some of them don’t know why exactly they’re angry. It’s a move in the right direction.

(via misanthropicanthropoid)

Source: ritholtz.com
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