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Sounds like a plan Ice.

That is someone's lame idea to motivate us idiotic Americans to support another stupid attempt at campaign finance reform. You see this is what politics in the United States has become. After you identify an issue you control it by talking past any possible opposition than cling to your ideology regardless of reality. Sad really.

A plot! No - people aren't that smart. Merely another Stalinist campaign to strangle opposition or even more dangerous the free market! Seriously though a recent Supreme Court ruling struck down campaign finance laws designed to limit corporate influence in our election system. DESIGNED TO being the key words there. The path to hell is paved with good intentions. I find it remarkable that for all our advancements humanity and indeed the once free-est country in the world still get off on imposing the dumbest limitations over every little thing they fear.

Rant over.

No, I think I'm more aware of my surroundings then others. Unfortunately Ice the political machine already rules and that status quo is what I'm out to disrupt or upset at the very least. It goes back to what I said in my previous post - good intentions vs. reality. It might seem like a good idea to limit corporate influence because corporate equals bad in today's knee jerk mind set. However can't corporations do good? Don't they deserve to have a say? You see there is a whole list of issues from outsourcing to migrant labor that are the toxic bye products of our broken social contract right now. We can keep up the whole class warfare angle but France was worse off after Louis chased away the Huguenots. See what I'm getting at?

A careful balance must be maintained but our economic system is best described as dysfunctional. Some areas are over regulated, other places seem to be in a state of anarchy, and unions have forgotten about their membership. Sadly they are vehicles for advancement of the enlightened few while again the social contract is cast aside (i.e. outsourcing and migrant labor).

Not all Americans have forgotten the lessons of history.

I loved history so I delved deeper into the subject than most. Social Studies is the course name and that gives you an idea what they teach. Even the advance placement european history class I took as a senior in high school was uninteresting to say the least. The professor focused on madame bovary and Kafka skipped right over my favorite period in history 1870-1920.

Agreed. :'( Ever notice how many things in life are outright mislabeled. 

I went to see Sherlock Holmes and I must say it is quite surprising.
This is not the usual Sherlock Holmes, it is something else.