The normal political game seems to be "Tell the public whatever will make them feel good...or scare them into compliance...whichever works...but DO exactly what your rich backers have told you to do and be a good, obedient boy till your time in office expires. What you tell the public and what you do for your rich backers are two VERY different things, and if the public fully understood what was happening there'd by a revolution."

Now, the fact is, it's pretty much always been that way in politics in most times and places, but certainly not to the incredible extremes we've seen in the last few decades. The level of corruption of both government and mass media has increased to the point of sheer Orwellian lunacy, and the middle class is being wiped out by it.

Voting won't get us out of this, because the political parties are controlled by Big Money. Some other kind of action has to be taken. I hope that it will be peaceful action.