Yes, there are some bright people such as you allude to in Congress, Bobert. But what effect do they have on the national agenda? They are, as you say, blackballed from mainstream media. They are just a few voices crying out in a wilderness. That means that the general public is barely even conscious of them or what they stand for. That puts the power in the hands of those whom the corporate-owned media decide to pay attention to, doesn't it?

And therein lies the problem. I do believe that the Congress is mostly corrupt, and that it's mostly been bought. But the bigger problem may be that the general American public have been turned, by their own mass media, into a flock of ignorant and programmed sheep suffering from what amounts to attention-deficit disorder (ADD). How can you reach a public that has been lobotomized? How can you release a prisoner who isn't even aware that he IS a prisoner, and who participates willingly and unconsciously in enabling his own incarceration?