I watched "Capitalism: A Love Story" yesterday morning. Although I knew what I was going to see, and knew many of the items of interest in the move before going in, I came away shaken and as the day went on I became distressed. The corporate powers are so great in this country I wonder if We the people... is going to disappear forever.

What I want for all Americans - is a fair shake at living a comfortable and secure life. I want them to be honest with themselves and to have the truth told to them. I'm tired of seeing people voting against their own self-interests; tired of Libertarians who somehow believe that privatizing everything and implementing the so-called "Fair Tax" is going to lead to personal wealth; tired of middle class Conservatives who really believe the so-called "Death Tax" will somehow affect their lives. I'm weary of people who just hate government because they have some delusional belief that they are upper middle class -- when everything they own has been bought on credit. Not all Libertarian and Conservative ideas are wrong, just as not all Liberal ideas are always right. It's not black & white, left or right. It's about right and wrong. It's about morality. It's about being informed about WHY one believes in these policies and having common sense when they are debated. Debate is about information and communication.

A new term of the Supreme Court starts today. It will review Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission on Sept. 9. If Ted Olson gets his way, corporate personhood will become a reality. In a smashing dose of irony, this is the same Citizens United that campaigned to block distribution of Fahrenheit 9/11. They filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission saying it violated federal election law.

What I find most distressing is that teabaggers are expressing their right to protest in all the wrong places, because they are being mislead by these very corporate entities that are actually seeking to drown out free speech of Americans by buying it. Don't believe me? Check out what Tycoon David Koch has been up to: Good old fashioned bought and sold grassroots organizing. People are lapping it up like free beer and Chicken at a pre-game party. Wait until they find out the tickets to the game are fake. There is so much more to our great country than simple economic freedoms, and they are slowly being stolen from us.

Even CitiBank™ knows that when people lose everything they have nothing to lose.

When the right, and the left for that matter, fight for their rights, protest injustice and ask to be heard by government -- I just want them to know what they are fighting for. It seems to me that many in this Tea party on the right are just being used to further the plutocracy of our country. When their usefulness is over --they'll be tossed aside (like the Christian right was) in favor of a new outrage du jour. The rich will profit off of them and the people will get poorer. This is what Capitalism has become. It is no longer something that benefits the middle class-- it serves the rich, and it isn't offering a hand up at all. In order for this modern day form of capitalism to work -- you have to pay to play. Those bootstraps Conservatives like to talk about are not affordable to 95% of Americans. They don't even know it because they have been misled and told to vote against their own best interests. That isn't an accident, it is quite deliberate.

I hope and pray that we can stop this before AIG runs for Senate. Exxon could become the Speaker of the House. It could happen at the rate we are going. Capitalism has become a cancer to this country. I hope it can be a story of recovery and not death. At this point, I will take remission.

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Raine