That's how fucked up.

And it has spread to other parts of the body and is in the terminal phase.

And your metaphor has hope because it leads to new life being borne.
I am just too cynical sometimes.

and it may be beyond repair, because it can only get fixed by the very government that is bought and sold, and to even suggest fixing it means not enough money to compete for the person doing the suggesting, and that means no electoral win for them. So yeah, it's f*$ked.

... who'll get money out of politics.



Unless we can guarantee that elections hinge on votes not on dollars, we are screwed.

is that we rate our candidates by how much bribe money they can raise for their election. Everything else is a symptom of that corruption. Sure they want war, that's what the MIC spent all that money on campaign contributions for!

... but definitely not in this case!!

I think you have identified both the symptoms and the cause.

We didn't listen.

Geek: Fucked Up Beyond Any Repair