re: Top 5 Books that have changed your life.

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Both of the parties are enormously corrupted. Often by the same stakeholders implementing the same laws

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That was kind of the point of my post several weeks back that started this exchange. Up until the mid-80's, the Democratic party was the party of the working man. With the popularity of Reagan, Dem lawmakers started courting the corporate lobbyists. Notice when banking regulation laws started getting chipped away in the late 70's and early 80's. That wasn't coincidental, as the Democratic party slowly got on board with that push, culminating in Clinton repealing the Glass-Steagall Act, which heavily contributed to the financial crisis in 2008.

Both parties are absolutely corrupt, no question, and both line up at the trough of corporate money.