Politics in today's world are not what they seem, what you think or what the politicians would like you to believe. We have laws written in the thousands of pages of legalese which not one member of Congress can either read nor write. So whom is writing these rules and running our country you ask? It's the billions of dollars of lawyers, PR firms and lobbyists down on K Street. I often through around the term "lawfare" here which is actually not a word, but rather a simple term in attempt to educate.
This lawfare transcends the simple abuse of criminal law through prohibition schemes we speak of here brother. In particular it is this corruption of "
regulatory capture" within our government that we watched destroy our economy in 2007 and it's the reason we will never truly recover. It's how our government sells us progressive tax law and effectively delivers an extremely regressive one. It's how Republicans and Democrats fund their billion dollar campaigns and maintain power. IMHO education is societies only means of survival, as this is the only way equality in a democratic society can be achieved. How to remove the root evil that is successfully being sold to us as a solution
Regulatory capture is a form of
political corruption that occurs when a
regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special concerns of
interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating. Regulatory capture is a form of
government failure; it creates an opening for firms to behave in ways injurious to the public (e.g., producing
negative externalities). The agencies are called "captured agencies".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Are you beginning to understanding why I chose the term "lawfare"?
