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A heck of a lot of power is vested in a single person in our US system. We claim we have “checks and balances”, but Congress—elected by big money—refuses to apply oversight or tighten the purse strings on executive war-making. Meanwhile, media—also bought by big money—propagandize the people into complacency, while the election gives us the “power to choose” among war hawks.

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something extremely humbling has to happen within the Washington elite to chage our current cource of unilateral "world order" as interpreted by US, only . You would think our disastrous overseas military adventures over the past half century would have knocked a little humility, a little sense, into washington's group think and sycophant think tanks and MSM. But NO! our current projectory is killing the planet, killing millions of innocents of all species and destroying our putatvie democracy

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