"Joe"  wrote |

| >   Those are all common sense and common decency. The only
| > reason they're not illegal is because the crime is frictionless and
| > invisible, and the operation of it is not widely understood. Even
| > the US Congress seems to have few people capable of
| > understanding the stakes. If you think the problem is lack of
| > public education then you're living in your own private Idaho.
| >
|
| No. There are now people and businesses rich enough to buy entire
| governments, or at least, political parties. That's the problem.
|

  Ah. Why didn't you say so? So it's hopeless. I guess
I'll go back to bed.

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