An opinion survey
commissioned by The Atlantic has found that an increasing number of Americans
are losing confidence in American values.
Dr. Randy Short of
the Baltimore Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference [SCLC]
says there is no sense that there is any covenant between those people in the
ruling classes and those that are ruled. The plutocratic elite control the
government through the available elected
officials but yet they, via lobbyists, set all the policies and rules and the
American people, the economy and politics are run by the same handful of
people.
In a phone interview
with Press TV's U.S. Desk on Thursday he said, "If you look at the Occupy
Movement, what they are saying is they are the 99 percent against the 1 percent.
It is the 1 percent or less that control everything and I believe that people
are disgusted with these people."
He continued that
the desires of those at the very top who have the money and the power goes
against the majority of the people. "The majority of the people want peace.
These 1 percent want war. The majority of the people want healthcare, these
people want no healthcare. The majority of the
people want something to be done about unemployment, and the 1 percent does not.
Whatever the masses of people want, the cynical parasitic predatory elite do not
want."
Dr. Short believes
that both Obama and Romney serve capital and serve the interest of Wall Street.
"They could care less about people. You talk just enough about people to get
them to put some sense of legitimacy on a sham democracy that we have."
He also believes that people really can't influence the government and that is how unequal the society has gotten.
"There used to be a
sense in
Dr. Short concluded
that the American people, "some of them, are beginning to realize that this
country is indeed more like a third world country than a first world country.
It's hard not to notice it ... this isn't the America that people came up with
following the Second World War. That
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