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Former Representative Dennis Kucinich said, "We're supposed to be the party of the people. We've become the party of the insurance companies. We've become the party of the oil companies. We've become the party of the arms merchants." Regarding insurance, he elaborated:

"“It hits very sharply at people who gave wage concessions to get health care benefits,” he said, citing the excise tax on health care benefits. “We’re going to ask Americans to take a wage cut? Why?”

“We’re redistributing the wealth of the nation upwards by giving the insurance companies 30 million new customers, $50 billion a year more in revenue.”"

He voted against Obamneycare, but then President Obama flew to his district to persuade him to change his vote, which he agreed to do. After the Democrats lost the 2010 midterms, Republicans redistricted Kucinich out of office.

uomo_senza_nome_0 says

Whatever happened to the party of the people?

They've become the party of the machines, specifically the formerly Diebold machines that control a quarter of all votes and maybe soon the Presidency, if Democrats manage to enact the NPVIC.

US politics is really depressing!

Rigged elections, Plutocracy with democratic forms, One of the front-runners wanting to carpet-bomb civilians.

If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism. "

Charles Ferguson, Predator Nation, 2012