The collapse of the American facade

The 2010 American midterm elections speaks for itself. The inmates have kicked out the jailguards and now they're running the asylum.

The good thing about this is the reality of American politics has already been laid bare. No more illusions. No more mirrors and lights to confuse us. We can now see American politics for what it really is: Corporate control.

The US Supreme Court ruling granting corporations and other juridical persons the right to donate to political campaigns practically gave legal trappings to what was already common practice. Now lobbyists working for huge multinational corporations need not go through backroom deals to secure the votes of politicians, they can now practically buy them via campaign donations running in the billions. The recently concluded elections spent more than 4 billion dollars in campaign dollars mostly coming from corporate donors. It's no wonder Tea Part militants running for office could easily beat their more experienced, albeit more traditional opponents, since they've benefited the most from the war chest provided by USA, Inc.

What is even more startling is the fact that with a ration of 7:1, the Republican party which is the party of big business, has outgunned their Democratic rivals in campaign donations.

Sure, one can argue that the Democrats are also recipients of corporate funding. But this doesn't bode well for independent candidates or third party candidates that now have to surmount this huge wall of dollars in order to get votes on top of the already impossibly hard access to ballots in ever state that they have to worked on.

But most of all, this is definitely bad news for the voters. This election alone had one of the lowest voter turnout with little more than 40% turnout of all eligible voters. The voters are literally abstaining from voting due to the electoral exercise being hijacked by corporate interest.

Well, there's always been low voter turnout for the US with usually 50% on average.

At least now, we have solid evidence to prove that the US is indeed the Corporate States of America.