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Originally Posted by Robbie
And you just described the Federal Govt. of the United States.
Headed by a group of lifetime/career bureaucrats with more money and far more power than all those 85 guys combined. And they even control the media enough to keep us from discussing them and instead turning the conversation into one of class warfare.
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Robbie,
Two main problems with your argument.
1) The Federal Government is thousands and thousands of people. The Moon Landing conspiracy nuts lose sight of the fact that a cover up of a hoax would have needed ten thousand people and all their descendants to be in on it. Even if you just go with the elected officials in Congress you are still looking at 435 Representatives and 100 Senators. More than 6X as many people as the 85.
2) The 535 people in Congress, the person in the white house, the people on the Supreme Court, the NSA, and all the rest are now very heavily influenced by external money. Citizens United makes buying elections legal. The two party system makes buying elections affordable. The 85 people on that list can call up their Senator, their Congressman, or any of the other dozens in their pocket.... or call up the heads of agencies intended to regulate their own industries... any time they want.