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I was driving and listening to NPR the other day. Some story was on about the MPAA and the new SOPA bill. I hadn't yet heard that Dodd was the new MPAA chairman (chief lobbyist).

I was almost physically sick when that came across the air. I'm a long-time Democrat but I'll be damned if that didn't make me want to never vote for anyone ever again. Our two political parties are really two sides of the same coin and they are all working for corporations.

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“In America, you have a choice! The capitalist party, or the other capitalist party!” – Dmitri Orlov, Russian emigre

I often say the Middle Class is still around right now because the two main parties can't agree on how to wipe it out.

Pretty soon we're going to be emigrating to other countries and making jokes with punchlines that start, "in corporate America..."

Our two political parties are really two sides of the same coin and they are all working for corporations.

They're not, right? Google is a corporation and SOPA goes against Google's wishes. The political parties work for whomever they think will get them re-elected, and apparently the media companies are who they consider most valuable.

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