When Did Democracy Die?

There's not a whole lot of happy with Chris Hedge's article.

He writes about the erosion of democracy and the drift of wealth and power to the elite corporate few.

If the media were truly of any value, this discussion would be the main headline right now. This would be 30 minutes of news every night.

ZNET - The Corporate State Wins Again

When did our democracy die? When did it irrevocably transform itself into a lifeless farce and absurd political theater? When did the press, labor, universities and the Democratic Party—which once made piecemeal and incremental reform possible—wither and atrophy? When did reform through electoral politics become a form of magical thinking? When did the dead hand of the corporate state become unassailable?

...the heads of state or elected officials in Congress have become largely irrelevant. Lobbyists write the bills. Lobbyists get them passed. Lobbyists make sure you get the money to be elected. And lobbyists employ you when you get out of office.

The massive redistribution of wealth, as Hacker and Pierson write, happened because lawmakers and public officials were, in essence, hired to permit it to happen.

The game is over. We lost.