> What I can't understand are the politicians promising to fight tooth and nail to roll back the very minor reforms just enacted, and all of the people who enth

> What I can't understand are the politicians promising to fight tooth and nail to roll back the very minor reforms just enacted, and all of the people who enthusiastically just voted them into office last election, based on that platform. It's the Republican Party. They serve a certain set of masters. This set of masters is not the everyday Joe. This should be old news. Unfortunately it is not. And yes some folks vote for them that probably should not, but we have a sort of Bell Curve of intelligence and education out there -- though everyone's vote counts exactly the same -- combined with a variety of different levels of empathy for others, combined with a propaganda-rich media environment. This is what happens under those conditions. Ideally, we want to change these underlying conditions.