Reply #26: To answer your questions, arendt, I don't see any candidate out there who [View All]

has a chance of winning addressing these issues. Kucinich at least mentions important issues.

But this has been typical of corporate candidates for years. I'll never forget when one of the perennial DLC advocates on DU posted a list of proposed Democratic platform issues. One of them, and I am not making this up, was warning labels on violent video games. There was nothing about single-payer health care, nothing about affordable housing, nothing about reducing dependence on foreign oil by reducing dependence on automobiles and airplanes, nothing about election fraud, nothing about outsourcing, nothing about the industries that have been destroyed by "free trade," nothing about anything of substance.

Note that when a candidate gives even the slightest hint of mentioning corporate control of our government, he becomes an "unperson." Kucinich has been an unperson for two election cycles, and Edwards became persona non grata when he began his mild criticism of the corporations.

(In discussing the results of the New Hampshire primary, NPR told about how all the Republican candidates had done, but during the half hour that I listened, it harped on the close race between Hillary and Obama and didn't even mention Edwards, much less Richardson and Kucinich.)

The message is clear: Don't talk about corporate domination of American life, or we will ignore you.

Sometimes I just want to bang my head on the wall in frustration.