“It’s a club and you ain’t in it,” as George Carlin famously said. These days your vote doesn’t count for much that’s important to your well being because the club members control both Democratic and Republican Parties with the Big Doughnations they make to their campaign coffers. They do this mainly through the institutions they control – business corporations, non-profit foundations, trade associations, think propaganda tanks, . . . You get the idea.
Late in a career at the intersection of information technology and the power grid, Chuck Lindeberg took the wake-up call of 9/11personally. If his daughter hadn’t missed her usual bus that morning she would have been in One World Trade Center when AA 11 hit. That’s when he started seriously looking behind the curtains and under the rugs.