Singing The Body Politic

The lab reports are back...and it's not good news! 
By Harleigh Axeford

The federal governmental system of the United States of America has been co-opted in its ability to function in the best interests of a democratic republic as described according to the generally basic principles put forward by the nation's founders and their immediate successors in the texts of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. It is increasingly apparent to an expanding percentage of America's populace that it has been the protracted post-WWII ascension of powerful American corporate enterprises and their ability to purchase the cooperative support of enough Congresspersons in the House of Representatives and the Senate who are strategically positioned to advance the agendas of their generous corporate benefactors. Legally permitted campaign finance contributions and some unsavory variations of the template provided by the late 1950's Rock n' Roll phenomenon known as "Payola" have quite frankly put the national legislature in the service of special interest groups for a price.