Your post begs the question, why is this stuff hardly ever mentioned in the mainstream media by reporters and politicians in any consequential way? Instead we get platitudes, unrealistic promises from politicians, news commentary on clothing attire, name calling by everybody, fear mongering and, in general, a bunch of bullshit.

If the pols and the lamestream, big corporate owned media keep talking about issues and solutions to them that are just for votes and not workable or that even fail to discuss what is really going wrong, how are we to make progress as a nation?

We need to address the big issues with concrete and big solutions, not patchwork, overly compromised solutions spouted to “con” some voters in the next election and appease the corporate interests that feed our “supposed” leaders. Issues like:

concentration of media and the failure of government to act to restore competitiveness
concentration of wealth among the few and tax policies that promote such concentration
failure of government to regulate industry properly
failure of government to obey the law and constitution
immoral, expensive war and occupation
improving education
campaign reform that removes the current, legal bribery system of today
electoral reform that ensures all elections are fair and accurate
unbalanced government spending

Until we REALLY have people, media and politicians focused on addressing these issues and institute actions to change the way things are working now, we will just slowly perish, like the frog, never even knowing that the temperature was rising.

And if we do ever get to addressing these “elephants in the room “, the other issues like better jobs, affordable health care, crime, pollution, immigration, etc will begin to get fixed too because we will have a functioning government with properly regulated corporate interests and a free press.

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