Since we're all talking democracy lately

While millions of ordinary Americans are struggling with unemployment and declining standards of living, the levers of real power have been all but completely commandeered by the financial and corporate elite. It doesn’t really matter what ordinary people want. The wealthy call the tune, and the politicians dance.   --Bob Herbert, Columnist, The New York Times

...and we let them.

We're cheering the Egyptians on this week but not paying attention to what our leaders, corporations and their money are doing to us and turning us into here at home, it seems.

Link to original post:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/opinion/12herbert.html?hp