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1. almost 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

   the people we vote for handle our interests

   That’s how it was supposed to work. In reality, though, the people we vote for handle the interests of the corporations that pay for their campaigns. No matter how well they serve their constituency, if these corporations have a problem with their work, they withhold funds and rascals who dance to the Piper are funded instead. These funds pay for such a flood of advertising that the minority that actually votes is influenced enough to vote for them.

   These corporations also literally — and I mean literally — write the laws that govern them, then have the congressman in their pocket put his name on them.

   “The preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”

   http://www.policymic.com/articles/87719/princeton-concludes-what-kind-of-government-america-really-has-and-it-s-not-a-democracy

2. almost 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

   Mr. Alcaraz may be American-born, but that won’t keep him from having to show ID in Arizona, nor will it keep certain people from including him in their prejudice against “those Mexicans”…

3. almost 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

   The real issue is that for some reason you have chosen to dedicate part of every day to being Lalo’s daily heckler, stating day after day that he is a bad cartoonist with no real sense of humor.

   Like so many others, I usually — not always — enjoy Lalo’s message and, yes, his humor. I just ignore the strips in the paper that I do not enjoy and would never care enough about any strip to bother heckling them.

   If Lalo was as bad as you make him out to be, why do you think so many papers carry his strip? Some vast conspiracy of leftists who try to brainwash the real Americans into believing that the huddled masses yearning to breathe free have human rights?

4. almost 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

   It is disingenuous to make a sharp distinction between explorers and conquerors. Columbus, and the ones after him who actually made it to the continent, did not come here to take pictures for National Geographic!

5. almost 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

   So you are actually allowing him to control you.

6. almost 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

   Why is indiethink attacking Alcaraz? Everyone already has an opinion about him – what good will this serve?

7. almost 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

   You do not seem to understand my suggestion. I am not trying to stop anyone from talking, just asserting my right not to pay attention to people whose continuous blabber gets annoying — hypothetically speaking, of course.

8. almost 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

   I am not pointing fingers at anyone in particular, but there ought to be a way to right-click a person’s name and opt not to see comments by that person anymore.Something for the designers of this site to think about…

9. almost 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

   What does “college is not right for everyone” have to do with the subject of the strip, unless you are suggesting that blacks and latinos are just not smart enough for college, or more suitable for sports or gardening?…

10. almost 10 years ago on La Cucaracha

    In spite of Eisenhower’s clear warning about the military-industrial complex, the oligarchy remains firmly ensconced in power, whether or not the president of one party or the other gets elected.