Concentration of wealth has to remain stable and on-going, so the top of the food chain is making sure that the candidates have the money needed to get there and remember who got them there. Doesn't matter who gets in, they're not there to make our lives better, they are there for the banks and corporations; will one of their goal be to bridge the humongous inequality gap we live in? NO. How can self-afflicted catastrophic failures such as the big banks starting in the 70's be given billions by the tax payers for bailout; when the average couple loosing their home asking for a few months grace were being declined!! We the people want more democracy, but the 1% want to keep their dominance. The 60's was the real last time that the poor (and I include the so called middle class in here), said no, we want more. Like King said, "Ask yourself, why are there so many poor people?, why is the distribution of wealth not done in a more fairer way"? The 60's brought a lot of fear at the top, they panicked, and we can read what their solution was; "The need to veer peoples head the other way, how? Convince them that they need.... they need fashion, better cars, better houses, assure they always want more than the neighbour, and it worked well. Television is still playing that game quite well. When any government knows that people are working for $14 / month, and working 70 hours a week, and are turning their heads, something is wrong. The banks for obvious reason wanted to kill unions, and they are almost there. They also redesigned our tax system, shifting taxing to the people, banks pressuring the politicians they'd funded!!. Reason given; corporation paying less tax will create jobs, really?? Money cares for money only. The next big crash is coming.. banks have people now calculating the gov. bailouts they might need! I never worked for a Union, but I can see the graphs, the lower the union registrars line goes the higher the inequalities line goes up. Read "Society in it's place" Walter Lippmann or watch Chomsky's latest documentary. "Someone gives orders, and someone takes them"