broken_system unhinged from the zapatistas 'sixth declaration of the lacandon jungle' are we saying that politics serves no purpose? no, what we mean is that THAT politics serves no purpose. and it is useless because it does not take the people into account. it does not listen to them, it does not pay any attention to them, it just approaches them when there are elections. and they do not even want votes anymore, the polls are enough to say who wins. and then just promises about what this one is going to do and what the other one is going to do, then it's bye, i'll see you, but you don't see them again, except when they appear in the news when they've just stolen a lot of money and nothing is going to be done to them because the law - which those same politicians made - protects them. because there's another problem: the constitution is all warped and changed now. it's no longer the one that had the rights and liberties of working people. now there are the rights and liberties of the neoliberals so they can have their huge profits. and the judges exist to serve those neoliberals, because they always rule in favor of them, and those who are not rich get injustice, jails and cemeteries. - CRIC 171121 what's it to you? who go blather from