Yet for Aftonbladet columnist Åsa Linderborg, this doesn’t seem to be of much importance. As she put it prior to the Iowa caucuses, “it doesn’t matter so much who becomes president – skirt or negro – it’s still the market that rules.” For Americans seeking to transform their society, her voice is the counsel of despair: so long as there is capitalism, choosing between these two Democrats is a waste of time. Indeed, Linderborg’s analysis of American politics implies that campaigns are nothing more than a thinly-veiled puppet show, in which candidates are marionettes, where big corporations dictate campaign promises, and where special interest groups determine the foreign policy stances held by candidates. The only saving grace in Linderborg’s eyes is that class struggle drives how “yanks” actually vote.

She's right, and despite the poor attempts by Bucken-Knapp to excuse the money-driven system (if all legislators are "pro-business," what does that tell us in the first place?), it's more or less official in America that the election largely depends upon media trends, which in turn are controlled by corporate lobby interests. We all know the names of these groups, especially the ones who've forced Obama to sell out on his foreign policies. Without the influence from these groups, you have no way of even getting close to win the election. Remember how Ron Paul was shut out from FOX debates? It's the oligarchs, stupid!

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