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By Michael Hudson / CounterPunch Vested interests create “checks and balances” primarily to make political systems non-responsive to demands for social reform. Historically, therefore, the checks are politically unbalanced in practice. Instead of producing a happy medium, their effect often has been to check the power of the people to assert their interests at the […]
It’s not the concept is bad at all, it’s the fact checks and balances have been corrupted by corporations. Today they’re just really to ensure corporate America isn’t held accountable.
It’s not the concept is bad at all, it’s the fact checks and balances have been corrupted by corporations. Today they’re just really to ensure corporate America isn’t held accountable.