Government control?

What is the difference between what this thread complains about and that? Like holycow; pointed out, to me that looks more like a way to incite anti-government feelings than a real and valid complaint because it's missing a vital piece of information, US people are no longer in control of their own government. You'd have to read into it to make it have sense because just those few sentences alone don't actually point to a problem. Anyway, my point was that people there seem to have forgotten what democracy is and how it should work. You can't trust the government when it isn't run by the people, like a real democracy should. And no, complaining online and sharing this kind of thing through social media only isn't enough to make a change. You need some kind of action like voting, engaging with politicians, public demonstrations that are noticeable but I'm pretty sure people would rather sit and complain all day about the government instead of being the government. So yeah, complain all you want but if you aren't vocal enough in the right ways things won't change for the best.

I have no idea what you're getting at. If the government isn't run by the people and there is no trust then why do you think that post presentation on a Maple Story forum site has remotely any pertinence to an actual change in politics? If you're really insinuating about bringing change to the behemoth, then wasting your breath here is anti-intuitive to bringing actual results. Opinions and voices don't go far without funding, man-power, and posing a valid threat to the positions presently in power. The Tea Party couldn't have gained traction if they weren't funded by the Koch Brothers and even then as an idealistic movement it fails to enact similar change politically because all though the party members were a threat, they were nowhere close to jockeying Congress from the status quo. In order to bring about change in Washington, you need to fundamentally change the tendencies of men to do work for others while not having an eye out for self-profit. What's ironic is that this sums up what work is for all of us on a daily basis, politicians are no different as they go about their careers climbing ladders and taking in some major campaign funding incentives before they get fired by their constituents. They are just playing with bigger bribes, bigger scandals, and require more apathy on a regular basis than we would take on in our life-time. Things will only get worse with 'the fear' of reduced opportunities, saturated competition, and specialists at every corner. People will come to feel the need to claw for scraps and this mentality will fuel a never ending cycle of self-interest at the expense of others that will continue to pull the ladder higher and higher until everyone suffocates. In order to bring integrity back to the government we need to bring back values of human decency and justice to be held in higher regard than job security, influential affluence, and self-preservation. Good luck making that happen.

Also one more thing, the government doesn't have sole ownership over all those institutions. Considering each resource there is some privatized sectors and ones that involve quasi-government influence. The point is that the statement in the OP is remarkably ignorant of the details and just acts as a bait to make people angry because it is an entirely juvenile statement to make. I think that the fact that people are responding to it at face value is a waste of time since the reality of the situation is that the statements are completely false on a factual level. That leaves the OP on a concept level which is honestly a simply and singular message that is Fox-worthy. I can tell you something about a Fox-topic, waste of time much like the waste of time I spent responding to this post.