Just so. However, the capital is all flowing in one direction!  In my native Germany, by law, any publicly held company has a board of directors consisting of 1/3rd each investors, management and workers. You do not see companies "managed" to  show a good quarterly report while selling off the means of production and firing workers or exporting jobs. In Germany, education is free. At every level. You want to be a doctor? Get good grades, and the government will educate you. When you graduate, you become a state employee and provide medical care for a good salary. You need medical care? It is delivered at no cost to you, and it does not have to be rationed as in systems that try to socialize medicine on top of a private education system. Because I am a dual citizen, I had a good bit of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery done at no cost to me in Germany after I retired from the Military. The US Government did not care about how you looked after thirty years of service. America is my adopted country (for 45 years). But the EU is kicking our rear end in gross national product. And they are doing it while maintaining individual liberties that mean more than those in a state where all of the money is flowing to the top.

The Supreme Court has no power over the people that own this country. They may change social policies for us, the new underclass, perhaps make some of us happier, but that is all. There is nothing within the purview of the Supremes that will alter the the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

The Republicans "stand" for limited government and fiscal responsibility. But the people who own this country want more control over the lives of citizens so we get the Patriot Act. And a huge taxpayer funded gift to the robber barons that otherwise would have to pay the consequences of their business decisions.

The democrats took congress in 06 on the promise of ending the war in Iraq. They arrive in Washington and find out that the folks who are making money on the Iraq war will no longer fund their campaigns if they end the war. They don't end the war. In fact, we get a "surge". They speak against the surge but ultimately cooperate with it.

Do you think it would have made any difference at all if we elected skull and bones member John Kerry instead of skull and bones member George Bush?

The battle between the Ass and the Elephant is about nothing more than table scraps for the masses, bread and circuses, an opiate, to create the illusion that the hoi polloi actually have a say in anything.