Listen to Professor Jeffrey Sachs's damning indictment of the US political system:
"US politics is basically a plutocratic state where public policy has been taken over by several powerful lobbies, each one devoted to its specific area (...) Democrats and Republicans, by the way, that's a little bit a children's game (...) The oligarchy, the plutocracy, is both parties (...) There's been no public debate for a moment on the $120 billion that has been spent so far (...) There's no attempt at deliberative democracy at all. No debate at all."