‘US political system awash in money and corruption’: Analyst

The US government is an undemocratic “oligarchy” where members of Congress are awash in corruption and are “thoroughly disconnected” from the American people, a writer and political analyst in Boston says.

US lawmakers are a group of wealthy individuals who have “very little in common” with the people who elected them, said Daniel Patrick Welch, an antiwar activist and outspoken critic of US foreign policy.

“You don’t have a democracy at all, you have an oligarchy and that’s why there is so little distinction between the parties, especially in terms of foreign policy,” Welch told Press TV on Monday.

“So that idea that these officials are democratically elected or that they are chosen by the people is a complete farce, the system is thoroughly awash in money and corruption,” he added.

Welch cited recent studies that show the American people have no control over government policies.  “You can no longer say that this is a democratic system where people are fighting for the right of the people.”

The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the US Justice Department is expected to file corruption charges against Senator Robert Menendez as early as this week.

Federal prosecutors specializing in public corruption cases are preparing to file charges against the Democratic senator from New Jersey, according to people familiar with the inquiry.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been probing Menendez for more than two years to see whether he took things of value from a friend and donor in Florida.

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