NY Times Tom Friedman's side controls all 3 branches of gov. but still he whines for dictatorship

• Multi-millionaire Tom Friedman controls all 3 branches of government and the mass media with staggering majorities. There is nothing to stop him and his interests, as has been shown. Yet still he whines.
  

Meet the Press, 5/23: "MR. FRIEDMAN: Well, David, it's been decimated. It's been decimated by everything from the gerrymandering of political districts to cable television to an a digital lynch mob against you from the left or right if I don't like where you're going...--really our Congress is a forum for legalized bribery. You know, that's really what, what it's come down to. So I don't--I, I--I'm worried about this, it's why I have fantasized--don't get me wrong--but that

• what if we could just be China for a day? I mean, just, just, just one day. You know, I mean, where

• we could actually, you know, authorize the right solutions, and I do think there is a sense of that, on, on

• everything from the economy to environment.

I don't want to be China for a second, OK, I want my democracy to work with the same authority, focus and stick-to-itiveness.

• But right now we have a system that can only produce suboptimal solutions.

MS. MITCHELL: And, in fact, Tom, you're absolutely right. One case in point, the Financial Regulation Bill, which we can get to..."...