Monday, April 21, 2008
Imitation "Change" Flavored Kool-Aid
It’s amazing how ideas that were rejected just a year ago are flying through cyberspace as well as real-space, at the speed of light. I’m talking about two things here. The first I’ll mention is the idea that both the Democrats and the Republicans’ are pawns of the corporate power structure in this country. It will probably seem hard to believe now, but just a short time ago I was called all sorts of things for bringing that up. Since 2004, I have been writing about campaign financing and the need for reform. This one issue is the basis of corporate control along with the “good folks” on K-Street that staff 70 lobbyist’s for every legislator we have on Capitol Hill. Gee, what a great system we have up there (for the legislators and the lobbyists). I can’t wait to run for office myself so I can get in on those goodies they’re passing out (only kidding), this can’t last forever…or can it?
It doesn’t seem possible that Americans will let this travesty go on, but then again, we all know how short of an attention span the American voter has. Because of people like Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel and Ron Paul, we are being told how the money game in Washington is being played, but the question to be asked, is whether this knowledge will influence voters. The idea that people are armed with knowledge doesn’t actually mean that they’ll use it. We know that Bush has committed International War Crimes and has lied to the American public repeatedly, but armed with that knowledge, what do we as a nation do? The answer is absolutely nothing. The same goes for the corporate politicians that serve the Military Industrial Complex, we may know what the game is all about, but will we act on it?
The reality of the situation is that the Democrats have gotten themselves wrapped around the axle, so to speak, with their two main candidates. This isn’t something that just happened. In my suspicious mind, this was planned all along to get people to look the wrong way. It’s a classic example of misdirection. It’s political sleight-of-hand. Get people involved in meaningless jargon, and they won’t look at the main issues like who’s funding these people and who is running their campaigns. If people really want to know the truth about these two corporate players that the Democrats are holding up as “change”, go to www.opensecrets.org and see who is giving, and who is getting, around the corporate trough. See who the investment bankers and hedge fund managers and defense contractors are giving to and then ask ,why? It’s pretty apparent. Hello? Are the lights on yet?
So why use this scare tactic about voting third party? That is readily apparent also. A vote for Mike Gravel is a vote that can’t be used against John McCain. Isn’t that the mantra? Well how’s this, a vote for Mike Gravel or another strong third party candidate is a vote that the corporacracy won’t get. The point of this exercise of your right to think for yourself will mean that the two parties that make up the political duopoly in this country will start to think twice about what they are doing. The worse thing a politician can face is rejection. If 30% of the people in this country turn their backs on the status-quo and corporate-complicit and corporate-compliant political parties, we just might make some headway in solving the real issues that are driving this nation to moral and fiscal bankruptcy.
So, on this note, just let me say that I believe wholeheartedly with the Democrats when they promote the word “change”. The only thing that separates the DNC’s views from my views is that the change I’m seeking is change away from the Democratic Party. The sad part of this entire fiasco that is called the 2008 Presidential Election is that the Democrats are desperately trying to remain at the center of American politics. The reality is that they have no idea where that center is. While Clinton and Obama and McCain debate how we should fight the wars in the Middle East, the rest of the country are looking for a way to end these misguided wars. While the Democrats argue about trade agreements, many Americans are working two part-time jobs with no benefits just to pay their mortgages and put food on the table and keep their lights on, thanks to prior “free-trade agreements”. While they talk trash about religion, people are talking about the Constitution and how we are going to get our rights back and get rid of religious interference in the government. While they bowl and knock back shots at the bar, Americans that are out of work are thinking about when they too could do the same without giving up their food and prescription dollars.
The time for change is really here. It’s time to change the direction of this country by changing the directors. The Democrats helped get us into this mess by supporting the wars, supporting NAFTA, supporting every dime the Chimp has asked for and supporting AIPAC. The Democrats seem to believe that supporting Israel and their quest to kill every Palestinian living in the Gaza Strip is somehow “patriotic”. Remaining quiet when Israel bans President Carter from going to Gaza speaks volumes about the Democrats. Israel’s insistence on refusing to negotiate with Hamas, and the Democrats refusal to back Carter when he takes on the job of doing it himself, also exposes the Democrats lack of conviction to real peace in the Middle-East. Embracing change doesn’t mean that half of the people that run the Clinton and Obama campaigns should be members of The Council for Foreign Relations. Check that little tidbit out for yourselves.
So with this article I guess I’ll be thrown off more so-called “progressive” websites. I’m getting used to it. I’ve been thrown off some of the biggest sites on the web. God-forbid I call the Democrats on their pro-corporate, pro-military, pro AIPAC stances. Just call me a rabble-rouser and a misfit because I won’t drink that Democrat flavored Kool-Aid of “change”.
That’s the way I see it. (Although I wish it weren’t so)
It doesn’t seem possible that Americans will let this travesty go on, but then again, we all know how short of an attention span the American voter has. Because of people like Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel and Ron Paul, we are being told how the money game in Washington is being played, but the question to be asked, is whether this knowledge will influence voters. The idea that people are armed with knowledge doesn’t actually mean that they’ll use it. We know that Bush has committed International War Crimes and has lied to the American public repeatedly, but armed with that knowledge, what do we as a nation do? The answer is absolutely nothing. The same goes for the corporate politicians that serve the Military Industrial Complex, we may know what the game is all about, but will we act on it?
The reality of the situation is that the Democrats have gotten themselves wrapped around the axle, so to speak, with their two main candidates. This isn’t something that just happened. In my suspicious mind, this was planned all along to get people to look the wrong way. It’s a classic example of misdirection. It’s political sleight-of-hand. Get people involved in meaningless jargon, and they won’t look at the main issues like who’s funding these people and who is running their campaigns. If people really want to know the truth about these two corporate players that the Democrats are holding up as “change”, go to www.opensecrets.org and see who is giving, and who is getting, around the corporate trough. See who the investment bankers and hedge fund managers and defense contractors are giving to and then ask ,why? It’s pretty apparent. Hello? Are the lights on yet?
So why use this scare tactic about voting third party? That is readily apparent also. A vote for Mike Gravel is a vote that can’t be used against John McCain. Isn’t that the mantra? Well how’s this, a vote for Mike Gravel or another strong third party candidate is a vote that the corporacracy won’t get. The point of this exercise of your right to think for yourself will mean that the two parties that make up the political duopoly in this country will start to think twice about what they are doing. The worse thing a politician can face is rejection. If 30% of the people in this country turn their backs on the status-quo and corporate-complicit and corporate-compliant political parties, we just might make some headway in solving the real issues that are driving this nation to moral and fiscal bankruptcy.
So, on this note, just let me say that I believe wholeheartedly with the Democrats when they promote the word “change”. The only thing that separates the DNC’s views from my views is that the change I’m seeking is change away from the Democratic Party. The sad part of this entire fiasco that is called the 2008 Presidential Election is that the Democrats are desperately trying to remain at the center of American politics. The reality is that they have no idea where that center is. While Clinton and Obama and McCain debate how we should fight the wars in the Middle East, the rest of the country are looking for a way to end these misguided wars. While the Democrats argue about trade agreements, many Americans are working two part-time jobs with no benefits just to pay their mortgages and put food on the table and keep their lights on, thanks to prior “free-trade agreements”. While they talk trash about religion, people are talking about the Constitution and how we are going to get our rights back and get rid of religious interference in the government. While they bowl and knock back shots at the bar, Americans that are out of work are thinking about when they too could do the same without giving up their food and prescription dollars.
The time for change is really here. It’s time to change the direction of this country by changing the directors. The Democrats helped get us into this mess by supporting the wars, supporting NAFTA, supporting every dime the Chimp has asked for and supporting AIPAC. The Democrats seem to believe that supporting Israel and their quest to kill every Palestinian living in the Gaza Strip is somehow “patriotic”. Remaining quiet when Israel bans President Carter from going to Gaza speaks volumes about the Democrats. Israel’s insistence on refusing to negotiate with Hamas, and the Democrats refusal to back Carter when he takes on the job of doing it himself, also exposes the Democrats lack of conviction to real peace in the Middle-East. Embracing change doesn’t mean that half of the people that run the Clinton and Obama campaigns should be members of The Council for Foreign Relations. Check that little tidbit out for yourselves.
So with this article I guess I’ll be thrown off more so-called “progressive” websites. I’m getting used to it. I’ve been thrown off some of the biggest sites on the web. God-forbid I call the Democrats on their pro-corporate, pro-military, pro AIPAC stances. Just call me a rabble-rouser and a misfit because I won’t drink that Democrat flavored Kool-Aid of “change”.
That’s the way I see it. (Although I wish it weren’t so)
Friday, April 18, 2008
"Progressive" Kool-Aid
The reality is that the so-called “Progressive” websites, you know, the ones that beat up Bush and the Neo-Cons and tell you they are on the “Cutting Edge” of Liberal/Progressive politics, sites like Daily Kos, OpEdNews.com, TPM Muckracker and others, well the fact is while they are throwing around terms like Neo-Con “Kool-Aid”, they are serving up nothing but a different flavor of the same Kool-Aid that they abhor, this time its Corporate Democrat flavored Kool-Aid.
In fact, if you look closely at these sites, you will hardly even be able to tell that only six months ago, these very same sites were running articles from Progressives that were castigating both parties. Like clockwork, the majority of the “radical” Progressives fell in line behind their Jackass Party to vote and campaign for the “lesser of two evils” as in so many elections before. Don’t blame the writers, at least not all of them; blame the “gatekeepers” of the Progressive wing of the DNC. Blame those that have foisted the idea that these sites were somehow “alternative” and were somehow outside of the conventional duopoly of this American political system. See how far any writer gets that criticizes the sainted Barack Obama and calls him out on the bundled campaign donations totaling millions that he has taken from investment bankers and hedge fund managers. See if your articles see the light of day when you write how he turned his back on his Arab-=American constituency in Illinois to embrace the principles of AIPAC. Watch how fast you are branded anti-Semitic if you question our loyalty to a radical regime in Tel-Aviv that can’t be discerned from the neo-cons in Washington.
This country needs more Democrats in Congress and in the White House like another War in the Middle-East. Doesn’t anyone remember what Pelosi did with her new-found majority in Congress? She stated as one of her first objectives that “Impeachment was off the table”. Impeachments off the table, what the hell were they thinking when they came up with that? Since then we have been spied on, we have increased the number of troops in Iraq without an end in sight, we have dropped another 100 tons of depleted uranium on the country of Iraq, pissed off the Russians, saber-rattled on Iran, and tortured an untold number of human beings! Are these gatekeepers of the Democratic Party really so naive that they believe that writers who have been speaking truth to power for so many years are going to follow them blindly into another corporate political party trap? Apparently a number of writers already have. Some writers that I have always respected have gone willingly to the DNC with their keyboards sheepishly in their hands. I’ve been personally vilified for not falling into line. It’s a bitch when you see sites that once headlined your articles promoting the same political propaganda that you’ve been fighting against for years.
So call me a radical. I guess when push comes to shove, that is exactly what I am. I realize that if you are going to write what you believe in this once great nation, there is bound to be blowback. I just never expected it to come from the direction that it’s been coming at me. I’m not surprised at the people that have again taken the Democrats to heart; I just never expected that there would be so many of them. I guess the American people can be fooled over and over again because they are so busy waiting for their rebates so they can buy the newest type of cell-phone so they can text their friends.
When genuine alternative candidates emerge, they are marginalized by the corporate mainstream media and kicked off debates without a word being said by the masses. Meanwhile they cheer when the comedian George Carlin tells them how F**ked they really are! You figure it out. Seems like the American People have lost the art of critical thinking to the point that they will believe anything as long as Daily Kos and OpEdNews and other “Progressive” sites say it’s OK to become screwed again. This is the total definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I know what Barack Obama is; he is a politician. He may be a good politician, but he is just another politician just the same. At this particular juncture of American history, with all that is on our table, with all that has happened in the last decade, we need another politician like a collective hole in our heads. We need a Statesman, not another damned politician.
People can continue to drink that Kool-Aid they are serving from the “Progressive Media” but I’ll have none of it. I’ve seen what happens to people that drink that Kool-Aid. I’ve seen what happens to the people around them. I’ve seen this country raped for everything that we hold dear, like our manufacturing jobs, out budget being poured into the sands of the Middle-East, the deaths of our Sons and Daughters for profits that go to the defense contractors and their shareholders. The word “Progressive” to me is just another word for Democrat. There is nothing “Progressive” about the Democratic Party, just as there is nothing “Conservative” about the Republicans’, it’s all the same type of hyperbole that we have been assaulted with for decades. My biggest fear is that when Americans finally get around to giving a goddamn about what is happening to their freedoms and their country, that it will be too late, if it isn’t already. If and when that happens and people are dragged away screaming and protesting about those “rights” that are being usurped at the time they are taken away, I don’t want to hear it. Those “rights” that they think they have are almost gone now. This country needs a political revolution and I don’t see the Democrats figuring in it at all. This I sincerely believe is our last chance to turn this republic around.
I believe that Jesse Ventura will run with Mike Gravel on the Libertarian ticket. You don’t need to be a Libertarian to vote for them. You only need to be able to see the forest for the trees. We need to rid ourselves of the corporate influence that has permeated our political system. The stench from the MIC is not only hazardous to our republic, its killing hundreds of thousands around the world. Write Jesse Ventura at http://www.voters4ventura.com. Ask him to run with Mike Gravel on the Libertarian Ticket. Make a difference and quit drinking the Kool-Aid these corporate parties are serving. Do it for yourself, do it for your planet. Don’t listen to people when they tell you that voting for Gravel and Ventura will put McCain in the White House, it will put Gravel and Ventura in the White House.
In fact, if you look closely at these sites, you will hardly even be able to tell that only six months ago, these very same sites were running articles from Progressives that were castigating both parties. Like clockwork, the majority of the “radical” Progressives fell in line behind their Jackass Party to vote and campaign for the “lesser of two evils” as in so many elections before. Don’t blame the writers, at least not all of them; blame the “gatekeepers” of the Progressive wing of the DNC. Blame those that have foisted the idea that these sites were somehow “alternative” and were somehow outside of the conventional duopoly of this American political system. See how far any writer gets that criticizes the sainted Barack Obama and calls him out on the bundled campaign donations totaling millions that he has taken from investment bankers and hedge fund managers. See if your articles see the light of day when you write how he turned his back on his Arab-=American constituency in Illinois to embrace the principles of AIPAC. Watch how fast you are branded anti-Semitic if you question our loyalty to a radical regime in Tel-Aviv that can’t be discerned from the neo-cons in Washington.
This country needs more Democrats in Congress and in the White House like another War in the Middle-East. Doesn’t anyone remember what Pelosi did with her new-found majority in Congress? She stated as one of her first objectives that “Impeachment was off the table”. Impeachments off the table, what the hell were they thinking when they came up with that? Since then we have been spied on, we have increased the number of troops in Iraq without an end in sight, we have dropped another 100 tons of depleted uranium on the country of Iraq, pissed off the Russians, saber-rattled on Iran, and tortured an untold number of human beings! Are these gatekeepers of the Democratic Party really so naive that they believe that writers who have been speaking truth to power for so many years are going to follow them blindly into another corporate political party trap? Apparently a number of writers already have. Some writers that I have always respected have gone willingly to the DNC with their keyboards sheepishly in their hands. I’ve been personally vilified for not falling into line. It’s a bitch when you see sites that once headlined your articles promoting the same political propaganda that you’ve been fighting against for years.
So call me a radical. I guess when push comes to shove, that is exactly what I am. I realize that if you are going to write what you believe in this once great nation, there is bound to be blowback. I just never expected it to come from the direction that it’s been coming at me. I’m not surprised at the people that have again taken the Democrats to heart; I just never expected that there would be so many of them. I guess the American people can be fooled over and over again because they are so busy waiting for their rebates so they can buy the newest type of cell-phone so they can text their friends.
When genuine alternative candidates emerge, they are marginalized by the corporate mainstream media and kicked off debates without a word being said by the masses. Meanwhile they cheer when the comedian George Carlin tells them how F**ked they really are! You figure it out. Seems like the American People have lost the art of critical thinking to the point that they will believe anything as long as Daily Kos and OpEdNews and other “Progressive” sites say it’s OK to become screwed again. This is the total definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I know what Barack Obama is; he is a politician. He may be a good politician, but he is just another politician just the same. At this particular juncture of American history, with all that is on our table, with all that has happened in the last decade, we need another politician like a collective hole in our heads. We need a Statesman, not another damned politician.
People can continue to drink that Kool-Aid they are serving from the “Progressive Media” but I’ll have none of it. I’ve seen what happens to people that drink that Kool-Aid. I’ve seen what happens to the people around them. I’ve seen this country raped for everything that we hold dear, like our manufacturing jobs, out budget being poured into the sands of the Middle-East, the deaths of our Sons and Daughters for profits that go to the defense contractors and their shareholders. The word “Progressive” to me is just another word for Democrat. There is nothing “Progressive” about the Democratic Party, just as there is nothing “Conservative” about the Republicans’, it’s all the same type of hyperbole that we have been assaulted with for decades. My biggest fear is that when Americans finally get around to giving a goddamn about what is happening to their freedoms and their country, that it will be too late, if it isn’t already. If and when that happens and people are dragged away screaming and protesting about those “rights” that are being usurped at the time they are taken away, I don’t want to hear it. Those “rights” that they think they have are almost gone now. This country needs a political revolution and I don’t see the Democrats figuring in it at all. This I sincerely believe is our last chance to turn this republic around.
I believe that Jesse Ventura will run with Mike Gravel on the Libertarian ticket. You don’t need to be a Libertarian to vote for them. You only need to be able to see the forest for the trees. We need to rid ourselves of the corporate influence that has permeated our political system. The stench from the MIC is not only hazardous to our republic, its killing hundreds of thousands around the world. Write Jesse Ventura at http://www.voters4ventura.com. Ask him to run with Mike Gravel on the Libertarian Ticket. Make a difference and quit drinking the Kool-Aid these corporate parties are serving. Do it for yourself, do it for your planet. Don’t listen to people when they tell you that voting for Gravel and Ventura will put McCain in the White House, it will put Gravel and Ventura in the White House.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The Democrats Need a Good Spanking
This has been coming for a long time. I’ve been watching the politicians in Washington very closely to see exactly how they intended to manage an administration that is so extremely neo-conservative that they are dangerous to this country and the world. I’ve seen heroic stances by some like Dennis Kucinich, Bernie Sanders, Patrick Leahy, Russ Feingold and even Ron Paul. However, this is not enough. We’ve seen Cynthia McKinney disenfranchised as well as others that have stood up to tyranny and war. Meanwhile, while all of this has taken place, the Democratic Party has been split down the middle and has offered no protection or support to any that oppose the horrendous regime in Washington.
Now the Democrats tell us that they will end this war in Iraq, yet no candidate will agree to pull out of the country, telling us that we will have a “presence” there for years. The Democrats have fallen short of every stated goal that they promised during the 2006 Congressional Elections. They have supported funding at every request from this administration for more useless carnage in Iraq. The Speaker of the House took impeachment “off the table” and it’s still off the table, even though this President declared that he authorized torture in violation of US and International Law. The Democrats have played politics with the revisions of our basic Constitutional rights as witnessed by the Patriot Act 1 and 2, The Military Commissions Act of 2006 that negated Posse Comitatus, the law that was written to prevent the President or anyone else from using the military for law enforcement inside the US, unless mandated by Congress.
Those examples of the breakdown of Constitutional Government are just a few of the draconian measures that have been put forth since this phony ‘Global War on Terror” started on 9/11/2001. To this day we have not positively identified who was responsible for the attacks. The government tells us who did it, but no formal investigation and charges have been made, while the Democrats have sat on their hands in fear. This behavior from Democrats has been going on for the last seven years. Now we are embroiled in a General Election and they have the audacity to ask us to support their corporate controlled candidates.
Corporate control, or should I say the Military Industrial Complex, are the puppet masters behind the scenes of both major political parties. So far the candidates have spent $586.1 Million and raised $791.8 Million dollars for their political coffers. This is before the General Election segment of the race for President. The cost of becoming President will run into the Billions for the first time in American history. Meanwhile, candidates that don’t tow the corporate MIC line are marginalized and thrown off debates. This has been happening for decades now, and neither party has addressed this issue of corporate money in politics save John McCain and Russ Feingold that introduced a campaign reform bill that was too little, too late.
I know what the Republicans that control their party want. They are very vocal about what it is that drives them. Although they have outspent every prior administration in history they claim that they want “fiscal responsibility”. They also believe in faith based initiatives, something that is actually prohibited by our Constitution that proposes a separation of church and state. The majority of Republicans actually support this war in the Middle East, although I believe not as many as the GOP thinks. Still, the Republicans are forthright in what they stand for. I may not agree with them, but I understand them.
Not so the Democrats that say they that they are against the war and want to restore the Constitution. I believe nothing of what they claim to stand for when I see the people that work for the two Democratic contenders. I see their campaign donations and I realize that they are backed by the same MIC that backs Republican candidates. “Republican Light” is not just a clever description of the Democratic Party. It is a cold hard fact in this 21st Century. The Democrats pander to the liberal/left, but they will not support anything that we propose. They mollify us in the hope that we will dutifully back the “lesser of two evils”. This type of reasoning has also gone on too long. I believe that Americans that believe in Liberal principles are totally fed up with the political machines that run Washington, and their collusion with lobbyists and their backing by the MIC.
The Democrats have dug their own grave by inaction and a lack of decisiveness on almost every issue that is presented to them. John Conyers is a perfect example of a stooge. He calls for impeachment and asks for co-sponsors on his bill, and when he gets the number that will co-sponsor the bill, he raises the ante and claims he needs more. Is this the “checks and balances” that the American people expect from the opposition party? Meanwhile, our President is guilty of a multitude of crimes that are considered by our laws to be treasonous. The Democrats have voted for every military appropriations bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Democrats have voted with the Republicans on almost every bill that shreds our Constitution.
Now, when election time draws near, they finally stand up to the Administration on the FISA Bill that would give immunity to the telecommunications companies that illegally wiretapped American citizen’s on the Federal Governments say so. They call this a brave stand, but they won’t indict the President for authorizing the illegal wiretaps of his citizen’s in the first place! Why do Americans continue to support a political party that claims to be the “opposition” party to the neo-con regime we have in power, and colludes with them on almost everything?
I was a Democrat for over 50 years. It pains me to write the things I’m writing, but I would rather speak the truth than to comfort myself with the idea that this nation will be better with Democrats controlling the government. I would ask every citizen to forget about the two parties and vote your conscience. Vote for the person with the most integrity and not because he has a jackass for a political symbol. Vote Green, vote Independent, vote for the best candidate that will end these wars and restore the Constitution. It is a fallacy that only a Republican or a Democrat can win the Presidency. The two parties recite that mantra along with the corporate owned mainstream media until the masses believe it. Ross Perot received 24% of the vote when he ran. The Libertarian Party has ballot access in 48 States and will have all 50 before the election.
I’m not telling anyone who to vote for, all I’m asking is that you revue the work of the Democrats for the last seven years and make your decision on whether you trust them to change anything. Political parties should be a thing of the past. Having a Democratic majority in Washington won’t change things or restore our Constitution. Truthfully, I’d be ecstatic to see Democrats turning their backs on the Democratic Party. They deserve to be spanked, and spanked hard, especially by Liberal/Progressives.
That’s the way I see it.
Now the Democrats tell us that they will end this war in Iraq, yet no candidate will agree to pull out of the country, telling us that we will have a “presence” there for years. The Democrats have fallen short of every stated goal that they promised during the 2006 Congressional Elections. They have supported funding at every request from this administration for more useless carnage in Iraq. The Speaker of the House took impeachment “off the table” and it’s still off the table, even though this President declared that he authorized torture in violation of US and International Law. The Democrats have played politics with the revisions of our basic Constitutional rights as witnessed by the Patriot Act 1 and 2, The Military Commissions Act of 2006 that negated Posse Comitatus, the law that was written to prevent the President or anyone else from using the military for law enforcement inside the US, unless mandated by Congress.
Those examples of the breakdown of Constitutional Government are just a few of the draconian measures that have been put forth since this phony ‘Global War on Terror” started on 9/11/2001. To this day we have not positively identified who was responsible for the attacks. The government tells us who did it, but no formal investigation and charges have been made, while the Democrats have sat on their hands in fear. This behavior from Democrats has been going on for the last seven years. Now we are embroiled in a General Election and they have the audacity to ask us to support their corporate controlled candidates.
Corporate control, or should I say the Military Industrial Complex, are the puppet masters behind the scenes of both major political parties. So far the candidates have spent $586.1 Million and raised $791.8 Million dollars for their political coffers. This is before the General Election segment of the race for President. The cost of becoming President will run into the Billions for the first time in American history. Meanwhile, candidates that don’t tow the corporate MIC line are marginalized and thrown off debates. This has been happening for decades now, and neither party has addressed this issue of corporate money in politics save John McCain and Russ Feingold that introduced a campaign reform bill that was too little, too late.
I know what the Republicans that control their party want. They are very vocal about what it is that drives them. Although they have outspent every prior administration in history they claim that they want “fiscal responsibility”. They also believe in faith based initiatives, something that is actually prohibited by our Constitution that proposes a separation of church and state. The majority of Republicans actually support this war in the Middle East, although I believe not as many as the GOP thinks. Still, the Republicans are forthright in what they stand for. I may not agree with them, but I understand them.
Not so the Democrats that say they that they are against the war and want to restore the Constitution. I believe nothing of what they claim to stand for when I see the people that work for the two Democratic contenders. I see their campaign donations and I realize that they are backed by the same MIC that backs Republican candidates. “Republican Light” is not just a clever description of the Democratic Party. It is a cold hard fact in this 21st Century. The Democrats pander to the liberal/left, but they will not support anything that we propose. They mollify us in the hope that we will dutifully back the “lesser of two evils”. This type of reasoning has also gone on too long. I believe that Americans that believe in Liberal principles are totally fed up with the political machines that run Washington, and their collusion with lobbyists and their backing by the MIC.
The Democrats have dug their own grave by inaction and a lack of decisiveness on almost every issue that is presented to them. John Conyers is a perfect example of a stooge. He calls for impeachment and asks for co-sponsors on his bill, and when he gets the number that will co-sponsor the bill, he raises the ante and claims he needs more. Is this the “checks and balances” that the American people expect from the opposition party? Meanwhile, our President is guilty of a multitude of crimes that are considered by our laws to be treasonous. The Democrats have voted for every military appropriations bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Democrats have voted with the Republicans on almost every bill that shreds our Constitution.
Now, when election time draws near, they finally stand up to the Administration on the FISA Bill that would give immunity to the telecommunications companies that illegally wiretapped American citizen’s on the Federal Governments say so. They call this a brave stand, but they won’t indict the President for authorizing the illegal wiretaps of his citizen’s in the first place! Why do Americans continue to support a political party that claims to be the “opposition” party to the neo-con regime we have in power, and colludes with them on almost everything?
I was a Democrat for over 50 years. It pains me to write the things I’m writing, but I would rather speak the truth than to comfort myself with the idea that this nation will be better with Democrats controlling the government. I would ask every citizen to forget about the two parties and vote your conscience. Vote for the person with the most integrity and not because he has a jackass for a political symbol. Vote Green, vote Independent, vote for the best candidate that will end these wars and restore the Constitution. It is a fallacy that only a Republican or a Democrat can win the Presidency. The two parties recite that mantra along with the corporate owned mainstream media until the masses believe it. Ross Perot received 24% of the vote when he ran. The Libertarian Party has ballot access in 48 States and will have all 50 before the election.
I’m not telling anyone who to vote for, all I’m asking is that you revue the work of the Democrats for the last seven years and make your decision on whether you trust them to change anything. Political parties should be a thing of the past. Having a Democratic majority in Washington won’t change things or restore our Constitution. Truthfully, I’d be ecstatic to see Democrats turning their backs on the Democratic Party. They deserve to be spanked, and spanked hard, especially by Liberal/Progressives.
That’s the way I see it.
I Like Mike
Voting for the lesser of two evils is a cowardly act. Vote your conscience or forever hold you piece. Mike Gravel is the best candidate to turn this nation around. This is whether you are a Libertarian or not. Vote with your head and your heart.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
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