2020
has become the focal point that has fixated the American electorate. Sometimes
I feel sympathy for the American people because they have been jerked around
and lied to for their entire lives. But it boggles my mind when I try to figure
out why it is the American voters are so gullible until I remember I was
gullible once myself. This article written by Charles Austin published
September 22,2017 in the web only issue of In These Times exposes the problems
the American voter faces.
Money
in politics encourages corruption. If you'd like to examine the breakdown of
the study from those who collected and analyzed the data leading to that
conclusion you can do so. The investigation was done by The Roosevelt Institute. It's here at the highlighted link.
Another book
written by a corrupt American politician explains that corruption is the way
politics in America works. George Washington Plunkitt a well respected Senator
from the State of New York praises what he calls 'graft'. There's good 'graft'
and bad 'graft' and Plunkitt makes plain how to go after and get the good
'graft'. "Plunkitt of Tammany
Hall" is the name of the book.
Finding
oneself at the mercy of politicians who are working for the non voting donor
class of artificially created 'corporate non-human people' is not a good place for a voter to find
oneself. Especially if you are part of a human family with ordinary everyday
needs that are dismissed by the elite ruling class of corporately biased
politicians.
Under the
Trump Administration the Republicans and Democrats have by all appearances agreed to consider the
ordinary everyday needs of the voter to be of negligible concern to them. This
horrendous spectacle of government shutdown produced by the Republican and
Democratic lawmakers demonstrates how completely out of touch the Republican
and Democrats are with the fundamental needs wishes and desires of the voting class of human beings. Their actions
indicate they simply do not have a clue. Or maybe they just don't care.
So we have
the voting class looking for new ideas and it has come upon the old time remedy
for these problems. Socialism is once again being considered in several formats in an
attempt to find ideas that will amend the problems created by the malfeasance
of the Republican and Democratic lawmakers over the last 40 years or so.
Life
on Main Street America has gone rapidly down hill ever since the Reagan
Administration. The problems we are encountering today in the U.S. are the
direct result of Republican and Democratic lawmakers deciding to consider the
wishes of 'corporate people' who are unable to vote as the basis for making laws. You didn't make the laws of this diseased society, I
didn't do it, they did do it. Republican and Democratic lawmakers have
demonstrated they cannot be counted on to respond to the voters wishes even for things as fundamental as their most basic human needs such as employment, housing, healthcare and
education. It's time to show them the door.
So 2020 is a
real big deal. America, and Americans themselves are on the verge of
disappearing into an unregulated corporate wasteland. They are desperate for
new faces in the legislative bodies and above all new ideas about the purpose
of having a government. It is dawning on many that up to now they have been
used to enrich the Wall Street elite donor class. You can imagine how the
people must feel realizing they've been treated like dogs. Some not that good,
even the master takes the dog to the vet, but many Americans go begging when
they get sick.
I'm happy to
see the alternative voices that have begun to speak out. It's a good sign. Many of the voices are young and they are
going to have to live in the world. Their input is necessary and expected. God
bless them.
New ideas of
any value to human beings cannot be expected to arise from
Republican or Democratic planners. The reason is because all they do is done
within the constraints of the relationship between the politician and the
corporate donor class. If this is not completely accurate it is mostly accurate and it is a good way to
describe the need to breach this partnership of politicians who take money from
those who cannot vote and make laws on behalf of those who cannot vote. There
is something fundamentally wrong with that scenario. You can readily see why
it's not good to have those kind of relationships continuing in a society which
is supposed to be run democratically. It's the antithesis of the democratic
process!
That seems
to be the reason many Americans are now willing to look to the Left and
consider the previously culturally
forbidden ideas that have always come to the forefront when the effects of the
elite donor class have made life on Main Street undesirable.
