Topic: Economics
Our Republic Raped and Still No Revolution! Ousting Democrats and Republicans is more justified and needed than removing the tyranny of the King of England. Our elected domestic tyranny operating as a plutocracy masquerading as a democracy has been raping our nation.by Joel S. Hirschhorn
(centrist liberal libertarian)
Monday, September 22, 2008
Are Americans ready for a revolution? What worse than the current meltdown of the financial sector, the unraveling of our economy, and burdening us and future generations with astounding debt is needed to convince Americans that the two-party plutocracy has sold out ordinary Americans? What we are witnessing is far worse than the taxation without representation that spurred the American Revolution. Taxation with MISrepresentation is a greater evil and shameful sellout of democracy that so many Americans have fought and died for.
Yet, despite over 80 percent of Americans saying that the nation is on the wrong track BEFORE the current financial crisis, Americans sheepishly seem ready and willing this year to keep voting for Democrats and Republicans. If they had one shred of the smartness and courage of our nation's Founders, they would overwhelmingly vote for third party presidential candidates to send the clearest and most patriotic message possible to the ruling class that has both major parties in their pocket.
Ousting Democrats and Republicans is more justified and needed than removing the tyranny of the King of England. Our elected domestic tyranny operating as a plutocracy masquerading as a democracy has been raping our nation. Yet middle class victims seem more than willing to keep bending over and asking for more pain and insult as they fall hook, line and sinker for the lies of both Barack Obama and John McCain.
It is far too easy, with the financial sector meltdown, for Americans to only blame Republicans. But Bill Clinton started the deregulation of the financial sector and every evil and stupid thing George W. Bush and Republicans have done could not have happened without the cooperation of corrupt and cowardly Democrats in Congress. They too have inflicted economic sodomy on us and contributed to disgracing our Constitution.
What incredible absurdity that the government seems ready to spend $700 billion to bail out countless crooked, mismanaged and greedy companies (and similar money on the Iraq war) and not ever seriously propose to spend that kind of money on rebuilding the nation's crumbling physical infrastructure that would immediately create millions of new good paying jobs desperately needed by the middle class.
Now is the time for Americans to wake up, stand up and vote down Republicans and Democrats. How wonderful it would be if the candidate that claims the presidency only receives, say, 20 percent of all eligible voters. This is the first necessary step for "we the people" to take back OUR country.
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With or without pitch forks, I think that an angry mob should now be performing a citizens' arrest of the perps who must ultimately be brought to justice. I'm a little disappointed that the Ron Paul press conference was only able to urge "vote third party" and yet that would be divided among four candidates. There's yet another idea, which is to boycott the election all together. (America doesn't even count the votes these days; you won't be missed.) In some ways, that's more attractive, because these four brave, intrepid candidates are lowering themselves by dignifying a rigged game. After the invention of information technology, and in particular the SCROLL BAR which appears on every web page, there is no excuse for excluding ANYONE from the ballot. If 2,000 candidates registered to run for President, all 2,000 could be handled by way of the SCROLL BAR or by paged output. In the age of the information explosion, there is NO EXCUSE anymore for ballot-access restrictions. Those four candidates shouldn't even be playing the game on the tilted playing field rigged by their opponents. BTW, there's something you said in your piece- "How wonderful it would be if the candidate that claims the presidency only receives, say, 20 percent of all eligible voters." - Um, Joel, that's been the standard for years. 20 percent of the people elected Ronald Reagan. When 60 percent of people don't vote, a winner getting near 50% (of the headline number) is really getting only 20% of the people. So, your wonderful outcome or scenario already came true 28 years ago. To reduce that 20% number still further, that calls for a truly effective election boycott, as I suggested above.
"The Soviet Union had a single, entrenched, systemically corrupt political party, which held a monopoly on power. The United States has two entrenched, systemically corrupt political parties, whose positions are often indistinguishable, and which together hold a monopoly on power. In either case, there is, or was, a single governing elite, but in the United States it organized itself into opposing teams to make its stranglehold on power seem more sportsmanlike."
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