(September 19, 2015 at 7:11 pm)tjakey Wrote: I will vote or Sanders, if he makes it to the finals, for no other reason but to listen to the Wingers in this country go completely bat shit crazy. Other than that though, I will probably be far away on election day and not bother. Anyone who thinks that this country can be saved by an election is, in my humble opinion, living a fantasy. At some point a system is too badly broken to be fixed. Progress will only come when that system is replaced by something new. Any election that does nothing but put Democrats and Republicans in the White House, the Senate, and the House, will just be more of the same old system.
Light me up a revolution. Put millions of Americans in the streets calling for resignations, trials, imprisonments, and wide spread removal of the elite in power. Have them rampage through the SC building, haul the Justices who voted for Citizen United before a tribunal and have them tried for treason. Actually Occupy Wall Street this time, haul that bronze bull out and throw it in the Bay, shut down the Market until the Big Banks are busted up, and have the CEOs doing perp-walks while Faux news goes dark because the FCC pulled their operating ticket in fear of the protesters paralyzing DC and chasing winger governors out of State Houses across the nation. Write and approve a new Constitution. The old one gave us the nation we see now, steeped in elitism, crony capitalism, war mongering, violence, racism, and misogyny.
Start any of that and I might think something is finally happening. Otherwise it will just be the US fading into the dustbin of history. The only real question is what comes next, and how it arrives. But it will not arrive on the back of a sham election put on by a sham democracy, were the voters are a people buried in propaganda and unable to tell fact from fiction.
Revolution of that sort is bloody... and I'm afraid that your millions of americans in the streets probably don't have all that many tanks and jets at their command. It'd be a massacre, and most people don't have the jaw for it. I know I don't, the cost of any type of war is on MAGNITUDES greater a scale than the immediate monetary cost of bullets and deployments. Human magnitudes.
This country will not be 'saved' by an election, not ANY singular election, of any single person. You have to work at that from the ground up, and you DO, you *DO* have the option of accomplishing a ground-up restructuring of your government. Whether you run yourself, whether you vote for others... start at your local level... the 'inconsequential people' that you barely hear about. Those people accomplish a shit ton more than most people imagine they do, and they can use local governing as platforms to become mayors and governors and legislators.
You don't need to rewrite a governmental system that wasn't actually broken to begin with. Every system has its flaws, and this system's flaws aren't all that bad, so long as you've an educated populace (the internet goes a LONG WAYS with this... Sanders COULD NOT run without it), and a participating populace.
You can enact change. The system is designed as a PYRAMID.
You are the bottom of that pyramid. When you're missing? THE STRUCTURE FUCKING FALLS.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
