RE: No money for Unemployment Comp or Food Stamps, but Plenty for Bombs and War
September 25, 2014 at 12:29 am
(September 24, 2014 at 10:32 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 24, 2014 at 10:11 pm)tjakey Wrote: [...]
held my nose and voted for the lesser of major evils
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Vote, run for office if you like, I might even admire you for doing so. But this nation is far past fixing, way too ill to recover.
Nothing personal, but I think there might be a connection right there.
Nothing in this country will change until voters quit thinking that there are only two parties. There are options. It's not a horse race, you don't win a jackpot for picking the winner.
Mm, I didn't say "lesser of two evils". I don't actually think there are only two parties in the US, I think there is only one. Republicans and Democrats are both pro-war, both wedded to crony capitalism and the money the robber barons shovel into political campaigns. Nearly everyone holding a national political office is at least a millionaire several times over. Their first priority is to protect their own economic interests, particularly when they leave office and pick a revolving door to Wall Street, Mega Corporate America, or Think Tank funded by Mega Corporate America. No one who is a serious threat to the military / corporate / religious junta will ever be allowed on a ballot. (Which means alternate party options really aren't options. Voting for one may make you feel all dressed up in democracy, but it will not keep the cold wind of a thoroughly corrupted system from freezing your ass.)
You are right, it isn't a horse race. But it is a race already rigged. The jackpot was divided up long ago, and the American people didn't get any of it.