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"News that's not known, or not known enough." Helen & Harry Highwater's cranky weblog of news and opinion. |
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Why people still waste their time is a mystery to me by Leon Fisher, leonjfisher@webtv.net It is both shocking and depressing to think that there are still large numbers of average citizens who still naively think that one of the political charlatans now running for President will be elected by votes cast by average citizens like themselves.
It is simply absurd to think that a few new faces in Washington will save America from economic ruin at the hands of the Wall Street robber barons, restore Constitutional government, and end American military involvement in both Afghanistan and Iraq. This is not going to happen as long as corporate and special interest cash pours into Washington. The winner of the election, regardless of political party, will function as mere window dressing while the real decisions will continue being made behind closed doors in corporate boardrooms and in the capitols of foreign governments. Candidates who express a return to a government of the people, such as Ron Paul, although having been able to raise large sums of cash and grassroots support, are being minimized just like the candidacy of Ralph Nader, who years before dared to question and criticize the status quo. The present candidates, whether they be Democrats such as Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, or Republicans like John McCain or Mitt Romney, are not participating in a genuine election, but a charade where the outcome has already been decided long before the first vote is cast. If this is not the case as some would argue, then why has America's leadership failed to act in favor of the people they feign to represent? The American people never voted to send their jobs overseas, nor have they voted to allow millions of undocumented workers flood their workplace with cheap labor, nor have the American people voted for a foreign policy which benefits corporate profit and foreign interests over that of the legitimate safety and welfare of the nation. In every election for the last thirty-five years, Americans have voted for candidates who promised to act in their behalf, but all that the American voter has gotten are empty promises, empty pockets, and a mountain of debt. The winners of these fraudulent elections are, as always, those who can pay the most for services rendered by our now "selected" leaders in Washington. Our so-called representatives and their masters on Wall Street, not content with the looting and plunder of the American workplace, are now considering passing into law even more onerous and despotic legislation than that already on the books, legislation making free thought a crime against the State, not to protect America from terrorism, but to protect themselves against the wrath of the people. Of course, you do not hear the candidates speaking of this pending legislation which they support and vote for, but instead they loudly pontificate about freedom and liberty. So this is what we get to vote for in 2008, a continuation of the outsourcing of our jobs, resulting in the decline in our standard of living, a continuous state of war, and the establishment of a police state, American style. As for those who still believe that change is still possible in the voting booth, please indulge your fantasy, but for the rest of us who have come to our senses and live in the real world, we must no longer participate in any exercise which will give the corporate fascist Wall Street controlled state any semblance of legitimacy. Do not vote in their rigged elections, and do not invest in the legalized crime syndicate known as the stock market, which as we speak, is responsible for plunging our nation into yet another economic depression. © by the author.
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