Commentary By Ron Beasley
"If elections mattered they would be illegal". This statement was from a citizen of Greece. The Greeks are expeirencig this first hand as the technocrats working for the big banks have taken over their country - an economic Third Reich. Over at The Moderate Voice Pete Barnes has a must read post - What Capitialist Don't Know: Without Democracy Capitalism Dies,
Here is a teaser:
In the 1990s renowned political scientist and author Ben Barber wrote in Jihad vs McWorld that global capitalism was at war with democracy. He was right, of course, and the intensity of that war has only increased since then. Global corporations are battling democracy�s environmental regulations, taxation, labor laws, legislation aimed at fairness or income equality. They are battling democracy�s concern for the long-term survival of community or any values more human than economic.
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You know, we can blame corporations, plutocrats, legislators and "the other guy" all we want, but when it comes right down to it, how do 329 million people lose to 1 million people? They lose because they choose not to exercise their power; their power to organize, their power to vote, and their power to engage in revolution.
ReplyDeleteOnly 8% of the people in this nation approve of Congress, but 85% or more of those legislators will be reelected to office in November. We will blame the 1% for that. We will blame corporate advertising and the "Citizens United" decision. We will blame the legislators themselves. We will blame the media.
The things we will not blame are the millions of people who did not vote. We will not blame the millions of people who voted for the incumbent because it was the only name they recognized on the ballot. We will not blame the millions of people who voted for the incumbent because he brought "x amount" of pork barrel spending to their town.
"We are working to support our families," we will say, "and we don't have time to research for the truth. What are we supposed to do?"
Well, how badly do you want good government? The 99% has the power of the vote, and we don't use it. We have millions of excuses why we don't use it. If we spent as much time using it as we spend making up excuses why we don't use it and complaining about the results of not using it, we would have a far better government than we do.
So Bill H if all headed out to the polls this November what's the choice for the top politician in the mythical land of the exceptional: Plastic man one or Plastic man two. The only thing differentiating the two males in this year's media and celebrity extravaganza is skin color. To any close observer both are vacuous narcissists who are simply clever at pretending to be human but in fact have both proven they offer nothing but highly polished emptiness. The real problem is that any one goes to vote. Let the 1% vote and continue to pretend they live in a democracy after all they've bought and paid for the illusion.
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