Twenty-five percent of the world's prison population is in America. It's estimated one in four African Americans will be in the prison system at some point, and one in eleven American males. China, who our propaganda machine constantly attacks for being oppressive to their population, has 4x more people than we do, yet far-less prisoners, in what we see as an authoritarian communist government. (This is by no means support for communism or China, but our media portrays them as one large prison)
In a free country, we have a staggering amount of people with their freedom taken away. A lot of this stems from The War on Drugs, a war as impossible to win as the War on Terror. You can't wage war on a product with demand or an emotion and expect to win. The War on Drugs as exploded the prison population, sending NON-VIOLENT criminals to prison, our treatment programs are a joke, and have a high failure rate. Drugs addicts have become comparable to the mental patients of the past; nobody in government knows how to deal with them, so they are simply removed from sight.
You can lose your life in prison without taking the life of another person in this country. Many people begin selling drugs because they have no other way of making the large sums of cash, especially is poverty stricken neighborhoods. The federalized educational system fails and disenfranchises many of its youth, then turns around and puts them in prison for selling drugs. When they are arrested someone else steps in to sell the product, it will never end, the cycle has never come close to ending.
Mexico is absolute chaos right now, drug cartels are slaughtering people, and waging war on U.S. Border Patrol. Officials in Mexico claim "it means the war is working". When drugs still pour into the country as before, and violence has spiked. If drugs were decriminalized and sold by pharmacy's all of the money and power would be taken from these violent cartels...yet the "war" continues.
The U.S. Government has no real interest in ending the war on drugs. As a youth in a lower-class area of a lower class town I never remembered hearing people using heroin or talking about it being around town. Now, it's unbelievable how many people who take and become addicted to the drug whom I know personally and are not from broken homes. This happened of course during the War on Terror. Before the war, the Taliban had almost completely wiped out Poppy growth in Afghanistan. Prior to the regime, Afghanistan was the largest producer of Opium worldwide. After U.S. troops arrived, production is up 95% and the biggest export of the country. The media and mouthpieces claim "we have to support the opium trade to keep the farmers with jobs". Now our youth suffer from a growth in heroin, a spike the drug has not seen in decades. (pun intended) I wonder how Afghanistan finds the finances to ship the large quantities of heroin over the world.
If you think I am claiming the U.S. invaded Afghanistan for Opium, you are correct. In the late 80's something very similar happened. The Iran-Contra Affair. The CIA bought Cocaine and showed "Freeway Rick Ross" how to create crack (a more affordable modification of the drug) in L.A. Crack and Cocaine as we know exploded during the 70`s and 80`s. The U.S. Government profited directly from the sale of Cocaine and crack in America, and used the money to support a contra-war in Nicaragua to overthrow the Sandinistas, while also using the money to supply Iran with weapons (who at the time held U.S. hostages)Freeway Ricky Ross ended up in prison for a long time, everyone on the government side of the operation dodged any legal ramifications. Ross' supplier was a CIA agent, this is how his operation became so large, the government didn't touch him until the whole project went public.
So what does all of this mean? It shows the U.S. Government does not care about the people, it looks at us as pawns in the great scheme of global dominance. Our government will take the youth away of it's people and imprison non-violent drug offenders for using or exchanging drugs. This is while the government and CIA wages covert wars for these drugs for rights to distribute in mass quantities.
Private prisons are becoming quite the phenomenon is the U.S., people are making profit from the mistakes of others, they get large government tax breaks and it is IN THEIR INTEREST TO SEE PEOPLE INCARCERATED. There is a prison industry in America. Interesting once again in a "free" country.
During modernity there has been: a devastating fascist government massacring a population of people because of their religion. In our parents generation African Americans were treated as subhuman in so many ways and supported by laws. Europeans nearly erased the indigenous population from this land during it's conception, then humans were shipped to this country to become slaves, Japanese Americans were detained during World War II in America, two major genocides have occurred in the past decade in Africa, another in Bosnia, Japanese massacres in China during WWII, hundreds of thousands of political prisoners executed in Maoist China, hundreds of thousands killed in Stalinist Russia, racial and religious division in Israel.
Excuse me if my tendency is to always mistrust government, because History has shown government is a genocidal maniac. The media frenzy in recent years has directed itself towards people of Latin American heritage and Muslims. Around the world people are detained in prison without judge or jury, held as a terrorist, tortured and executed. Unfortunately for the internationally incarcerated, The Constitution does not expand beyond American borders. Al Qaeda attacked America, not a sovereign nation such as Afghanistan, Iran, or Iraq. Al Qaeda has an international force of...your ready for this? less than 200 people. We didn't find Osama Bin Laden, who is Saudi, just like most of the attackers on 9/11.
Our reason for war in Afghanistan was "terrorists operated from there" where the most extreme sect of Islam, Wahhabism is Saudi Arabia's official religion, an overwhelming majority of terrorist camps are Wahhabi, and financed directly by members of the Saudi Royal Family. Most of the hijackers as we know were Saudi. Whether you believe the mechanics of 9/11 or not, the motives, targets, outcomes and relationships are extremely questionable. It is hard for me to believe the CIA, FBI, President, Lawmakers and media are all so inherently unintelligent, that they could fuck up a global war so badly, where most of the connections point to our very own ally.
The restriction of free speech in this country and domestic spying has increased through expansion of federal power, while our military has expanded operations into the Middle East. A police state grows under our noses, and most people are either too shallow to care, or too afraid to say or do anything about it. The sheriff, city PD, INS, FBI, CIA, Dept of Homeland Security, the National Guard, Military police, State Troopers and many more could arrest anyone they wish, move them through the prison system either at home or internationally and make them vanish if they wanted to. Just so happens over 1 million people go missing in the U.S. every year, less than a thousand dead are found. I'm not making assumptions, but I find it overwhelming how many people disappear from this country, go to prison in this country, or die in an attack by this government when compared to other countries worldwide.
Every major country has at one time or another involved itself in war crimes, and this makes sense, due to how much of a crime war itself is against humanity. Brute force, intimidation, high tech weapons, compliance, fear-mongering is all used by this government both domestically and internationally to cause people to submit. Search police brutality, US war crimes, and the such, it happens every day. Look how violently suppressed protesters are in this day and age, it looks like Communist fucking Russia. The lethargic, pop-culture obsessed, fat, mentally dying U.S. public is the most depressed in the world clinically. Nobody wonders why, they just feed you more drugs, alter your mind, numb you.
Depression occurs because people hate themselves or their lives. Drugs aren't going to change you or your life, they alter senses. Just because a drug is legal and made by Pfizer doesn't mean its healthy or only has positive effects. It alters your mind, the chemical makeup of you. Here is an idea for depressed people, your job has you down? QUIT. Significant other making you miserable? GO GET SOMEONE ELSE. Hopelessly lost in debt? FUCK EM, YOU DON'T HAVE THE MONEY. Want to get away from your life? GO, RUN AWAY.
This generation is nothing more than a science experiment, people refuse to read, they believe whatever they see on television, though they remind themselves daily how reality can be changed with special effects. New drugs come out to make the imperfect (everyone) perfect. Hair removal, fat burners, wrinkle remover, penis enlargers, drugs to change eyelashes, skin, nails. Commercials pound these products into your head every day to make you feel imperfect. We are fed Cheetos, soda, candy, fast food, grease, all of the things guaranteed to kill. We are slowly becoming a diluted, processed, molded humanity.
One of my favorite lyrics says "There is a war going on for your mind, if you are thinking you are winning". I write these articles because I'm pissed off, I see through the bullshit the government and false speakers present. They prove themselves to be untrustworthy on a daily basis and people still trust them, or simply ignore the problems of our world. There is such a lack of pride or will to fight for good in this world, and I find it disgusting. We accept how dumbed down our population is, and find how blatantly the government keeps people from receiving quality education, or how media and teachers keep important information from people necessary to make an informed and proper decision.
Many are imprisoned in this country physically, but even more are imprisoned mentally. I'm asked so many times "What can I do about it?" "What are you going to do about it" when it comes to the issues I raise. I do my part, I read up on what goes on, I pay attention to what people on television are actually saying. I know what spin is, I know who pays who, who owns parts of what business, I know history, I find statistics, I seek the truth. I understand the motives of businessmen, congressmen, and others, and I realize too many coincidences mean there is no coincidence at all. I'm not special or made different than anyone else, I'm not privileged, I'm just paying attention, trying to find what's right in this world, and what is wrong with my country, if everyone did this everything would be right in this world and nothing would be wrong in the country. You only live once, put in some shred of effort to be the best possible you.
"Educate yourself, make your world view bigger, visualize wealth and put yourself in the picture" -KRS ONE
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Tonight I Stand in The Face of History
Tonight may be the last election I witness in American history. People in this country are sick, tired, and poor. The people of this country proved to me tonight they are angry with something in government that cannot be defined by Democrat or Republican. They are angry with a broken system that has disenfranchised them.
I just witnessed national news call Idaho’s Governor race after one-hundred votes. The editors were quick to pull the number from the screen, replacing it with a checkmark graphic next to the projected winner. I saw South Carolina elect a Governor to run their state, with little over twenty-five percent of the population’s vote. My state of Ohio elected it’s Governor with around 30% of the population voting, this is a recurring theme in every state tonight.
Tonight I saw sixty congressional seats and House Majority go to the Republicans two short years after the media claimed the Republican Party died a horrible death, at the hands of a new Democratic wave led by Obama.
Two years after “change” swept the country, “change” has swept through once again.
George Bush exposed corruption in government through his incompetence. I thought to myself many times, “this guy can’t be in charge, someone else has to be making these decisions.” Because of this, I consider George W. Bush the best president of modern times because of his transparency. It didn’t show in policy, but it showed through his horribly written speeches, idiotic debates, and hesitance to respond to anything the American public told him. George W. Bush was incompetent and the worst actor in U.S. Presidential history, and because of this I beame more informed and involved in the way my country works. George Bush woke a sleeping giant with his blunders. This government has led us astray long before George W. Bush, but Bush made government corruption blatant, he brought it to the forefront of our minds.
It was clear after Iraq that Bush’s agenda was not an agenda of the people. It was obvious his agenda was not one of peace or prosperity. We destroyed a surplus and sunk our country through out of control spending led by Republicans. We went into two unjust and pre-emptive wars, incited by an isolated terror attack, and did so led by Republicans.
George Bush won his first presidency without the popular vote, and won a second term through roused patriotism found in wartime. During this time the First Amendment was weakened through the implementation of “Free Speech Zones” repressing the right of assembly. Personal freedoms were fringed upon through the “Patriot Act” as the public’s phones, computers, and privacy could be monitored by the government and police without a warrant. During this time “Habeas Corpus” was damaged by the exposing of water-boarding by the CIA and military.
Dress the facts up in any garb of nationalism you want, but our nation became one of pre-emptive war, where torture tactics became Standard Operating Procedure, and many people around the world were detained, and in some cases executed without any due process of law. We witnessed gay citizens denied their right to happiness and marriage because of religious beliefs that defined marriage, in a country where our forefathers stated a forced separation of church and state.
President George W. Bush’s approval average was forty-nine percent, the highest approval average of any president monitored was John F. Kennedy at seventy percent, who was assassinated. The highest approval point of Kennedy was 83%, Bush’s highest was 90% after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, pushing him into a second term. There is a large shroud of doubt surrounding Kennedy’s assassination, as well as there is surrounding the attacks of 9/11 and the “War on Terror”. Both times the term “conspiracy theory” is tossed around loosely at those who have legitimate questions about details, I believe politicians and “powers that be” change policy and focus on approval ratings more than the people do.
President Obama came into an America angered by politics, after being led by leaders into two blundered wars. John McCain held a lot of support as a moderate Republican who opposed Bush in many of his policies, he touted a respectable service record both in the military and in his public service. According to polls McCain and Obama were very close, until McCain chose the globally ignorant and unseasoned Sarah Palin as his running mate. I thought to myself, “there is no way he is making these campaign decisions" A feeling similar to the feelings I held of the Bush administration. McCain later confirmed Palin was not his decision, and neither were the uncharacteristically brutal and right-wing tactics of his campaign. The man running for president was told what to do by someone else, and it wrecked his campaign.
Obama won the presidency on campaign promises of “change”, the ending of Bush’s wars and the repealing of his policies. Patriot Act and Free Speech Zones were never touched. Troops pulled offensive operations from Iraq but still thousands of troops are in Iraq monitoring the country. The War in Afghanistan has escalated along with drone attacks inside Pakistan borders. Before Bush left office he pushed through a one-hundred and seventy billion dollar stimulus and the printing of more money which pushed inflation of U.S. currency. Obama’s bailout is said to possibly cost upward of three trillion dollars by it’s end. The bailout ensured the upholding of debts held by citizens after the banks proceeded with predatory lending and increases in interest rates of loans. Many have realized foreign policy and domestic policy lacks major change since Obama’s election. It almost seems as if once elected, someone else dictated to Obama what to do My guess is that before he ever sat in the oval office, a large stack of classified briefing papers waited on his desk. The same papers that await every U.S. president. I don’t know what they are or what they say, and that is why I don’t visually age a decade in less than four years.
Many believed if Obama was not elected and failed Bush policies continued under a Republican leader, that Liberals would revolt, weary of the election process and it’s fairness, the effectiveness of ballot counting machines, and the continuation of unpopular American policies.
In a short time President Obama dropped from the public’s choice for change to a forty-seven percent approval rating. Talks of tax increases on a strangling public proved to be the final straw, as Republicans won back a majority after all the damage the party and Bush caused. National unemployment is the highest since The Great Depression. After the housing bubble burst, people are not only losing their jobs, but they are losing their homes, all because of contracts being held over their heads by the very banks their tax-dollars helped bail out. The Democrats botched their chance to fix what ails the country. I wouldn’t expect anything else, as my time in politics has only taught me someone is always on a phone pulling strings, regardless of what party or how powerful the person.
Over the past thirty years we have watched our economic powerhouse collapse. While we continue to drive inflation, print money, and bail out predatory lenders, our factories and unionized jobs have been shipped overseas to underpaid serfs without unionization in countries that take advantage of unfair trade practices. Corporations in our country have effectively bankrupted our people and dissolved their livlihoods while simultaneously enslaving working populations of third world countries globally. Most goods purchased are not manufactured in America, and all goods only cost the producer a miniscule fraction of what they cost the customer. Our once proud economy has become a glorified pyramid scheme, where people like Bernie Madoff are simply a product of their environment. Cheap products sold by untrustworthy men, created to break so they are bought once again. Money decides our careers, our decisions, often our relationships, it also dictates American politics, and has done so well before George Bush took office.
I reflect on this all tonight after rich Republicans take power from rich Democrats in the legislature. The legislature has routinely failed the country and working-class for well over a decade, regardless of which party controlled the Presidency, Congress, or Senate. I look at a public, where the majority does not even take to the ballot. The voting population and minority swings itself on political talking points, repeated through the media and political commercials purchased by the rich politicians and parties.
During 2008 all I heard in any Democratic commercials was the word “change”, in 2010 all I have heard from Republicans was the word “spending”. Once again I did not hear one detailed plan of how anything will happen, why it will happen or when. I did not see one debate where two educated people identified problems and gave specifics to how they would solve them. I saw politics as usual, we turn one way to be let down, then turn the other way in desperation only to again be let down. We will see this trend again only a few short months into this Republican House majority. This is how an oligarchy that is out of touch with the public operates. It takes and absorbs without intentions of ever giving back.
In 2012 the voting minority will either be so tired of the Republican House that they will narrowly vote Obama in for a second term, or they will be so tired of Obama that he will lose the presidency to whatever choice the Republican Party brings forth. If Obama wins, the country will be even further divided and agitated by the end of his presidency. If the Republican Party wins the Presidency and holds on to a majority of the House the inevitable will happen, political chaos. I can’t claim to know when this will happen but I strongly believe it will happen in the next five years. This political unrest has already begun in countries all over the world such as Greece, and I believe the unrest will spread as does the failure of a global economy created and run by corporate leaders and politicians who can never gain enough money or power to satisfy their greed.
Most of the population recognizes early on they will never be President, but now a majority realizes they will never live as citizens respected by their elected officials in the nation their forefathers built. They have long been disenfranchised by two parties controlled by corporate donation money, but now people are losing their homes and their jobs. If these financial trends continue at the pace they have, and the political landscape does not change drastically in the next four years, there will be a revolt.
I fail to say revolution because I believe that would signify a unified and popular mass looking for major reforms to government and policy. I believe we will have a dumbed down and angry mob mentality sweeping the country that has been fueled by government and politics that has mutilated unity in this country through divide and conquer politics. The left and right are angry with government, but also hold a deep hatred for one another, orchestrated by divisive leaders who are not in touch with the American people and the social issues they want resolved. It is just a matter of time before the anger boils over against one another, or the public becomes angry at the same government at the same time.
Most people don’t want this to happen, I am one of those people. But then again, most people don’t vote, they don’t go to rally’s, they don’t scream and demean those with opposing political views. Most people in this country are tolerant of different races, religions, and personal choices, because they have more important things to do than point out others in hatred. The majority is controlled by the minority in elections, a one percent minority controls ninety-nine percent of the country’s wealth. Instead of pulling together for real change and solutions we eat each other while the elite sit back and watch, so high on the pyramid that it doesn’t matter who we elect in this country. They are global, powerful, and out of our political reach.
Tonight I look at a mess created by corrupt politicians on both sides who carelessly affect our everyday lives, running rampant with our finances, destroying our values as a nation. The government decides who can be married, the government OK’d domestic spying, the government OK’d pre-emptive wars and developed imperialism in a country built upon non-interventionist beliefs, the government printed tax dollars to hold its public in debt while destroying the value of the dollar, the government tells the people where to pray and where to protest while the media tells them what to think. After public is told what to think they vote, only to regret their vote once again a few short months.
Tonight I reflect on a broken system and the last peaceful American election I may witness. By 2012 I think the country will either be on the edge of increasing violence, or it will be recognized the election process is so corrupt and broken that I, along with a majority will fail to recognize it as an election at all. While I hope political violence does not spread across the country, I believe it is inevitable. I don’t believe this country will ever be the same again after tonight, I believe anger will hit levels never seen before in my times. It only takes thirty percent to control the other seventy, and it takes way less to cause disturbances or growing violence. Either the people will turn on each other, or the people will turn on their government, at which time the government will strike back hard and repressively. I believed this unrest would be subsided by Obama’s election. After Obama has gone into the midterm elections with such a low approval rating, I believe it’s only a matter of time before things erupt if the economy does not mend.
History has shown lethargy and gridlock in policy when a President’s party is opposite of the legislature’s policy. Based on this, the most hopeful we can be for the future is that things will stay exactly as they are, and I don’t believe most people find that status quo acceptable.
In that time I will keep my beliefs and hope for a better future.
I just witnessed national news call Idaho’s Governor race after one-hundred votes. The editors were quick to pull the number from the screen, replacing it with a checkmark graphic next to the projected winner. I saw South Carolina elect a Governor to run their state, with little over twenty-five percent of the population’s vote. My state of Ohio elected it’s Governor with around 30% of the population voting, this is a recurring theme in every state tonight.
Tonight I saw sixty congressional seats and House Majority go to the Republicans two short years after the media claimed the Republican Party died a horrible death, at the hands of a new Democratic wave led by Obama.
Two years after “change” swept the country, “change” has swept through once again.
George Bush exposed corruption in government through his incompetence. I thought to myself many times, “this guy can’t be in charge, someone else has to be making these decisions.” Because of this, I consider George W. Bush the best president of modern times because of his transparency. It didn’t show in policy, but it showed through his horribly written speeches, idiotic debates, and hesitance to respond to anything the American public told him. George W. Bush was incompetent and the worst actor in U.S. Presidential history, and because of this I beame more informed and involved in the way my country works. George Bush woke a sleeping giant with his blunders. This government has led us astray long before George W. Bush, but Bush made government corruption blatant, he brought it to the forefront of our minds.
It was clear after Iraq that Bush’s agenda was not an agenda of the people. It was obvious his agenda was not one of peace or prosperity. We destroyed a surplus and sunk our country through out of control spending led by Republicans. We went into two unjust and pre-emptive wars, incited by an isolated terror attack, and did so led by Republicans.
George Bush won his first presidency without the popular vote, and won a second term through roused patriotism found in wartime. During this time the First Amendment was weakened through the implementation of “Free Speech Zones” repressing the right of assembly. Personal freedoms were fringed upon through the “Patriot Act” as the public’s phones, computers, and privacy could be monitored by the government and police without a warrant. During this time “Habeas Corpus” was damaged by the exposing of water-boarding by the CIA and military.
Dress the facts up in any garb of nationalism you want, but our nation became one of pre-emptive war, where torture tactics became Standard Operating Procedure, and many people around the world were detained, and in some cases executed without any due process of law. We witnessed gay citizens denied their right to happiness and marriage because of religious beliefs that defined marriage, in a country where our forefathers stated a forced separation of church and state.
President George W. Bush’s approval average was forty-nine percent, the highest approval average of any president monitored was John F. Kennedy at seventy percent, who was assassinated. The highest approval point of Kennedy was 83%, Bush’s highest was 90% after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, pushing him into a second term. There is a large shroud of doubt surrounding Kennedy’s assassination, as well as there is surrounding the attacks of 9/11 and the “War on Terror”. Both times the term “conspiracy theory” is tossed around loosely at those who have legitimate questions about details, I believe politicians and “powers that be” change policy and focus on approval ratings more than the people do.
President Obama came into an America angered by politics, after being led by leaders into two blundered wars. John McCain held a lot of support as a moderate Republican who opposed Bush in many of his policies, he touted a respectable service record both in the military and in his public service. According to polls McCain and Obama were very close, until McCain chose the globally ignorant and unseasoned Sarah Palin as his running mate. I thought to myself, “there is no way he is making these campaign decisions" A feeling similar to the feelings I held of the Bush administration. McCain later confirmed Palin was not his decision, and neither were the uncharacteristically brutal and right-wing tactics of his campaign. The man running for president was told what to do by someone else, and it wrecked his campaign.
Obama won the presidency on campaign promises of “change”, the ending of Bush’s wars and the repealing of his policies. Patriot Act and Free Speech Zones were never touched. Troops pulled offensive operations from Iraq but still thousands of troops are in Iraq monitoring the country. The War in Afghanistan has escalated along with drone attacks inside Pakistan borders. Before Bush left office he pushed through a one-hundred and seventy billion dollar stimulus and the printing of more money which pushed inflation of U.S. currency. Obama’s bailout is said to possibly cost upward of three trillion dollars by it’s end. The bailout ensured the upholding of debts held by citizens after the banks proceeded with predatory lending and increases in interest rates of loans. Many have realized foreign policy and domestic policy lacks major change since Obama’s election. It almost seems as if once elected, someone else dictated to Obama what to do My guess is that before he ever sat in the oval office, a large stack of classified briefing papers waited on his desk. The same papers that await every U.S. president. I don’t know what they are or what they say, and that is why I don’t visually age a decade in less than four years.
Many believed if Obama was not elected and failed Bush policies continued under a Republican leader, that Liberals would revolt, weary of the election process and it’s fairness, the effectiveness of ballot counting machines, and the continuation of unpopular American policies.
In a short time President Obama dropped from the public’s choice for change to a forty-seven percent approval rating. Talks of tax increases on a strangling public proved to be the final straw, as Republicans won back a majority after all the damage the party and Bush caused. National unemployment is the highest since The Great Depression. After the housing bubble burst, people are not only losing their jobs, but they are losing their homes, all because of contracts being held over their heads by the very banks their tax-dollars helped bail out. The Democrats botched their chance to fix what ails the country. I wouldn’t expect anything else, as my time in politics has only taught me someone is always on a phone pulling strings, regardless of what party or how powerful the person.
Over the past thirty years we have watched our economic powerhouse collapse. While we continue to drive inflation, print money, and bail out predatory lenders, our factories and unionized jobs have been shipped overseas to underpaid serfs without unionization in countries that take advantage of unfair trade practices. Corporations in our country have effectively bankrupted our people and dissolved their livlihoods while simultaneously enslaving working populations of third world countries globally. Most goods purchased are not manufactured in America, and all goods only cost the producer a miniscule fraction of what they cost the customer. Our once proud economy has become a glorified pyramid scheme, where people like Bernie Madoff are simply a product of their environment. Cheap products sold by untrustworthy men, created to break so they are bought once again. Money decides our careers, our decisions, often our relationships, it also dictates American politics, and has done so well before George Bush took office.
I reflect on this all tonight after rich Republicans take power from rich Democrats in the legislature. The legislature has routinely failed the country and working-class for well over a decade, regardless of which party controlled the Presidency, Congress, or Senate. I look at a public, where the majority does not even take to the ballot. The voting population and minority swings itself on political talking points, repeated through the media and political commercials purchased by the rich politicians and parties.
During 2008 all I heard in any Democratic commercials was the word “change”, in 2010 all I have heard from Republicans was the word “spending”. Once again I did not hear one detailed plan of how anything will happen, why it will happen or when. I did not see one debate where two educated people identified problems and gave specifics to how they would solve them. I saw politics as usual, we turn one way to be let down, then turn the other way in desperation only to again be let down. We will see this trend again only a few short months into this Republican House majority. This is how an oligarchy that is out of touch with the public operates. It takes and absorbs without intentions of ever giving back.
In 2012 the voting minority will either be so tired of the Republican House that they will narrowly vote Obama in for a second term, or they will be so tired of Obama that he will lose the presidency to whatever choice the Republican Party brings forth. If Obama wins, the country will be even further divided and agitated by the end of his presidency. If the Republican Party wins the Presidency and holds on to a majority of the House the inevitable will happen, political chaos. I can’t claim to know when this will happen but I strongly believe it will happen in the next five years. This political unrest has already begun in countries all over the world such as Greece, and I believe the unrest will spread as does the failure of a global economy created and run by corporate leaders and politicians who can never gain enough money or power to satisfy their greed.
Most of the population recognizes early on they will never be President, but now a majority realizes they will never live as citizens respected by their elected officials in the nation their forefathers built. They have long been disenfranchised by two parties controlled by corporate donation money, but now people are losing their homes and their jobs. If these financial trends continue at the pace they have, and the political landscape does not change drastically in the next four years, there will be a revolt.
I fail to say revolution because I believe that would signify a unified and popular mass looking for major reforms to government and policy. I believe we will have a dumbed down and angry mob mentality sweeping the country that has been fueled by government and politics that has mutilated unity in this country through divide and conquer politics. The left and right are angry with government, but also hold a deep hatred for one another, orchestrated by divisive leaders who are not in touch with the American people and the social issues they want resolved. It is just a matter of time before the anger boils over against one another, or the public becomes angry at the same government at the same time.
Most people don’t want this to happen, I am one of those people. But then again, most people don’t vote, they don’t go to rally’s, they don’t scream and demean those with opposing political views. Most people in this country are tolerant of different races, religions, and personal choices, because they have more important things to do than point out others in hatred. The majority is controlled by the minority in elections, a one percent minority controls ninety-nine percent of the country’s wealth. Instead of pulling together for real change and solutions we eat each other while the elite sit back and watch, so high on the pyramid that it doesn’t matter who we elect in this country. They are global, powerful, and out of our political reach.
Tonight I look at a mess created by corrupt politicians on both sides who carelessly affect our everyday lives, running rampant with our finances, destroying our values as a nation. The government decides who can be married, the government OK’d domestic spying, the government OK’d pre-emptive wars and developed imperialism in a country built upon non-interventionist beliefs, the government printed tax dollars to hold its public in debt while destroying the value of the dollar, the government tells the people where to pray and where to protest while the media tells them what to think. After public is told what to think they vote, only to regret their vote once again a few short months.
Tonight I reflect on a broken system and the last peaceful American election I may witness. By 2012 I think the country will either be on the edge of increasing violence, or it will be recognized the election process is so corrupt and broken that I, along with a majority will fail to recognize it as an election at all. While I hope political violence does not spread across the country, I believe it is inevitable. I don’t believe this country will ever be the same again after tonight, I believe anger will hit levels never seen before in my times. It only takes thirty percent to control the other seventy, and it takes way less to cause disturbances or growing violence. Either the people will turn on each other, or the people will turn on their government, at which time the government will strike back hard and repressively. I believed this unrest would be subsided by Obama’s election. After Obama has gone into the midterm elections with such a low approval rating, I believe it’s only a matter of time before things erupt if the economy does not mend.
History has shown lethargy and gridlock in policy when a President’s party is opposite of the legislature’s policy. Based on this, the most hopeful we can be for the future is that things will stay exactly as they are, and I don’t believe most people find that status quo acceptable.
In that time I will keep my beliefs and hope for a better future.
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