Are you sick of them yet?

A classic tirade from the Political Party Pooper on the war being waged against the people of the United States by the Republican and Democratic parties:
So what is this real battle I speak of? It’s the battle of real America against the political class.  It’s the battle that no one in our media is talking about. . . . The real battle is just beginning, and the “win” is to destroy the power that the two major parties have over America.  Unless you are willing that this should occur, you will forever be saddled with representation from One Democrat and One Republican, and those two “people” are busy entertaining the likes of union bosses and David Koch.  They don’t have time to do your business; all of their time is spent raising funds for their next election, and paying back their major donors. . . .

It wasn’t you or me who sold American workers out to special interests when NAFTA and many other Free Trade agreements started sending American jobs and wealth to foreigners.  That was the Democrat and the Republican response to their donors demands for cheaper labor under the guise of “global competition”.  It wasn’t you or I who demanded that corporations and unions be treated like natural citizens so that they could donate unlimited amounts of cash and resources to the one Republican and the one Democrat seeking election.  It wasn’t you or I who fought for banks too big to fail; that was the doing of the one democrat and the one Republican in Washington.  It wasn’t you or I who then bailed those banks out because they couldn’t control themselves any better than a gaggle of teenage girls in a candy store.  It was a Democrat and a Republican who bailed them out, using our money!  All we got was massive unemployment, and platitudes from the two political parties.
Are you sick of them yet? Have you had enough?  Do you feel that over the last twenty years, you’ve been well represented?  Do you believe that when you go to the polls, you are making a real choice?  How can you be, when your choice consists of one Republican, and one Democrat, and every American knows exactly how every one of those elected will vote on every issue; namely in lock step with every one in his party?  Is that really representation of the American people, or is it rather representation of a political party and its agenda?
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1 comment:

DLW said...

kleptocracy sucks.

But all modern democracies have been unstable mixes of popular democracy and kleptocracy...

But does it follow that if we got better parties/politicians into power that it'd be better? I don't believe it does. What we can seek after are a better system of checks and balances so that our political duopoly is contested. This would be easier to achieve if we picked our battles more carefully with the two major parties...

 
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