The EXEGETIST: A Library Of Independent Political Thought. By: Jack H. Dawsey

In Modern America, Do Elections Matter?

By: Jack Dawsey

Political elections come and go.  Soon, another cycle will follow and many political operatives will go bonkers over “their” candidate.  To hear the radio and television ads, one will think Obama is on the ballot.  They’ll demand for you to vote Republican.  Others will extol Obama’s virtue, and recommend to you to vote Democrat.  Neither will be true.  For example, the most recent elections in Virginia, New Jersey and the House of Representative candidate in New York prove it.  What really occurred in those states is true in all elections.  In the case of Virginia and New Jersey, for example, the majority of Democrats was not enthused about their candidate and did not turn out.  The Republicans won.  In the New York House race, the people simply rejected the likes of Conservative Doug Hoffman, and his supporting cast of Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sara Palin.  But in modern America, do elections really matter with respect to the betterment of, “We, the people?”

There is such a thing in the political world as gerrymandering or redistricting.  As we speak gerrymandering is occurring, and the politicians in power are redistricting their power base to benefit their personal need, and not yours.  By the way, the Republicans did it when they were in power.  In modern America, there is no difference between the Dum’o’rats and the Re’pub’a’thugs -as I affectionally call them.  They are merely two different sides of the same One-Eyed-Jack.  [Have you ever noticed that you can only see one eye of the Jack of Spades in a deck of cards?]  The Jack is like your typical Republican and Democrat politician.  You only see one side of them at a time. 

Whether Obama or McCain, or Bush or Gore, they are controlled.  Corporate and Wall Street Banksters always win in political elections because they control the flow of money.   If that hasn’t been made clear in the most recent elections in this country, another ton of evidence will not convince.  And Obama is a classic example.  Where is the hope and meaningful change he promised?  Have the troops departed Iraq and Afghanistan?  Or, why can’t real and meaningful healthcare reform pass?  And look who is serving in positions of power in his Administration.  They are Clinton retreads and people from Goldman-Sachs.

Now with respect to the accusations that Obama is ushering in socialism, I laugh when Republicans come unglued about that.  They decry Obama’s socialism, but gave a wink and a nod when their party spent YOUR money like a drunken sailor.  They didn’t quibble when their party authorized an unpaid $1.3 trillion dollar program for Medicare Part D.  They didn’t say ‘boo’ when their party executed an $850 billion bailout for banks that they said were: “to big to fail.”  They didn’t even whimper when their party spent in excess of $2.0 trillion dollars to their Military Industrial Complex and no bid contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan for privately owned contractors.  Nor did their lap-dog news channel and talking heads on the FOX NETWORK protest as Republicans spent the $1.6 trillion dollar budget surplus they inherited in 2000.

I laugh when the vociferous in the party of NO say they oppose socialism and government spending, but gladly drink water from a county water system.  I laugh when the party of No say they oppose more government, but don’t object to driving their vehicles on the state and federal highway system.  I laugh when they say they oppose socialism, but don’t refuse the services offered by their local fire, police, and EMS departments.  And I’m waiting for those who oppose more government involvement in healthcare to refuse Medicare.  I’m waiting for them to ask their aging grandmother, (if on Medicaid for example), to refuse that socialistic program.  I’m waiting too for those who oppose (socialism) to refuse their monthly social security checks.   And maybe someone should ask them to stop buying meat at their local supermarket because it was inspected by some socialist, USDA certified, government food inspector.  On second thought, they should just GET A LIFE!

And finally, one more comment with respect to the debate about real and meaningful health care.  How can other civilized nations manage to provide basic healthcare to their people, but we can’t?  And consider this.  If we concluded the Iraq and Afghanistan war (by the way a war that was never officially declared by Congress which the U.S. Constitution demands), and if that money was used to improve the lives of our citizens, maybe all Americans could benefit.  But that won’t happen.  While I do expect some form of healthcare reform bill will pass the Congress, it will be laden with loopholes so that the average American will not be served from it.

As long as the “robber-class” rules America and we, the “robbed” allow elections to have no meaningful results, we get what we pay for.  As long as the Exxon-Mobil’s, Halliburton’s, and Blackwater/Xe, and Kellogg, Brown & Root, and the Military Industrial Complex control America’s political process, we ought not to expect positive change.  Frankly, as long as “We, the people…” endorse the existing election process, we should expect nothing short of home foreclosures, job losses, more bank bailouts, and stimulus programs to AIG, Goldman-Sachs and other Wall Street Banksters.

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