OK, so I seem to do a lot of my real thinking late at night or early in the morning. It probably has something to do with the quiet, the lack of activity and stimulation. My phone's not ringing, my rommate's asleep. Hell, even my cat is curled up, unconcious on the couch. So typically, what I do at this time of night is replay the previous days events and conversations in my mind. One particular conversation seems to stand out from yesterday. I can't remember what sparked the conversation, or even who, specifically, I was talking to, but What I've come to realise in the last few months is just how broken the system really is. Now, I used to be one of those flag-waving patriotic god-bless-america-she-can-do-no-wrong types. More so after the events of 9/11. But, as some of you know, I've undergone a kind of quest to learn and absorb as much information and knowledge as possible. All this new information I've discovered has changed my point of view on quite a few issues. One of which being our government. What I've realised is, the United States government, as it stands today, is innefectual. Republican, Democrat, it doesn't matter. They're really one and the same. The only difference between the two parties is the dogma they dutifully recite to the voters. If you think about it, what change has really taken place in this country in the last decade? What improvements have been made? I'll tell you why there hasn't been any substantial change (at least not for the better.) Your elected "representatives" do not represent you. They do not represent your best interest. Think about it. What's the most important thing to any elected official? Reelection. Keeping their jobs, in other words. And what, in this country, is the most important part of any election? Funding! You can't run an election without adequate funding. It costs millions of dollars to run for public office in this country. And where does this money come from? Well, sure, some of it comes from that little box on your tax form that you can check if you want to contribute a dolloar, and some comes from that little old lady down the street who sends ten dollars to the legislative candidate who promises better social security benefits. But a majority of funding comes from corporations and special interest groups. So what are the elected officials going to do? Well, cater to the corporations, of course. Sure, when they get on tv they spout off about "creating jobs" and "saving social security" and all that nonsense, but when they are actually in office, actually sitting at that big desk we all paid for, they do the best they can to keep the corporations happy. They continue to allow the exportation of jobs, they allow businesses to abuse workers rights for the sake of a higher profit margin, they basically do nothing to rock the boat. I mean, hell, if they actually DO something, it might threaten funding for their reelection bid next year. The problem as I see it is, public office has become a very lucrative job. It pays well, makes you somewhat of a celebrity, and, apparently, elevates you to a status above the law. You don't have to work too hard, you get to vote on your own salary... There's too many benefits to being a polititian, therefore, people in that position will do whatever they can to hold on to it. Even if that means betraying the trust of the voters who put them there. So, you may say, as soon as people see what's going on, they will be outraged and vote that bastard out of office, right? Well, not exactly. People in this country have been conditioned to trust the media pretty much unconditionally. If the tv tells them everything's ok, then everything's ok. So political corruption comes to light, media pundits put a spin on it, and it all seems ok in the end. Meanwhile, illegal immigrants are flooding into this country at an alarming rate, bringing their culture of crime with them. Blacks are destroying our communities with their hip-hop culture that glorifies violence, drugs, and mysoginy. Jobs are FLYING overseas, leaving us here in the US unemployed but with access to chep (monetary and quality) mass-produced goods sold by, you guessed it, the big corporations that really control this country. I never thought I would say this. If you had asked me a year ago, I would have scoffed at the idea. But our system is so corrupt, so broken, that it is not repairable through the voting boots. What will voting do? We are told who are candidates will be by the political parties who give us limited options. And you can bet the options they do give us were carefully selected based on how they will appeal to the big-money corporations. No, voting will not solve anything at this point in the game. I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Is it really coming to that? Have we been complacent and apathetic so long that our government is corrupt beyond repair, and the only solution is it's overthrow and replacement?
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