My thoughts on Presidential elections and our Presidential choices
Well, everyone is gearing up for Election season again, and again we are faced with poor choices, poor questions (and faker answers!), and really poor media coverage (that's what happens when all the big media is owned by 5 giant companies. Lots of diversity there! Yup!). A close friend of mine asked me about who I was voting for, and my thoughts in general on the candidates that we have to choose from (well, at least the ones that the Media decides to talk about). Also, today I tried multiple times to give my thoughts on John Edwards little spot on YouTube, but it wouldn't accept my post (I guess a few paragraphs is too much, but it's ok if people want to spit out 1-liners about all Democrats being Commies (I don't like the Dems any, but, are you fucking stupid??)), so, I decided to take my views somewhere else (and perhaps that's good. I don't really feel like swatting away the flame-trolls that lurk amongst YouTube.).
One thing that everyone needs to understand that 99.999999999999999999999% of the time any politician makes it to the preliminaries and has the blessings from their political party to run for prez, is a totally corrupt ass who will sell us out to their corporate (ie, campaign donors) interests in a heart beat. Politicians - as you already know - are fantastic at telling us what we want to hear as elections turn around. John Kerry talked about how every vote would be counted, and what did he do? He threw in the towel amidst numerous instances of reported voter fraud (1, 2)! Kerry was a total puppet; he was never meant to win, he was just there to further the illusion of "democracy" and further pound into people's heads the illusion of this left/right paradigm. There's a spectacular documentary that talks about this entitled American Dictators: Documenting the Staged Election of 2004. Even if you just watch the first 10 minutes, it's a real eye opener.
There are also a few articles pertaining to how this left/right thing is simply a phony paradigm:
Field of Screams: The Real Election Winners and Losers (from the Online Journal)
Meet the New Boss: Same as the Old Boss (from PrisonPlanet.com, by Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones)
Conyers Toes Party Line: No Impeachment (from Infowars.net, by Steve Watson)
Bush Shields Clinton Scandals (from News Max)
Now often, there are candidates who will try to run, and are actually honest (gasp!), but are usually doomed from the start since they run from a 3rd party (like 2004's Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik). There are some exceptions to this, like Republican Congressman Ron Paul who used to run on a Libertarian ticket, but now (obviously) runs as a Republican. Ron Paul is running for president this time around and while I know that he will not reach it to the preliminaries (despite the fact that many call him founding father material), I still support him 100%. Now, another politician that I pro-actively support is Georgia's (now former) Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. While she isn't running for president, she's a phenomenal politician and she's been very active in pursuing things that are in actual interest of the American people (as apposed to the numbers of politicians that voted for the Patriot Act when it wasn't even open to read. Isn't that wonderful? Politicians voted for the Patriot Act even when Bush labeled the entire contents "classified"!). The Democrats that I am aware that are at the fore-front with talking about running for president are largely Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, are terrible choices. Neither hold the interests that are anything but that which benefits the corporations, and none of them talk about (or do anything about) the erosion of our civil liberties, or about how the Federal Reserve is bankrupting us (1, 2), or how we need to get rid of the electronic voting machines... Naturally of course, the big-name Republicans that are running aside from Ron Paul are poor choices as well.
Many times we are faced with two choices: vote third party, or don't vote. If Ron Paul doesn't make it to the end, I won't be voting. I would never vote for someone whom I know is controlled by the corporations, and likewise I wouldn't vote for someone I knew nothing about. I would not be able to live with myself if I were to simply vote for the guy who says most of what I want to hear but doesn't act on it (Dennis Kucinich is a great example of this)
Ask yourself, how many times do you hear these big-name campaign runners talk about preserving AND restoring the Bill of Rights and US Constitution? Sometimes they'll act like they care about this, but you'll never see them actually do something about it. How many have actually tried to appeal the the numerous pieces of Police State legislation (Military Commissions Act, Victory Act, New Freedom Initiative, Patriot Act 1 & 2..)? When will one of them step forward to shut down the Federal Reserve and repeal the 1913 Federal Reserve Act that has been bleeding us dry for nearly 100 years now? When will they make efforts to stop the militarization of the police (how many times have I seen Police with semi-automatic rifles all around NYC? Too many) and restore Posse Commitatus? Certainly if there is a brain amongst our elected officials, why do we still have rampant voter fraud at each election? Why has no one booted our lame-duck president out of office for tearing apart the Bill of Rights and US Constitution? These are the real issues that no one wants to discuss; all we hear about is the war in Iraq and gay marriage and who said what inflammatory comment.. It's absurd. We should expect more from our elected officials, and certainly demand it daily.
It doesn't matter who is voted for, the person that wins will be no different than what we have now.
One thing that everyone needs to understand that 99.999999999999999999999% of the time any politician makes it to the preliminaries and has the blessings from their political party to run for prez, is a totally corrupt ass who will sell us out to their corporate (ie, campaign donors) interests in a heart beat. Politicians - as you already know - are fantastic at telling us what we want to hear as elections turn around. John Kerry talked about how every vote would be counted, and what did he do? He threw in the towel amidst numerous instances of reported voter fraud (1, 2)! Kerry was a total puppet; he was never meant to win, he was just there to further the illusion of "democracy" and further pound into people's heads the illusion of this left/right paradigm. There's a spectacular documentary that talks about this entitled American Dictators: Documenting the Staged Election of 2004. Even if you just watch the first 10 minutes, it's a real eye opener.
There are also a few articles pertaining to how this left/right thing is simply a phony paradigm:
Field of Screams: The Real Election Winners and Losers (from the Online Journal)
Meet the New Boss: Same as the Old Boss (from PrisonPlanet.com, by Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones)
Conyers Toes Party Line: No Impeachment (from Infowars.net, by Steve Watson)
Bush Shields Clinton Scandals (from News Max)
Now often, there are candidates who will try to run, and are actually honest (gasp!), but are usually doomed from the start since they run from a 3rd party (like 2004's Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik). There are some exceptions to this, like Republican Congressman Ron Paul who used to run on a Libertarian ticket, but now (obviously) runs as a Republican. Ron Paul is running for president this time around and while I know that he will not reach it to the preliminaries (despite the fact that many call him founding father material), I still support him 100%. Now, another politician that I pro-actively support is Georgia's (now former) Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. While she isn't running for president, she's a phenomenal politician and she's been very active in pursuing things that are in actual interest of the American people (as apposed to the numbers of politicians that voted for the Patriot Act when it wasn't even open to read. Isn't that wonderful? Politicians voted for the Patriot Act even when Bush labeled the entire contents "classified"!). The Democrats that I am aware that are at the fore-front with talking about running for president are largely Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, are terrible choices. Neither hold the interests that are anything but that which benefits the corporations, and none of them talk about (or do anything about) the erosion of our civil liberties, or about how the Federal Reserve is bankrupting us (1, 2), or how we need to get rid of the electronic voting machines... Naturally of course, the big-name Republicans that are running aside from Ron Paul are poor choices as well.
Many times we are faced with two choices: vote third party, or don't vote. If Ron Paul doesn't make it to the end, I won't be voting. I would never vote for someone whom I know is controlled by the corporations, and likewise I wouldn't vote for someone I knew nothing about. I would not be able to live with myself if I were to simply vote for the guy who says most of what I want to hear but doesn't act on it (Dennis Kucinich is a great example of this)
Ask yourself, how many times do you hear these big-name campaign runners talk about preserving AND restoring the Bill of Rights and US Constitution? Sometimes they'll act like they care about this, but you'll never see them actually do something about it. How many have actually tried to appeal the the numerous pieces of Police State legislation (Military Commissions Act, Victory Act, New Freedom Initiative, Patriot Act 1 & 2..)? When will one of them step forward to shut down the Federal Reserve and repeal the 1913 Federal Reserve Act that has been bleeding us dry for nearly 100 years now? When will they make efforts to stop the militarization of the police (how many times have I seen Police with semi-automatic rifles all around NYC? Too many) and restore Posse Commitatus? Certainly if there is a brain amongst our elected officials, why do we still have rampant voter fraud at each election? Why has no one booted our lame-duck president out of office for tearing apart the Bill of Rights and US Constitution? These are the real issues that no one wants to discuss; all we hear about is the war in Iraq and gay marriage and who said what inflammatory comment.. It's absurd. We should expect more from our elected officials, and certainly demand it daily.
It doesn't matter who is voted for, the person that wins will be no different than what we have now.
posted by Phracktivist at 2:12 PM
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