The real deal with politics.

One thing that's great about being alive is having the right to think how we want. If we are wrong, then nature has its way of correcting us. Granted, this site is expressly for the truth seekers among us, I concede that there is some room for dissent, alternative viewpoints, etc. Debate can be healthy and productive. Yet, it is also critical to point out ignorance.

Plainly and simply, the dominant partisan politics in this country are run by dollars and nonsense. Any politician who rises to the top ranks of this duopolistic system does so at the pleasure of those who hold the purse strings. The media has made this abundantly clear in their constant restatement of how much money each candidate has raised in their campaign for the presidency.

The focus of many a campaign discussion is on the amount of money raised and who contributes the most. Yet, there is no serious, solution-focused discussion about the real issues that affect daily living for most people, beyond superficial rhetoric and the relentless parroting of idiot-friendly soundbytes. The fact is that the solvency of our nation is dwindling...the purchasing power of our dollar is plummeting...resources are being squandered...the air we breathe, the soil we till, and the waterways which are the lifeblood of our planet are being poisoned and people are dying from it...our government continues to flex our geopolitical muscle in this war based on false pretense...those in power maintain a chokehold on the global service and production oligopoly that exists under the guise of a free market economy.

We see these people, these talking heads, the news anchors, the political pundits, the presidential candidates and their campaign managers -- they move their lips and talk the talk, like wooden dummies on the knees of their ventriloquist masters, but when will we ever see real action come from these people? The candidates and their party bosses will pay hundreds of millions of dollars for air time and fatten the wallets of their media-mogul puppetmasters as a sign of loyalty. They will be graded on how much money they can pony up. Yes, this well-oiled machine requires a constant flow of capital to keep its audience transfixed, waiting to see what will happen next. I suppose we have but ourselves to blame as we feed the ugly beast with the crumbs from our own pockets. Yet, behind the scenes and within the periphery of our narrowly focused attention span, the human race begins the process of spiritual starvation as our precious resources are given over to the machine as it builds its factories, up-ends local sustainable economies, enslaves and exploits local citizenry, and creates a system that will force the working class of the world into a global corporate gulag.

For this coming election, it is incumbent upon the American people to vote their choice, not what the media outlets would choose for them. But in the end, it doesn't matter who stands at the pulpit; each and everyone of us our the leaders of our own domain of choices. Use your brain, know the facts, and vote with your actions. If enough of us could adopt this simple shift of Weltanschauung, there's no reason we could not build a better system for ourselves from the ground up. But so long as the media outlets have the hearts and minds of the American masses trapped inside the idiot-box, we really are doomed...no doubt about it.

Need I say more?

J