Mike Gravel on CNN.
Sentiment has no place in American politics. The welfare and interest of the American people are too important to be driven by sentiment, professional liars and "popular news coverage." Unfortunately, over the years, substance has taken a back seat to style, oompha-loomphas and spin doctors. The needs of the People have gone unheeded by these self-absorbed, shameless, professional politicians silently slipping the special interest-corporate agenda up the public wazoo.
January 20th, 1989. That's the day George Herbert Walker Bush became President of the United States. Since that day, America has remained under the hand of the ruling corporate elite.
1989-1993: Bush Sr.
1993-2000: Clinton (male)
2000-2009: Bush Jr.
2009-2017: Clinton (female)
If Hillary becomes President and remains in office until 2017, America will have lived under elite corporate rule for nearly thirty years! THIRTY YEARS! THREE DECADES!
And that's three decades of special interest-corporate agenda instead of government for and by the American people.
Thirty years of:
- white, conservative, male control of our media;
- illegal wars;
- personal income tax;
- no balanced budget ever - including under Clinton; see,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzMQgpGn9To- no universal healthcare;
- no fully-paid college tuition for each high-school graduate;
- no border control;
- illegal immigration;
- outsourcing of American jobs;
- no living wage;
- no transparency or accountability in government;
- funding and arming Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine;
- no campaign finance reform;
- AIPAC control of Congress;
- lobbyist domination;
- U.S. military-industrial complex welfare;
Who believes Hillary Clinton or Barak Obama is going to change these facts of government and politics?
These professional politicians are enablers, perpetuators and agents of the special interest-corporate agenda dictating the course of American politics and government. Professional politicians are the enemy of American democracy and the average American.
We need to stop electing professional politicians to office. Sentiment should not be the basis for electing politicians.
This idea that government is best run by "elder statesmen" and "accomplished public servants" is garbage that needs to be taken to the dump for good. Government should be run by ordinary Americans. We'd be better off selecting Congress by random mail, ala' "jury duty" than the current system and our current crooked Congress. I recall Jay Leno questioning Jesse Ventura about Ventura's call for "one-term only" in politics: Leno asked, "Don't you need to be in office a few terms to become familiar with the system to better serve the people?" Jesse replied, "Listen, if you don't know who the bad guys are after a couple of months, you have no business in government."
My point is we've got to STOP allowing sentiment and the media from determining who are the viable candidates for public office. We need ordinary people in elected office and this requires serious campaign finance reform. We've got to institute public funding of U.S. campaigns and end this special interest-corporate domination of our American democracy. We've got to trust ourselves to run our own government. We've got to ditch this idea that only professional politicians can run our government and run it better than ordinary Americans. The diametric opposite is true: Congress and the White House would be better run by ordinary Americans who aren't named "Bush" or "Clinton." We've got to stop electing rich bastards to public office! Let's start electing ordinary people to public office and STOP electing the corporate ruling elite to the highest offices in the land.
We need to STOP supporting politicians and START supporting an agenda - just like the special interests and big corporations have been doing for decades now; those corporations don't care which professional politician is "elected" to office, since all those professional politicians are financed by special interest and big corporations and do enforce and represent the special interest-corporate agenda.
We The People need to support a platform - the "People's Platform," or whatever you want to call it. The People's agenda.
We The People need to come together to determine the People's Agenda and start supporting and electing ordinary people to office who promise and pledge to support and fight for the will and agenda of the People. We've got to stop putting the cart in front of the horse and demand candidates sign a public pledge to support and fight for the planks of the People's Platform. I'm sick and tired of professional politicians treating high public office as a "career move" and their own personal "self-improvement program."
Here's my version of "The People's Platform," or whatever you want to call it:
http://www.roncorvus.com/peoplesplatform.htmOne thing is for sure, if We The People don't start electing ordinary people to public office, We The People will continue to suffer and toil under the ruling class elite; and it only gets worse from here. In fact, the ONLY WAY we're going to reverse this mess is by electing ordinary Americans to Congress and the White House. Don't let the media tell you who to vote for; don't let the media tell you the only viable candidates are who the media says are viable candidates. In fact, it's time for third party candidates to be elected to office, since electing a Democrat or Republican to office will guarantee more of the same. Next election, please vote for an ordinary American who is NOT running as a Democrat or Republican. It's high time to give third party candidates a chance. Enough of the two-party special interest-corporate monopoly!!! Vote your conscious and your future: support and vote third party candidates all the way!!!
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