the "close" election this year begets scrutiny, considering that the american public considers only having two candidates a contest. why do we only have to choose between a blue tie and a red tie while ignoring any other legitimate tie? the two party system does not effectively serve our collective interests. it thrives on obtuse duality and inane dialogue.
you could claim that this inanity exists because over $2.00 billion will be spent during this election cycle; however, ask yourself the following questions:
- where else could we spend this money other than trying to pad our own exclusionary interests by using taxation as a weapon of mass enrichment and social control to keep people in check?
- why create and support an impolite zero-sum game intended to divide and conquer demographics with rigged political and socioeconomic competition?
- who will tear down the broken political, social, and economic system and buck up to its enforcers by playing and subverting the system's bankrupt values?
- how will we change our hyper-competitive, greedy mindset?
- when does change matter? [almost sounds like a slogan!]
- what impact can you make on improving conditions for the common good?
my over-privileged friend considers voting for gary johnson, the libertarian candidate, a vote for president obama. he gravely underestimates the libertarian party and its believers and also slanders the american voting process. who says that you must only vote on two choices? why create anxiety that your vote is a wasted vote? talk about scripted psychological abuse. thank you news outlets and its democratic and republican dogmatic interests.
he remains uninformed and watches entirely too much fox news inebriated with an ax to grind. his right-wing views obscure the mayhem behind our failed palestinian occupation policy in israel and our imperial economic mercantilism. america should unwind its predatory foreign policy over the next 200 years, not only over the next 4 years. we cannot stop too soon, but why continue feeding the fire elsewhere, such as the shift from the middle east to the pacific rim?
my family socioeconomic experience centered around medicine, education, and upper middle class privilege; however, my folks did not come from privilege, and my father immigrated from mexico. the democratic party remained my personal choice for many years. our hard working merchant class values, our social conscience, our collective immigration mindset, and our episcopal faith steered me away from the republican party and its unequal social control, its behavioral dogma, its corrupt regulatory policies, and its xenophobia.
for the record, the democratic party has abandoned my own values. it continues our country's ill-fated drug war while continuing a brutal and senseless middle eastern policy. the drum wars beating towards pacific rim military escapades will only end in more bloodshed and death. military contractors and money center speculators will profit from this engagement, not moral people.
let us think critically about military conflict with china. seeing goosestepping chinese does not scare me; on the contrary, nationalistic pride swells in me, guttural hatred courses through my veins, and my body gets tingly with goosebumps. they would truly meet the might of the american militia, as like minded heroes gather in the rockies, the appalachians, and the texas hill country. why create that carnage?
my mother's austrian forefathers put the french to the bayonet at waterloo and fought valiantly in both 20th century world wars; more recently, my father's mexican grandparents joined our northern chihuahuan brethren against plutocratic tyranny during the mexican revolution. fighting courses through my veins and does not need to come out unnecessarily.
do not recommend a military campaign...we would not fight the chinese in this engagement over 4 years. my great-great-great grandchildren will continue the bloodshed if we truly engage with china, much less iran, militarily. creating that reality and profiting from death will always remain immoral; moreover, we would fight civilizations dating back to the time period when humans began streaming into river valleys 10,000 years ago. the institutional memory lasts many centuries in those worlds.
enjoy the fact that people can vote; more importantly, demand more choices than two regarding our american domestic and foreign policy. we can achieve much but cannot do much with a cleaved, negative duality unwilling to cooperate for the common good.
just walk away and disengage from the uninformed plutocrat...
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