America has always been a nation of dreamers but in this century, it’s become a living nightmare to be an American. Nothing is as it seems and now it has become a national past time to try to find out just what is behind this that and the other thing. This becomes the debate and not issues that need to be resolved for the good of the nation.
The worst part of the nightmare is that it is now very real to us that it takes a lot of money to become President and either you use yor own hard won millions or someone else’s. If you are using your own millions, then it is important to learn just how legally they were garnered (eg. Romney). If you use someone else’s money, be aware you will be queried about from whom you got them and if that person or enterprise was legal (eg. Obama). Either way, time and energy is spent on what is behind what we are electing and not that person we will be electing.
This is clearly a system that needs to be changed but how, short of revolution, will the power brokers give over their power and let Americans raise up and vote for people who are truly honest and deserving who are financed on an equal footing with other candidates? Not bloody likely. But in order for us to have true democracy, that is what it will take.
This should be the central issue to this and every other election until this unholy nightmare is ended. But is there danger in a system in which literally anyone could become President? Of course. It could bring into high office someone with ideas that are completely undemocratic, not based on Constitutional law, and otherwise unrecognizable beliefs to those of us who hold ourselves to be the true inheritors of the American tradition. It is this fact and not the fact that there might be criminals behind candidates that is the real road block to true freedom of choice in our election.
The trouble with democracy is that it is not a guarantee of anything and it can usher in something completely popular but truly oppressive. We have been skirting this issue as we watch Europe being overcome by the Muslim millions who have immigrated there by taking advantage of the vote and other tools of the republic. It is something we don’t mention since we have had to sit back and watch Libya and other countries we have helped turn to Sharia law.
No, democracy is no longer our great advantage. Protection of the status quo by less than democratic means seems to be the method du jour to protect the American way. Welcome to the end of the road. Our founders never fully realized a multicultural society in which what they might abhor could be easily voted into being. No wonder few bother to go out to vote.
The Morb
January 23, 2012
Well put ! …
samhenry
January 23, 2012
Thank you my Morb. Good to see you per usual.
roblorinov
January 24, 2012
The current system has better racket going than Mafia could ever dream of. We are now ruled over by a global cartel of criminals known as government officials and global bankers who are meeting right now in Switzerland to set our future course. And the call of the day from them is that democracy and capitalism no longer work! No they do not when criminals rule. Soros is one of the people going to Davos to this meeting. I just read interview in which he gets excited about street riots coming to America and he says Occupy Movement will now get violent and there will be great government clamp down on freedoms. It is on Newsweek. He is a wolf trying to appear as a sheep!
Democracy brings responsibility of the citizen. If the citizen takes no responsibility then democracy does not work. We have not take such responsibility but have chosen to close our eyes and turn other way. Now we are all about to pay a great price for our lack of vigilance in this nation.
DarcsFalcon
January 25, 2012
I think the money thing really started getting out of hand in the television age, with candidates buying air time. Before that, it was the much less expensive newspaper ads, and radio spots. Something really does need to be done about that.
I had to chuckle though at this sentence, Sam:
“It could bring into high office someone with ideas that are completely undemocratic, not based on Constitutional law, and otherwise unrecognizable beliefs to those of us who hold ourselves to be the true inheritors of the American tradition.”
My thinking was: “You mean like what happened in 2008?”
I’ll vote for you, Sam.
*hugs*
samhenry
January 25, 2012
I might even run except that they would pull up so much poop on me the dogs and I would be embarrassed.
James Crawford
January 28, 2012
There were some banks that were victims in the Mortgage meltdown and other banks that were eager perpetrators in the fraudulent relaxation of lending standards. Among the worst banks is Goldman Sachs which has been bailed out repeatedly. Now we find that these criminals are bankrolling RINO Romney’s campaign.
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/romney-goldman-sachs-donor/2012/01/27/id/425780?s=al&promo_code=E0D4-1
Gingrich is obviously a severely flawed candidate. However; his conservative credentials from the Reagan era then the Contract with America are impressive. While I still dream of Governor Palin reconsidering, if she chooses to support Gingrich then so will I.
James Crawford
January 30, 2012
The trust of Romney’s character is in how he and his surrogates abuse their power and influence to destroy their rivals within the Republican party. Below is a story on how Romney’s henchmen have redistricted Representative Allen West out of his Congressional seat.
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2012/01/30/no_room_for_allen_west_or_you_in_romneys_gop/page/full/
It stinks so bad that I might be unable to hold my nose to vote for Romney. Gingrich has his own baggage, but Governor Palin got it right when she suggested that “the math is the math” and that we should vote for Gingrich just to prolong the primary voting.
samhenry
January 31, 2012
As a friend of mine said recently, perhaps the best outcome would be a brokered convention.
James Crawford
January 31, 2012
I suspect that the Great White Huntress who is lurking in her lair overlooking the frozen lake with her RINO rifle close at had has reached the same conclusion and is manipulating the primar voting to make it happen.
It needs lots of editing and to be extended to reflect events, but what do you think of my pitiful attempt at poetry that I posted in General Comments?