Delusion Prevents Revolution
Posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2009
by Joel Hirschhorn
http://www.delusionaldemocracy.com
Everything wrong, rotten and evil with the political system surfaces in the current health care reform bills in the Senate and House. It should make Americans sick and furious that their elected representatives are selling them out, providing benefits to corporate interests and making national finances even worse than they are already. Members of Congress have been bought by corporate money and have made deals so that they can get reelected.
In the end, President Obama and Congress will congratulate themselves and tell Americans that they will benefit from whatever bill is signed into law. But as many trustworthy analysts have already revealed, lobbyists have succeeded in ensuring that the seemingly few benefits to the public are heavily outweighed by the financial benefits to the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, for example. Huge amounts of money will be transferred from taxpayers to corporate interests, placing the nation in even worse financial shape in decades to come.
In a sane and true democracy a revolution would be brewing to overturn such a corrupt government. But Americans remain distracted, hopeless, and disinterested. The two-party plutocracy run by rich and powerful interests continues to successfully control and manipulate the public with the help of corporate news media.
I keep meeting Americans and those from other countries who see all these dismal truths, but clearly the vast majority of Americans have lost the revolutionary spirit upon which their country was founded. British tyranny was so easily seen. Today's tyranny by the plutocracy that greatly harms at least one third of the population remains victorious.
Despite millions of Americans that go hungry, homeless and jobless without access to health care, and with too little energy to become political rebels, the greater number of those in better financial shape seems more than willing to ignore the decay of a once great nation.
When the health care reform bill is sign by a grinning President Obama it should not trigger happiness. It should spark major riots in the streets by Americans willing to fight for a true democracy.
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Top-level comments on this article: (3 total)I am embarrassed to say that I live in the state that Joe Lieberman is from. What I cannot understand is why he, being an insurance company employee is allowed to vote in Congress. Shouldn't Mr. Lieberman be back in his cubicle at Aetna filing papers or something ? Puzzling ! All I know is, as far as the people of CT are concerned, that dude's career is finished !Lieberman is symptomatic of the inability of the Right (disguised as so-called "Independents") to stand for principles instead of corporate interests.
Well, you can vote Joe from office and that will be just fine with him. He has planned his career for just that situation. He is at the ripe old age of somewhere between 20 and 70 where he is looking forward to a nice VP job with Aetna or some such. You see, it is you, the people who have the Corpocracy you deserve. It is you the people that has perpetuated the incestuous relationship between government and big biz. But, slowly the people are taking the blinders off. Non-main stream reporting on politics has helped working people focus on issues as never before. The Internet and bloggers have played a major role in this. Question is, how will a delusioned people react to corrupt Corpocracy? Will they vote out a few encumbents and expect reform to take place? Will they continue to ping-pong between the two parties expecting something different, hope, etc? Will they look to the TEA party for a 3rd party expecting something different from that? Maybe Sara or some other fair haired person can come and save us.IMO, none of the above will not, and should not make the cut. Just so much wasted energy and resources. True, a 3rd party is the ONLY way to reform this government. But, not just any 3rd party. We need to establish a Party based on a few basic rules that will prevent the Party from being co-opted by the money influence. We need a Party that puts accountability into the political equation by authorizing membership to serve an oversight function for elected/appointed officials. We need a Party that projects a pure reform agenda, void of social, hot button issues. Reform should be the first order of the day. Get further detail by visiting the Republic Sentry Party on the web. Certainly, we don't have to tolerate a Corpocracy that has worked for 30 years to break the back of the middle class worker under the guise of 'free trade'. It really is up to you.Otherwise, we have the Corpocracy we deserve.
Joel is right again and right on ... inside the beltway it is a different world and we have to change the way business is done there because its all big business and big money ... its not the America we fight and die for ... its just the big lie, misdirection and deception ... time for Americans to wake up and take action ...thanks Joeljohnny
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