Do the Dems Need More Candidates?
- Thread starter What Would Jesus Do?
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It depends on how you define hopeless.
If you think that you're going to make huge changes to our society through the political process, then by all means, go ahead. You're playing a totally rigged game... totally. Nothing is left to chance. It sucks, but it's true. Now, it's hard for most to accept that. That's fine, too. It's a lot easier to resist that and keep believing the charade you've been participating in is really not a charade, than it is to realize that this political process has been so manipulated and criminalized that it is no longer the peoples' voice. It hasn't been for at least a century.
Most people refuse to learn about, or accept, the fact that our monetary system is totally rigged against us. Some even defend it! I can name a half-dozen posters here that cherish the Federal Reserve cartel. That's fine... believe it's all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips to your heart's content.
Our representatives don't serve us. They are bought-off, one-by-one. There is the occasional congressman, or woman, or even senator, who resist that. But, they are so outnumbered that they never make any headway. If they ever do try and run for an executive office, and the established wealth knows they're a threat, they get marginalized at every turn. Then, there's the constituency that is taught from birth that "you vote for the lesser of two evils." It's just like organized religion.
If you try to change or affect society's attitudes through the political process, you're in for lots of disappointment, unless you're keeping the status quo. If you like perpetual war, constant monetary manipulation and bought-off legislators... and you work the system accordingly, then you're set. That's actually not a bad thing. But, calling it Democracy, like it's being done or carried out without a corrupt system rigging it at every turn, is just a lie. A really ugly, blatant lie.
Calling me a genius when I'm a mental retard.....neo con??????........How dare you!!!!!!
How do you think this works? It seems to me if a few thousand votes shift in FL in 2000 we get a different world. Do you think some power installed Bush as OiT claims? Do you think this power wanted Iraq and planned it all along? Did this same power orchestrate things to get the ACA passed?
Do you think these institutions aren't capable of self-preservation? It doesn't require some secret meeting for entities with similar incentives, and massive wealth, to get what it wants.
Yes, "POWER" does everything! It's not necessarily the same handful of people each time, in some clandestine operation. Surely it's not beyond you to understand that like-minded, powerful people invest in and go to whatever measures necessary to maintain power. Nowadays, the deception and corruption is almost right out in the open! So, if you really believe that the average citizens are choosing all of this and everyone is playing by the rules? You're dreaming. Whenever the rules don't serve them, they change the rules! It happens incrementally and on all levels. At the last GOP Convention, I watched them change their own rules that took anything and everything "Republic" out of Republic-an.
I'm glad your heart is in the right place, and you'd like to believe the average guy that pays the taxes gets what they vote for. But, that's just not how this rigged game works. You revel in the fact that it's a game. When you're a pawn in a rigged game, how much difference do you really think you're making? As much as you pay attention to the goings-on in politics, surely you must see the blatant corruption. Do you think they just stop being corrupt when it matters most? I hope not. You love the game. Keep playing it. Or, keep letting them use you to play it, I should say. But, by all means, tell yourself that everything is just Yankee-Doodle-Dandy. Or, see it for what it really is.
I haven't really looked into the quote too much, but seems fitting.
“A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men… [W]e have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.” – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, The New Freedom, 1913
He signed the Federal reserve act into law. Sold it lock, stock and barrel. Look at the war that followed. This country has been almost constantly at war, somewhere, ever since. And, the debt and deficit and inflation grow and grow. No end or reversal is even possible.
yes, he thinks that like I think that and most of the world thinks that. yes. it is only yourself and a few libs, who cannot stand back and look at what it is for what it is. bush was installed. Obama was installed over Hillary. yes.
and Obama goes along with it like his masters tell him to, and the next one in- shall go along with it. look at the wars ramping up with Russia and the middle east, I don't care who gets installed, they gotta do war. for years to come.
