Illusory Democracy (Congress, Brown, lobby, politician)

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This post is not a defense of democracy. It is just an observation that what we have in the United States is not a Democracy in which the will of the people is the major deciding factor in the creation of legislation which effects the very lives of those people. The recent Wall Street bailout is but one glaring example of the State blatantly disregarding the will of the people.

No what we have, well, actually, what you have, may best be described as a parliamentary or administrative democracy. You get to vote for the people who will influence your lives with their chicanery, but you have very little voice in the chicanery itself. This is really no different than being able to choose your executioner out of a line of them. Either way, your going to be executed.

And even your choice of the politician to elect is limited. You don't select the candidates, you just narrow them down as it were. It doesn't matter which candidate gets elected, their person still wins and you lose. If you think I'm exaggerating, try to get a third party candidate on the ballot. Oh it happens, but very rarely. Look at the demographics of the US Congress. All Democrats and Republicans and one Socialist. Do you think that is coincidence?

So even the idea of voting your choice is a fraud. It is their choice every time. And as far as the legislation itself, who influences the lawmakers once they are cozily ensconced in their seat. Well it's not you, that's for sure. It's the corporate lobby and Wall Street. Again, we don't have to go further back than the bailouts. And what about the fact that one of the architects of the bailout, Treasury Secretary Henry "Hanky Panky" Paulson was the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, one of the recipients of that bailout money. Can anyone say conflict of interest? Nothing like taking care of your good buds back at the old stomping ground, huh Hank?

So what is the real form of government in the US? I'd say it is some strange mixture of oligarchy and fascism. Or perhaps Corporate Fascism is a good word for it. Sometimes it's hard to tell whose head is up who's a**, the corporate elites up the State's or vice versa, although when the day is done, all the brown nosed ones are fat, drunk and happy while the rest of us become more and more marginalized. Well let's be more than marginalized, let be energized, polarized and galvanized, and above all, lets be freaking ticked off as well. And lets take all that energy, anger, resentment and rage and lets use it not to reform this disgusting abhorrent system. Lets use it to overthrow it.