By Walter L. Hilliard III
Why would you vote or believe that we have anything but a government and corporate system that operates like an organized crime family? Corporate Pigs, Bankster Gangsters, almost ruined our economy, stole our pensions and investment money, and made trillions doing it until the bottom fell out— but President Barack Obama even told us, to our faces, that he was not going to send anybody to jail. Why? Well, because the Bankster Gangsters funded his elections. And the rich folks and corporations that really run the country even give money to both crime families, the RepubliCons and the DemoRats, just to cover all their bases.
Where is this great capitalistic democracy we’ve been taught about? Not here in America.
That’s right, America is not a “real” democracy or the type of capitalistic system you’ve been led to believe. Our country is built to serve the rich and strings mainstream America along by dangling the “American Dream Carrot,” dividing and conquering the masses with racism (convincing Whites that Blacks, especially, and Latinos, too, are a threat to their achieving the American Dream), facilitating the Transplanting of Officials (politicians and business people taking jobs in one another’s profession), interlocking directorates (corporate leaders sitting on multiple and the same boards), and so on and so forth.
Quite some time ago, really in the 1980s when I was a college lad, I figured out how our elitist system – led by those like the Koch brothers and their “kind” – the Power Elite, if you will, “buy” candidates, as do special interest groups and lobbyist. In fact, I believe President Barack Obama raised about $800 million to win the 2008 election and nearly a billion dollars to get elected in 2012. But it’s rarely mentioned how our voting system, based on an electoral college (business and political power brokers) that was put in place (by the likes of the landed aristocracy and others) over a century ago to prevent the masses from taking their power or changing their system. And today, the elite use athletes and celebrities to put “guilt trips” on us – “Vote or Die,” “Rock the Vote” – if we don’t vote for these Political Pigs.
If you are aware of what goes on during most elections, particularly the presidential election, then you know the corporate media works with both the Democratic and Republican parties to keep other groups or candidates from other parties off the TV and out of their debates. Thus, the masses of viewers really only see the two major party candidates and their agendas presented to them.
So fewer voices helps both of the major parties maintain control, along with their corporate supporters or special interest groups. Additionally, higher voter turnout almost always favors Democrats, who tend to get much more support from minorities, which should make minorities question how it is that their condition has not substantially improved when compared to mainstream White America over the years? Democrats have been in power longer than RepubliCons in recent times if you count Bill Clinton’s eight years, Bush’s eight years, and then Obama’s two recent terms.
Think about it—both the DemoRats and RepubliCons love the current system, although they’ll complain but never make significant changes, because they each have a 50-50 chance of always winning the most powerful office in the land, the presidency. Those are unbelievable odds. But people have sensed how corrupt politics are for decades, which has led to only about half (in bigger elections like Obama’s, the largest turnout since 1960: 56 percent turned out in 2008) of the voting age population turning out for most elections.
So don’t believe the hype about voting—it’s really a sham.
