Reading time – 19 seconds; Listening time – 2 minutes . . .
Set aside the Republican circus sideshow barker for now, because he is exactly what Steve Schmidt labeled him: The candidate of middle finger Republicans. The reason his poll numbers don’t go down when he says offensive things is because his vulgarity feeds their hostility.
What is left is a field of 16 presidential wannabees who are essentially interchangeable with one another regarding what they would do to America if elected.
That notion brought me back to the 2012 election. Here’s a mock commercial I created for that contest. Listen to it and in your mind’s ear replace Mitt Romney’s name with that of any of the 16 current contenders and you’ll find that nothing has changed.
Note: Click near the left end of the black bar to play the audio.
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3 Responses to Nothing Has Changed
Dominick August 19, 2015
… and nothing will change if we continue to make voting decisions based only on the promises of politicians and what we see and hear on the TV stations owned by our largest corporations.
Laws, not promises, run our country. Whatever a politician promises is irrelevant, unless it describes a bill they will vote for to become a law. The current Presidential campaigns provide clear examples of political promises that have no basis in laws to fulfill them. Presidents may affect some policy decisions, but they must rely on Congress to present them with laws to enforce and change how government runs. Obviously, most members of Congress have no honest intention to change anything unless it fulfills their personal self-interests.
Our current information technologies now provide us with methods to elect people with personal integrity, and with clear and transparent accountability to the American people. We must stop thinking about our political system as if we still live in the 18th century. Thinking that voting in elections will change the entrenched corruption of our elected “representatives” is a delusion of citizen power inculcated by years of political propaganda. If we have no control over their conduct the day they step into office, we have no power.
Transforming our political system into a true democracy, instead of an elective monarchy, requires that we change the people who run it. It does not require spending millions to convince corrupt politicians to do the right thing. To learn how, visit truedemocracynow.org
Jim Altschuler August 16, 2015
You’re right again. Substitute any candidate. it’s all the same.
David Houle August 16, 2015
Wonderful commercial! Somehow push that out. For anyone that hasn’t read my blog on the current election, here is the link: http://davidhoule.com/evolutionshift-blog/the-shift-age/2015/07/28/why-the-2016-presidential-campaign-is-unfolding-as-expected