It would be exciting to envision an election a year from now where the candidates were both people of high ideals and an American vision, because the voters could really express hope in both the American system and the quality of the election results (whether we agreed or not on policy and issues).
What kind of an election would it be if, for instance, the left were represented by Ralph Nader and the right came up with a candidate who had the pugnacity of Ross Perot and the ideals of Ron Paul?
Now that would be an election. At least we the people would have a very good idea of what our vote would mean and what to expect after the election.
As it is, it will be another round of the lesser of the evils (and I’m voting for myself in any case where I don’t believe in the named candidates). “Lesser of the evils” is the best the one great superpower can come up with to lead the country? What a horrible state of affairs.
I was staring at a ten dollar bill the other day (really I don’t see that many, which is why I try to write books and sell them). Alexander Hamilton was one good-looking dude and beyond that, he was a brilliant man. As a Jeffersonian anti-federalist who believes in the sovereignty of the states and the least government possible to hold the nation’s identity together, I am opposed to Hamilton’s oligarchic philosophy of government because it would have to become repressive. In fact, it has become both oligarchic and repressive in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Worse yet, those “leading” the people aren’t always those elected to do so. But still, an Alexander Hamilton opposing a Thomas Jefferson would be one whale of an election.
What happened to quality in this nation over the past fifty years? Did it go out of style? Are we poisoned by rock music and wild, pink-haired musicians with tattoos to the point that kids raised since the days of the Beatles, Elvis and Black Sabbath are totally brain-dead? We seem to produce surgeons, scientists, biochemists, weapons specialists, but we cannot produce political figures worth the time to watch them blather on television about issues that are nothing more than damned and damnable lies?
It isn’t that the leadership is devoid of a plan for America. It has a plan that it dare not go on network television and speak to the people lest the tea go back into the harbor and the second American revolution spring out of another shot heard around the world.
Any candidate worth being in office would be politically incorrect, opposed to multiculturalism, an American patriot and a staunch constitutionalist. (And quite quickly assassinated.) That’s why we get the dregs out of the garbage barrel for candidates … college graduates who lack true education, old-line political figures’ offspring, but above all, conformists to a bland program of what even more bland American voters will believe, still harping on fear, racism and things that were issues forty to fifty years ago.
When Ross Perot introduced the “infomercial” in 1992 many Americans got very excited at the idea of having someone who permeated the political scene with what appeared to be fresh air and new ideas.
He disappointed us.
Maybe we, as a people, will never again become excited over a third or fourth party that’s serious about taking back our nation because we won’t believe them. We see a dynasty of old pharaohs and a few new faces here and there, but no one has a vision for the America that the people want — or should want. No one’s going to have a perfect candidate because there aren’t any around, people are all flawed somewhere and by the time the press decides to embellish their flaws, the whole election process in America is less intellectual than a game of darts at the local pub.
This present generation of leaders will only continue in office (it doesn’t matter which party they belong to) and nothing much will change, other than your family might suffer some bad news about casualties in the latest non-war for senseless reasons. We might hear one side saying they will put an end to the present war, but then will the lives lost so far be in vain? I believe they have been lost in vain anyway, because the nations where they are being killed never were a national security threat. That was a manufactured lie and it’s being exposed in various forms daily.
The original idea upon which this nation was founded is almost wholly lost now, from lack of history teaching to lack of interest on the part of the American voter, who wouldn’t know whether the nation has gone communist, socialist, fascist, oligarchy or merely insane.
My grandmother, rabid about teaching “tell the truth” to anyone around, used to add that it takes a lot of work to be a good liar, you keep having to cover your tracks. The simplicity of truth is so much easier and people can generally deal with it. Except the truth about why the United States is such a meddlesome-mattie wouldn’t set well with the public and some politicians would lose their status and perks, so all manner of contorted lies are set forth to justify the unconscionable and polish the image of the leaders.
But the best cosmetic only lasts so long, and the mud in the face on this administration has removed the makeup. Now we’re left with either reelecting the people who have brought the nation down over the past three years at dizzying, free-fall speeds, or electing some Democrat who wouldn’t know a new idea if he/she drove into it and parked there.
Millions of good, solid, patriotic Americans would be eager to vote for a staunch constitutionalist, and Hollywood, naturally, would be more than happy to skewer such a person over the national network pit barbecue. But we’d have an election. We’d have the passion and the conviction. It wouldn’t be “same old blahs as usual.”
From what has emerged so far, it would seem better to postpone Election 2004, but then that is unconstitutional. However it would give us time to throw out all the illegal aliens who vote and get our original Americans of European origin worked up enough to want a real American in every office in the land. I’d love to see a representative or senator stand up and face the political panderers and say “you have sold our country to lawless people who have no root here and no interest other than to take America’s money and send it back to their own nation, I do not care about their votes, since I intend to deport them all.”
Mexico makes sure Americans don’t come down there and work, taking jobs from Mexicans, but they insist the US take in their illegal immigrants and provide all sorts of benefits to them while denying proper benefits to American retirees who need to be paid fairly for all the Social Security money the government took, spent, and continues to spend.
No wonder foreigners want to come here. They get privileges and rights, we who were born, lived and worked here can’t get the time of day from our government.
But until the people see the uniforms and tanks in the streets, they will continue to believe they are free, the rest of us will preach to the choir and absolutely nothing will change.
Election 2004? It won’t make an iota’s worth of difference either way, the pillaging of America will go on.
Yes I really believe the election should be postponed … until after the next revolution to take back our land.
Only then can Americans expect truly free elections.
“Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact.”