marvin
For most people, being able to vote in an election is the ultimate feeling of freedom one can achieve in a democratic system. “We choose our leaders, we are a free people, we have freedom of the press,” have been the mottos that give most of us pride as individual living in the U.S.
However, do we ever question the legitimacy of those claims, as to whether we really choose our leaders, are a free people and have freedom of the press?
The majority of the people have seen only two political parties through out their lives sharing the stronghold of power in this country: the Democratic and the Republican parties. These parties’ candidates are the only ones cheered in the mainstream press, and no one else– have you ever noticed that or wonder why?
The candidates of these two political parties are the only ones the media joke about, comment about, interview with, and place in the real political contest for public office. Have you ever wondered why they are the only ones?
I have learned that there is a Congressional resolution that says that only those political parties that hold 15 percent in the polls, are allowed in the presidential debates; consequently, the mainstream media flatly deny equal coverage time to those who are considered outside of the Democratic-Republican clique, which I would call the private electoral cartel. They are owned by private financial consortiums.
It’s not a secret that the same people fund both political parties – mainly by donating huge amounts of money for both parties campaigns through corporate disguises and more especially to the media, just like Don King, the boxing promoter who owns the champion and the contender, while the fans take the match more seriously. So, does Don King care who wins or loses? Of course not, he owns both sides of the controversy. And is the same to the owners of the two political parties.
This is exactly what happens within our political system, the elite or the aristocracy, those who don’t have a face but speak through their banks and corporations, are the one who own both sides of the game – or both political parties, pick and fund their candidates’ campaign, while the media serves as the cheerleader, steering people’s emotions upside-down, and always promising benefits and a better life to the people. The prize to the media: millions of dollars in exchange for their coverage, and their attack to those who are outside their clique.
In America isn’t a two party system. It’s one party with two factions. We must keep that in perspective now days, as Noam Chomsky once said. Therefore, when you vote, you’re voting for the clique’s choice, the one that will respond to the elite’s financial interests, and not of the electorate.
For this reason, I believe the whole election thing is a whole fraud, after you have voted and things don’t go well as promised, you can’t complain because you voted for that you got. That is why they push for people to vote, to legitimize their fraud. If you don’t believe me, look at the thousands of “laws” they pass every year. Most are to suck people’s wealth, and that is why most of us are poor, and the elite is always richer.
