Wednesday, November 5, 2008

I hate to say it but there are dark dark days on the horizon for the American public. It’s never a good thing when one party has a majority in all branches of government. You thought the past 8 years have been a wild ride, just wait for the next 4. (Yes I understand that the senate majority isn’t great, but it’s still enough to cause havoc on the system as a whole…)

Before you begin sending me hate mail you should know that I’m not a registered republican or democrat but an independent so my stance is pretty neutral. I don’t care about this party or that party…I just want the damn thing to work for once and my vote goes to the individual who I believe will accomplish that…nothing more and nothing less!

What the general public seems to have forgotten in this election is that balance in government is good. It means that no one specific faction can control the direction of the country to meet their personal beliefs. That balance has now been thrown out the window because everyone has been absolutely blinded by the media rather than looking at the actual underlying facts and stories. All anyone saw and heard was that President Bush drove the country into the ground but any fourth grade student in a US civics class could tell you that the President doesn’t have that power. It was driven into the ground with all branches of government (republicans and democrats alike) sitting at the wheel. But Americans are fickle and none of us want to take the blame so we follow what the man on tv tells us and he tells us that it’s Bush’s fault so it MUST be Bush’s fault. We then sit back and wait for the media to spoon feed us the answers rather than form an opinion of our own and this round the media was all over the democratic party. They’re the saviors, they’re the ones with the answers and they’re the guiltless ones that didn’t want to go to war, or allow the economy to drop or a million other things that have drug the country down. It’s the Republicans fault, they’re the ones to blame for everything so we have to remove them from that balance and turn the country over to the democrats…they’ll save us…won’t they…at least that’s what the man on the tv said…

Dark days my friends, dark days…

This election should prove the absolute need for a reform of the election laws, the electoral college needs to be scraped and there needs to be a cap on fundraising and donations allowed. It’s time that the process was returned to the average joe american. It’s time that our voice is heard, not the media’s voice and definitely not the top 10% of the wealth in the country. Those are the voices that need to be curtailed so that the rest of us can have a say for once. If this election hasn’t proved that, then the last 4 sure have…

It’s also proven that anyone can buy their way into the presidency. Enough money will buy you any position you like. Rather than doing good with the SICKENING amount of money wasted by both candidates we chose to look the other way and allow them to continue without issue. How many mouths could have been fed from Palin’s wardrobe? How many homes could have been saved from Obama’s infomercials? How many Americans should be outraged by this? How can we sleep at night knowing that rather than do some good with those funds they were flushed down the toilet. The next time you think about donating that $1.00-$10,000,000.00 to your political party, take a look around you, where should that money really go? What good could you do and how many lives could you change by giving that money to something that really mattered?

At the very least we should be allowed a none of the above vote…what’s the percentage of American voters out there that wasted a vote on someone that they don’t support because they had to choose between the lessor of two evils? I know I did…

Dark, dark days…We all should be ashamed of ourselves…

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