Still Arguing for a Third Party...

Throughout this multifarious election campaign we're shackled with, I'm reminded time and time again why I felt the need to begin venting via this blog.

On the one hand we have an incumbent President, who rode to office on a wave of excitement and hope; promising what they all do: change, prosperity, national pride...Whose true focus has been to raise enough money to ensure his re-election. Then on the other hand we have a wildly unelectable trio of very wealthy oligarchs left standing after the church circus sideshow the Republican Primaries are. Mitt, Rick, and Newt. Or is it Moe, Larry, and Curly the Three Stooges with cash and corporate backing?

Either way America, the 66% of us who do the heavy lifting in this country slopping the trough for the other 33% who feed from the tax crib; lose.

All of you still mesmerized by the lie that the Reagan administration was: small government, low taxes... still can't wrap your minds around the fact that the federal government grew under Reagans watch dramatically. Taxes were lowered for sure, but only for the wealthiest 3%. Under Ronnie's direction the deregulation of our banking system began at a rapid pace. Rules and regulations put into place after the Great Depression fell away; allowing the banks and a variety of savings & loan organizations to unleash a slow building tsunami of economic destruction that we're still witnessing today. What I mean by 'still witnessing': it's not over. We have yet to reach the aftermath stage, the wave has not rolled back into the sea, it's still surging inland quietly, persistently, without warning to those it will claim next.

First it was PATCO, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. When they had the audacity to strike protesting out-dated equipment and working conditions, Uncle Ronnie summarily fired the entire group and decertified their union under the guise of national security. Resulting in a corps of ill-trained overworked, poorly equipped, and still un-represented workers trying desperately to do one of the worlds most mentally demanding jobs.
Throughout the ensuing decades a drum beat of demonization directed at organized labor has grown progressively louder, drowning out the voices of fact and reason; favoring those who benefit most from this rightward swing of the pendulum.
Corporate America.

If you think for a moment that the Supreme Court decision allowing corporations to donate to election campaigns as individuals was not politically motivated by the right wing of the Republican Party then you missed the bus entirely. There is no shelter and you're drenched in a down pour of propaganda. This court, more than any before it is polarized along party lines in such a way that judicial independence has become an afterthought for the people who occupy the bench. Some justices even openly attend functions given by entities with business before the court. Though maybe not illegal in the strictest sense, it certainly is at the very least a conflict of interest. Given that neither justice sees the need to recuse themselves from the case following this demonstration of partisanship does nothing but cause alarm, disgust, and revulsion.

So, faced with the reality that the leaders of both parties are only engaged in a battle for the procurement and maintenance of power. That the partisanship they exhibit is merely a tool of electability, pandering to our basest instincts, while barely concealing the contempt with which they view those they use.
How do we move forward?

With corporate interests bankrolling both parties, who now control us as never before through the Patriot Act, and the latest defense spending bill which suspended Posse Comitatus; our last and best hope for rolling back this wave of fascist government is to form a third party. Those of you who feel as I do must recognize the fact that the suspension of Posse Comitatus is tantamount to a declaration of war against every free thinking citizen of this nation.

Monolithic power in the hands of a rotating cabal of thieves is not democracy friends.