lpnmajor wrote:
Some of us have been sounding that alarm for years, but many folks couldn't be bothered. The entire concept of a two party system of governance is un-Constitutional, and is nothing more than a s**m to c***t the American people out of their rights.....and their money. The traditional "conditioning" left over from Imperial rule, where commoners were taught to fear their "betters" and keep their mouths shut, was questioned on paper by our new leaders...............but adopted in practice. We still wear that conditioning today.
The Constitution stipulates that all power derives from the people, ALL the people, rich and poor alike, and that the levels of government serve the people, being composed of our fellow citizens. That means that my Congressman has the same status as I do, or I have the same status as he does, however, I am in fact HIS superior, as he has chosen to be a public servant and I have hired him, along with my fellow citizens. Ever tried to walk in to your Congressman's office for a chat? Yeah, me too.....but that behavior of exclusion is in fact illegal....but we accept it because we've been conditioned to treat them like our betters.
The DNC and the new RNC made a deal in 1864 to split the country between them. They agreed that we'd become exclusively a two party system, where we had NOT been prior to that. They agreed to work together to exclude anyone not of their ranks, in order to keep power concentrated, deciding to assign the moniker "Independent" to those not in the fold.....and teach people that "Independents" were rebels and i***ts. They agreed to create artificial divisions between them, to keep the people distracted and compliant and ensure a continuous succession. They agreed to begin a campaign of slowly eroding the bill of rights to facilitate a complete takeover of the United States, becoming the masters we rebelled against all those years ago.
Tell me, does your Congressperson and senator listen to YOU, or do they listen to the leadership of the party they belong to? If you and your fellows v**ed in a Republican representative, do you think they have a right to change party's after e******n, because THEY think they can get a better deal for themselves? You know this very thing happens frequently..............and all we do is complain about it, unless we happen to belong to the party they switched to.
Partisan politics is a complete s**m - and we've been had big time.
Some of us have been sounding that alarm for years... (
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My Congressman and Senators write me rhetorical letters about what they v**ed for and not much else. Term limits would certainly help but that will never happen. That was a very big issue in TN when I ran for the State Senate in 1994 and nationally as well. It died a sudden death. We seem to be headed toward a gigantic stink and a crunch. The lady (I think Kankune) who wrote the post on the "Fourth Turning" a week or so ago seems to have the future bore sighted. It's going to get uglier!