When people decide not to vote because the parties are not different from each other, candidates with strong ideological commitments win. That elected person then tries to move the country in the direction of an ideology supported by a minority of voters.
For the past 20 years, that direction has been a death warrant for the American middle class. If you think that the middle class is really what made America “exceptional,” then those political leaders elected to implement and sustain a corporatist agenda have worked to destroy the American Dream, while they hypocritically endorsed and exploited it in order to get elected.
The US is in the middle of a course of corporate political imperialism that has savaged average Americans, while it enriched plutocrats. Wealth has been consolidated, the means-of-production have been concentrated in the hands of a few corporations, and big business has effectively purchased our governments, both state and federal. Mostly because not enough of us take the time to bone up on the issues, or to vote in the off-year elections.
Two things need to change: First, more people need to vote. Second, we must throw off our corporate political masters. As long as we have a situation where corporations have all of the rights, but none of the liabilities of the people, they always have a competitive advantage over the public.
For both your Halloween hangover and your pre-election headache:
Jeb Bush floats idea of continuing the family dynasty:
Ebola Volunteers are heroes and potential disease vectors. Some politicians can’t hold both thoughts:
Other epidemics caused by not voting:
Texas has apparently “solved” the voter fraud problem:
Texas GOP "encouraged" by reports of students & disabled citizens being denied right to vote http://t.co/lqlsbgOyJ1 pic.twitter.com/1acKK1r9Wh
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) October 31, 2014
Though I vote in almost all elections (i don’t vote in most primaries), and though I agree we should overthrow corporate masters, i don’t see how voting would change that. at least not where i live in suburban morris cry. nor do i see change in the rest of NJ. i think we have bad design and a corrupt 2 party hegemony.