Unless you wear a MAGA hat to bed, you know our government is headed in the wrong direction. Unless you’re crazy, you know our government is corrupt. Unless you’re a genuinely rotten person, you want much, much more peace, prosperity, security, and doggone it…freedom, for both yourself, and all your fellow citizens.
But unless you’re in the less-than-10% (typically more like 3-4%) who ever vote for third party or independent candidates, you chose this complicated, legalistic/ rule-fraught, unfair, dysfunctional and globally violent corruption. All of it.
I don’t mean to be an insulting knowitall, but this is very simple in a nation with elections:
Either you use your power of peaceful revolution to oppose what’s not working and replace it with new guards for our future security, or you’re actually supporting the bad guys. If you’re not actively firing the bad guys with your vote, you’re as much as hiring them; either by direct choice, or in vapid inaction.
Now you may not disagree with that last paragraph. That may be while you’re still reading.
But there’s also simple logic in determining just who the bad guys really are.
And that is likely where 90% of voters will disagree.
Our constitutions were written in large part to prevent politicians from granting “to any citizen, or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens.” (Indiana Constitution Article I Section 23)
This applies to everything political; from fair trade, housing and corporate laws to …ballot access.
Yet everyone with a living brain cell knows that our political scheme is all about special deals for special people. Politically favored corporations get special rules that ensure protected profits without fear of competition. Politically favored people get special legal/tax exemptions, or Get Out Of Jail Free cards.
I contend that a fundamental part of the problem is the recent, self-appointed, tribal, monopolistic and genuinely stupid “Two Party System.”
Since WWII, and mostly since the 1970s, and varying state-to-state …ONLY Democrats and Republicans can be on election-related commissions, and have special election status that grants them more money, more ballot access, and more power in government.
Not only have these private clubs granted themselves special powers, but they have also imposed special hurdles and handicaps on any group or individual who’d challenge them.
Most of us understand that if there was by law only one manufacturer of coffee, or shoes, or cars, that costs and quality would be horrendous. Most of us could imagine that even with two options, there’d soon be so much collusion and price-fixing to squeeze out any other competition that, in effect, there’d really be only one option with two faces. Many of us disdain the rapidly clotting mergers of media, pharmaceutical and healthcare empires just the way many thought it right to bust up the old monopolies in telephone and power service.
And all of us benefit from the profusion of choices in food, clothing, electronics and other, relatively lightly-regulated industries.
So what’s up with the “Two Party System?”
Not only is it not ordained by constitutions, the Bible or physics, it’s actually anti-constitutional, by both state and federal constitutions.
You’ve got to be blind and deaf to miss the collusion and corruption of this monstrosity. You’d have to be either part of their crony crime ring, or crazy, to actually like this almost-universally-detested tribal ruling class.
But you’d be a rare and precious person to actually vote against it.
I’ll just say it. If you vote for any part, any candidate of the Two Party System, you’re at least sustaining the problem. Even the best (D) and (R) candidates represent the false hope of fixing a tribal system that doesn’t want to be fixed, and is well-organized against anybody who’d try.
More to the point – if you never vote for any alternatives to the status quo power structure, you ARE the problem.
All the issues of incumbency – entrenchment of power and money, influence of monied connections, corruption – that goes double for political parties. While politicians eventually die, their power structures too-often live on…and on…and on.
It’d be simple and easy to fix it all. But you’d have to:
1. Understand the problem, and
2. Change your choices. YOUR choices.
Come one, my fellows and friends. We’ve all but ended institutional slavery. We’ve extended the vote to every citizen (both living and dead, along with non-citizens, too…but that’s another story).
Nearly everybody says, “I don’t vote for the party, I vote for the candidate,” and up to now, they’ve mostly been lying.
Nearly everybody says, “Yeah, but look at the choices they give us…” as if we have no choice in that.
Well-over 90% of us keep doing the same stupid thing and never see the connection between bad choices and bad outcomes.
What’s really sad is that there are just as many great people as ever. Many could be Founding Fathers (and founding mothers and/or non-binary whatevers) of a new and better age; learning lessons of the past and creating a better future.
It’s just that now such people are pushed aside in favor of body-painted tribal savages and criminal clowns. Too few ever throw their own hat into the ring, and yet love to complain.
So let’s snap out of that and finally use our votes as intended…as weapons of peaceful, orderly revolution, and end the rule of clans and tribes and gangs at last.
We Declare 