On one end of the rope are the Money and on the other the People. I have no omniscience about the outcome, but I sure hope it's the latter. After all, there are 400 of them and 300 million of us. It all really comes down to money and their belief that they can buy the system, the process, and us with it.
We can't let that be our future.
Next, I want a viable Democrat to run against Obama. I mean a real damn Democrat, not the Social Republican we have now. Short of that, I'll take a majority in both Houses again and maybe we can actually get some stuff done. But I'm losing more and more faith in the President as the guy who can fix the messes we're in. He is without question a very smart man, and perhaps the only adult in the room in DC. But he doesn't know diddly about how to do capital P Politics.
A Rolls Royce with a driver named Boehner just pulled up to the White House and handed a silver tray with a box and beautiful bow on it that contains the keys to the government next year. And they don't know what to do with it. Or at least they haven't indicated that they do. Stupid Democrats.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court race was a blotch on our legal and political systems. Yes, I'm glad the liberal one won. But I'm not happy about the why. See, it means that if Walker's illegal bill makes it to that once august body it means that it will likely be overturned. And while that's a good thing, what it really means is that I wanted the other candidate to lose because he would do the opposite and that is not what a Supreme Court is supposed to be about. It's supposed to be the final check in the balance of things and it has been perverted by the political process and financial gain.
Citizens United, anyone?
But the alternative, appointment, isn't any better. It does however provide one thing that elections don't, which is a thorough investigation by the other branches. Sometimes they get in because one party has enough votes to approve them easily, like Justice Roberts.
But they are both corrupted by money.
I have said this before, and I will keep on saying it: It has to be about what's right, not who's right. It has been pointed out to me that "right" is subjective and while that's true, I think the majority of us have a pretty good sense of fair play and that what we really want is to just be left alone to enjoy whatever time we have on the planet.
Corporations are not, regardless of the Supreme Court's opinion, people. And as such, they have no compassion or sense of fairness. They have but one objective and that is to post profits, no matter what it costs. There was a segment on Rachel Maddow tonight that talked about this, and I urge you to go check it out at msnbc.com
As a Midwesterner, I am shocked by the outcome of the court race in Wisconsin. The new head of Milwaukee is a Democrat who beat his opponent by almost 2/3. A mere couple of hundred votes difference in the court race is fundamentally incongruous. The values of the Midwest have changed, it seems from when I was a lad there.
I apologize again for the intermittent posts. I find that I require more mental health days lately as the stupidity levels increase.
And the realization that when one looks at the bigger picture, all of this seems pretty petty. The bees are dying in rapid number. The earth is literally falling apart. And we're fighting over imaginary money and perceptions of power.
It's really become rather pathetic.
Maybe we could just start over. You know, replace every last one of our elected officials with people who aren't bought and paid for and who have but one goal and that is to return this country to its core principles and values. You know, where all People are created equal, have the same rights and protections, and where the public and private sectors actually worked together instead of this cat/mouse game they're playing now.
Can we give this country its soul back? I think so, if we haven't collectively lost our own.
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