There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic
into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures
in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded
as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
― John Adams, The
Second President Of The United States
The two party system of government in the United States of
America has become so corrupted by money and power that they no longer have the
ability to govern. They have become
multi-millionaires in their service to the special interests they serve and
America cannot heal until the evil is excised.
They, not the people choose who is to govern through corrupt primaries,
redistricting and onerous voter I.D. laws that subvert the will of the people
and subjugate the populous to financial slavery.
Through their fealty to big pharma a generation of children
have been reared on psychotropic drugs, mercury laced inoculations and school
to prison pipelines through for-profit charter schools. Another generation has been condemned to a
lifetime of servitude to their government protected highly profitable bankers
who provide loans just to acquire a higher education to fill nonexistent
jobs.
Those who cannot attend college become cannon fodder for
endless wars of aggression in cash poor, resource rich countries to pursue the
goals of an insatiable empire. Others are
gunned down in their classrooms and at concerts by semi-automatic rifles fully
sanctioned by the politicians. It is
time to dump the corrupt and evil 2-party system in America but doing so will
be almost impossible as the parties control the entire voting process. From The Free Thought Project:
Excerpt:
Powerful Poll Shows Most Americans
Now Realize Gov’t is Owned by Lobbyists—Not the People
Transcending party lines, a new
poll published by the Associated Press-NORC Center reveals both the right and
the left distrust Congress and understand that they are beholden lobbyists and
not the people.
Washington, D.C. — (RT) The
overwhelming majority of Americans, irrespective of party allegiance, holds a
dismal opinion of Congress, a fresh poll shows. It found 89 percent of Democrats and 82 percent of Republicans disapprove of the
legislature’s work.
The new poll, published by the
Associated Press-NORC Center on Monday, revealed that a total of 85 percent of Americans believe the Congress’s job is
below par…
Only 44 percent of Americans
approve of the work their own Congressman or Congresswoman is doing on Capitol
Hill, 41 percent of Democrats and half of Republicans… Fewer
than 20 percent of Americans believe there is merit to the lawmakers’
legislative work, while over a third of all respondents think it is mostly
bad…
The plunging ratings aren’t a
product of the Trump era and its partisan skirmishes. Americans have long been
disenchanted with Congressional politics. A glance at the Gallup Congress
approval chart through the years will show that it rarely climbed over the 20 percent threshold since 2010…
“Large majorities in both parties
report lawmakers should pay attention to the majority of Americans but believe lawmakers actually pay attention to
donors and elites… The part of the
population most catered-for by the lawmakers are the lobbyists that “gave money
to last election campaign,” according to the survey.
Yeah pretty shitty statistics but congress doesn't fear the
people, the people fear congress and what they'll do next. It's not as if we can vote them out, we can
only hope that they will resign and they don’t resign until they have become
extremely wealthy through insider trading.
It’s sad but true. That is life
in the American Empire and the world knows it.
From Information Clearing House:
Excerpt:
Don't Bother... They're Here
February 27, 2018 "Information
Clearing House" - When empires begin to die, their public
acts--in sharp contrast to the ponderous, stately sobriety of their
behavior while ascendant--tend to be marked
by queer and pathetic eruptions of idiocy, bathos, and mania.
Though it can’t be known when our last Imperial Clown will
douse the last lights of The Exceptional Empire and drop the keys in the
mailbox for the last failed bank--America is showing clear signs of approaching
meltdown…
The American Empire, enmeshed and floundering in a smothering
net of contradictions, deceptions, and disastrous choices, is now playing
out a pathetic absurdist farce before a fascinated and astonished world.
The essence of it is this. Due to prolonged betrayal of working people
by the Democratic Party over many decades, the blatantly falsity and
obvious deception it peddled so hard and so long to keep them in thrall have at
last lost their grip. The result was loss of the Presidential election in 2016.
Stunned and unable to swallow the undeniable reason for it, the
desperate party leadership concocted a preposterous, threadbare fantasy narrative
to deny responsibility and direct shame, blame and disgrace away from itself.
The obvious best target was Trump… It would not suffice, though, to attack him
as a legitimate opponent because that
would mean the electorate, left to itself, had made this awful choice… No,
there had to be a nefarious agent that hoodwinked naive voters and diabolically
stage-managed this vile and treasonous outcome.
Since the entrenched, master
apparatus of America--the Deep State--has, as its main object, the care and feeding of its Militarist,
Imperialist agenda, and since the Democratic Party has become its official
voice, it was clear long before the election that Russia and Putin were the
enemy of choice…
Putting aside the fact that America
has no democracy, and never has had, the DNC honchos finessed their treachery
while raging at their putative hijacking by enemies of America. In other words,
the crime was not the fact of gross DNC
misfeasance, but the horror that it was exposed by evildoers.
Yes in 2016 the unthinkable happened “the electorate, left
to itself, had made this awful choice” and dumped the career politicians in
both parties and chose Donald Trump. The
Democratic Party after “prolonged betrayal of working people over many decades”
was dumped by those working people who flocked to Donald Trump. Instead of learning from their mistakes, they
exhibited insane hubris in fabricating the Russian collusion witch hunt to
justify an out of control Special Investigator with a dubious past of service
to the Deep State.
But I digress. The
DNC devised a fool proof way of denying the Democratic voters a say in their
primaries by awarding “super delegates” a veto over the American people. In 2008 Hillary Clinton won the primary but
was denied the nomination by the “super delegates.” For instance Hillary won Massachusetts by 15
percentage points yet, Massachusetts delegates went to Obama. In Michigan and Florida Hillary won the
primaries and the delegates were awarded to Obama, who by the way wasn’t even
on the ballot in Michigan. Has the party
learned their lesson? From Zero Hedge:
Excerpt:
Lawyers For The DNC Argue That
'Primary Rigging' Is Protected By The First Amendment
The ongoing litigation of the DNC Fraud Lawsuit and the appeal regarding
its dismissal took a stunning turn yesterday. The defendants in the case,
including the DNC and former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, filed a
response brief that left many observers of the case at a loss for words.
The document, provided by the law
offices of the Attorneys for the Plaintiffs in the case, Jared and Elizabeth
Beck, and appears to argue that if the
Democratic Party did cheat Sanders in the 2016 Presidential primary race, then
that action was protected under the first amendment…
The defense counsel also took issue
with Jared Beck for what they termed as: “…Repeatedly promoted patently false
and deeply offensive conspiracy theories about the deaths of a former DNC
staffer and Plaintiffs’ process server in an attempt to bolster attention for
this lawsuit…” The DNC defense lawyers
then argued that: “There is no legitimate basis for this litigation, which is,
at its most basic, an improper attempt to forge the federal courts into a political weapon to be used by
individuals who are unhappy with how a political party selected its candidate
in a presidential campaign.”
The brief continued: “…To recognize
any of the causes of action that Plaintiffs allege based on their animating
theory would run directly contrary to long-standing
Supreme Court precedent recognizing the
central and critical First Amendment rights enjoyed by political parties,
especially when it comes to selecting the party’s nominee for public office...”
If all that weren’t enough, DNC
representatives argued that the Democratic
National Committee had no established
fiduciary duty “to the Plaintiffs or the classes of donors and registered
voters they seek
to represent.”
It seems here that the DNC is arguing for its right to appoint
candidates at its own discretion while simultaneously denying any
“fiduciary duty” to represent the voters who donated to the Democratic Party
under the belief that the DNC would act impartially towards the candidates
involved.
Like I stated earlier, this is what the DNC did to Hillary
in 2008. The Democratic Party of Florida
sued the DNC for nullifying the Florida Primary and the Court ruled in favor of
the DNC and awarded Obama the Florida delegates. From Political Ticker:
Excerpt:
A Florida court threw out a lawsuit
Wednesday challenging the Democratic
Party's decision not to seat delegates from Florida.
(CNN) - A Florida court threw out a
lawsuit Wednesday challenging the
Democratic Party's decision not to seat delegates from Florida - as
litigants prepared to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court…
"This is nuts. This is not
right. How can they remove Florida after
all the things that Florida has suffered through– hanging chads, through Bush v
Gore, and they're sticking it to us again," DiMaio said before the
hearing.
Judge Richard Lazarra sided with
the party, saying political parties have
the right to make their own rules. DiMaio's
is the second Florida lawsuit protesting the Democratic Party's decision to be
thrown out of court. An earlier one filed by Sen. Bill Nelson and Rep. Alcee
Hastings, both Florida Democrats, was also dismissed.
Yep, nothing new happened in 2016 same chicanery different
primary. Bernie Sanders voters need to
blame themselves for Bernie not winning the primary because they were too lazy
to research the different rules in different states. In some states you must be a registered
Democrat or Republican to vote and there is a deadline to register. Diamond and Silk, the North Carolina ladies
who supported Trump did their research and notified voters in each state of
what they would have to do to vote for Trump in plenty of time to be in
compliance. By the way, St. Bernard
would not have been much different than Hillary on anything. From Anti-War:
Excerpt:
Et Tu, Bernie?
Sanders signs on to Russia-gate
conspiracy theory
One by one, the plaster gods fall,
cracked and crumbled on the ground: the
latest is Bernie Sanders, the Great Pinko Hope of the (very few) remaining
Democrats with a modicum of sense who reject the “Russia! Russia! Russia!”
paranoia of Rep. Adam Schiff and what I call the party’s California Crazies.
The official Democratic leadership seems to have no real commitment to
anything other than fealty to a few well-known oligarchs, who provide the
party with needed cash, a burning hatred of Russia – an issue no ordinary voter
outside of the Sunshine State loony bin and Washington, D.C. cares about – and
exotic issues of interest only to the upper class virtue-signalers who are now
their main constituency (e.g., where will trans people go to the bathroom?).
Overlaying this potpourri of
nothingness, the glue holding it all together, is pure unadulterated hatred: of President Trump, of Trump voters,
of Middle America in general, and, of course, fear and loathing of Russia and
all things Russian.
And now the one supposedly bright
spot in this pit of abysmal darkness has flickered out, with Bernie Sanders, the Ron Paul of the Reds,
jumping on the Russia-did-it bandwagon and cowering in the wake of Robert
Mueller’s laughable “indictment,” in which the special prosecutor avers that
$100,000 in Facebook ads were designed to throw the election to Trump – and to
help Bernie!
Oh no, says Bernie, from his place
of exile in the wilds of Vermont, where the Russians did not take over the
electrical grid: It wasn’t me! Instead of standing up to the crazies –
by which I mean the Democratic party Establishment – and saying that the whole
Russia-phobic campaign is based on nothing but hot air and fantasy, he’s kowtowing to the very people who are
trying to smear him as a Russian agent…
Not only is Bernie buying into Russia-gate, now that the case for
it is collapsing – nearly two years later and there’s still no evidence of
“collusion” – but he’s calling for a full-fledged witch-hunt…
The Deep State’s bid for power has
hit several roadblocks recently, but it could yet succeed. First, Mueller could indict the President for
“obstruction of justice” – a charge derived not from any real criminal
activity, but from the investigation itself. I think this is the most probable
outcome of all this.
Barring that, however, there is one
road they could and probably would go down, given the intensity of their hatred
for this President and their overweening power lust. Having gone this far in an attempt to overthrow a sitting President,
they can’t just stop halfway to their goal. They have to go all the way, or
else suffer the consequences – public exposure, and possible criminal charges.
In short, if they fail to get Trump on some semi-legal basis, I think they’d
welcome his assassination.
The Deep State cannot allow the
Trump administration to stand for a number of reasons, the chief one being that
the coup is already in progress and
there’s no stopping it now. The President’s enemies are legion, they are
powerful, and they are abroad as well as here on American shores.
They cannot allow his brand of “America First” nationalism to
succeed, or seem to succeed: it conflicts
too violently with their globalist vision of a borderless America-centric
empire ruled by a coalition of oligarchs, technocrats, and Deep State
operatives who’ve been shaping world events from the shadows for generations…
Will they oust a sitting President
and institute a new era in our politics, one in which the political class can
exercise its veto over the democratic will of the people? That’s the issue at hand and that’s why I
spend so much time writing about Trump and his enemies’ efforts to destroy him.
Because if the Deep State succeeds, the
America we knew and loved will be no more. Something else will take its
place – and believe me, it won’t be pretty.
Yes, St. Bernard is no different than Hillary. He supports the illegal war the U.S. is
waging in Syria and stands by every criminal act of Benjamin Netanyahu. St. Bernard has supported the U.S. Empire
time and again. That is why the corrupt,
evil 2-Party System must go. From
Covert Geopolitics:
Excerpt:
US Collapse – the Spectacle of Our
Time
May you live in interesting times,
goes the Chinese proverb. Few can doubt that we are indeed living in such an
interesting time. Big changes are afoot in the world, it seems. None
more so than the collapsing of the American Empire.
The US is going through an historic
“correction” in the same way that the Soviet Union did some 30 years ago when
the latter was confronted with the reality of its unsustainable political and economic system...
In any case, all empires come to an
end eventually. History is littered with the debris of countless empires. Why
should the American Empire be any different? It’s not. Only arrogant “American exceptionalism” deludes itself from the
reality. The notable thing is just
how in denial the political class and the US news media are about the unfolding
American crisis.
This is partly where the whole
“Russiagate” narrative comes into play. Blaming
Russia for allegedly destabilizing US politics and society is a cover for
denial over the internal rot facing the US…
For seven decades since the Second
World War, “Pax Americana” was the grandiose name given to US imperial design
for the global order. The period was far from peaceful as the vainglorious name
suggests. Dozens of wars, proxy
conflicts and violent subversions were carried by the US on every continent in
order to maintain its empire. The so-called “global policeman” was more often a
“global thug”…
Rather than accepting the fate of
demise, the US is aggressively resisting by denigrating China and Russia’s
power as somehow illegitimate. It’s the
classic denial reaction of a sore loser.
So, what are the telltale signs that the US is indeed undergoing a
seminal “correction” — or collapse?
The heyday of American capitalism
is well passed. The once awesome productive system is a skeleton of its former
self. The rise of massive social poverty
alongside obscene wealth among a tiny elite is a sure sign that the once
mighty American economy is chronically moribund. The country’s soaring $20
trillion national debt is another symptom of chronic atrophy.
What the champagne bubbles can’t
disguise is the structural failing of US
capitalism to reverse exploding inequality and endemic poverty across America.
The national prowess of US capitalism has been superseded by global capitalism
where American corporations among others scour the planet for cheap labor and
tax havens. There is no going back to a supposed golden age, no matter how much
Trump crows about “America First”.
The other side of the coin from
historic US economic demise is the concomitant rise in its militarism as a way
to compensate for its overall loss of power.
It is no coincidence that since the end of the Cold War following the
dissolution of the Soviet Union, US
military interventions around the world have erupted with increased frequency
and duration. The US is in a veritable permanent state of war actively
deploying its forces simultaneously in several countries, particularly in the
oil-rich Middle East.
Washington of course gives itself a
fig leaf cover by calling its surge in militarism a “war on terror” or
“defending allies”. But, increasingly,
US war conduct is seen for what it plainly is — violation of international law
and the sovereignty of nations for the pursuit of American imperial interests. In short, the US is patently lashing out as a
rogue regime. There’s no disguising that fiendish fact…
The American Empire is failing and
flailing. This is the spectacle of our time. The Western mainstream news media
are either blind, ignorant or complicit in denying the historic collapse…
Casting around for scapegoats to “explain” the deep inherent problems, the political class are using Russia and
alleged Russian “interference” as a pretext.
World history has reached a
foreboding cross-roads due to the collapsing of the American Empire. Can we
navigate a safe path forward avoiding
catastrophic war that often accompanies the demise of empires?
A lot, it seems, depends on ordinary American people
becoming politically organized to challenge their dysfunctional system run by
and for the elites. If the American people cannot hold their elites to
account and break their corrupt rule, overhauling it with something more
equitable and democratic, then the world is in peril of being plunged into
total war. We can only but wish our American brothers and sisters solidarity
and success.
There is another price to pay for the evil corrupt 2-party
system of hegemony. The mass shootings
taking place in our schools and communities by untreated mentally ill
people. From Gregory Palast:
Excerpt:
Florida = Honduras: Inequality
kills. Want to end the American shooting
epidemic?
Guns vs Homicides by Nation
A crucial factor about the Florida
killer: his family had to move out of
the school district because they couldn’t afford the rent. Resentment
yields anger. Not every poor kid becomes a killer — think Bill Clinton — but
there will be one. Inequality kills.
A student of statistics — my son —
was surprised by his regression analysis of gun ownership per capita in each
nation versus homicides. He wrote,
"The result of my scatter plot came as quite the surprise to me: there was just about no correlation between
number of guns and number of gun homicides." In fact, "the correlation
coefficient was -0.105871699." That is, by a small amount, more guns meant
fewer homicides.
So what DID prove a strong
correlation? Homicides versus the "GINI" coefficient. GINI is the
measure of income inequality in a nation.
I've just returned from the nation with the widest gun ownership in the
world, Switzerland, which has
vanishingly few homicides — although almost all men 18-35, due to ancient
military tradition, must keep weapons in their home (many fully automatic).
The nation with the same population
as Switzerland, Honduras, has the
world’s highest homicide rate — yet Honduras outlaws personal gun ownership. David Hemenway, of the Harvard School of
Public Health notes, "Switzerland and Honduras are not even close to being
the same in many aspects of their society that will influence the levels of
violence and homicide."
Exactly. Want to end gun violence?
End violent inequality…
Switzerland, Finland, Sweden,
Norway, France, Germany Austria, Iceland — all nations with tiny small homicide
rates — and very low GINI scores. Iceland,
where a huge one-third of households have guns, is the most economically equal
society on the planet — with a homicide rate of ZERO.
There will be no equity in America for as long as we have an
evil, corrupt 2-party system answerable to no one. They do not care about the American people,
they only care about the special interests that they serve. This cannot be tweaked, this cannot be
incrementally changed. From Lew Rockwell:
Financial Tyranny: ‘We the People’
Are the New Permanent Underclass in America
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a
group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a
legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” ― Frédéric
Bastiat, French economist
Americans can no longer afford to get sick and there’s a reason why. That’s because a growing number of Americans
are struggling to stretch their dollars far enough to pay their bills, get out
of debt and ensure that if and when an illness arises, it doesn’t bankrupt
them. This is a reality that no amount
of partisan political bickering can deny.
Many Americans can no longer afford
health insurance, drug costs or hospital bills. They can’t afford to pay rising
healthcare premiums, out-of-pocket deductibles and prescription drug bills. They
can’t afford to live, and now they can’t afford to get sick or die, either.
To be clear, my definition of
“affordable healthcare” is different from the government’s. To the government, you can “afford” to pay
for healthcare if your income falls above the poverty line. That takes no
account of rising taxes, the cost of living, the cost to clothe and feed a
household, the cost of transportation and communication and education, or any
of the other line items that add up to a life worth living...
Indeed, Americans currently pay $3.4 trillion a year for medical care. We
spent more than $10,000 per person on health care in 2016… As Bloomberg reports, “Rising health-care
costs are eating up the wage gains won by American workers, who are being asked
by their employers to pick up more of the heftier tab… The cost of buying
health coverage at work has increased faster than wages and inflation for
years, pressuring household budgets.”
Appallingly, Americans spend more
than any developed country on healthcare and have less to show for it. We don’t
live as long, we have higher infant
mortality rates, we have fewer hospital and physician visits, and the
quality of our healthcare is generally worse. We also pay astronomical amounts for prescription drugs, compared to
other countries…
While Obamacare (a.k.a. the
Affordable Care Act) may have made health insurance more accessible to greater
numbers of individuals, it has failed to
make healthcare any more affordable.
One investigative journalist spent
seven months analyzing hundreds of bills from hospitals, doctors, drug
companies, and medical equipment manufacturers. His findings confirmed what
we’ve known all along: health care in
America is just another way of making corporations rich at consumer expense. This is clearly not a problem that can be
remedied by partisan politics.
The so-called Affordable Care Act
pushed through by the Obama administration is proving to be anything but
affordable for anyone over the poverty line... Indeed, for too many Americans who live paycheck to paycheck and struggle just
to get by, the tax penalty for not having health insurance will actually be
cheaper than trying to find affordable coverage that actually pays for care.
This is how the middle classes, who
fuel the nation’s economy and fund the government’s programs, get screwed
repeatedly. When almost 60% of Americans
are so financially strapped that they don’t have even $500 in savings and
nothing whatsoever put away for retirement, and yet they are being forced to
pay for government programs that do little to enhance their lives, we’re not
living the American dream. We’re living a financial nightmare.
We have no real say in how the
government runs, or how our taxpayer funds are used, but that doesn’t prevent
the government from fleecing us at every turn and forcing us to pay for endless wars that do more to fund the military
industrial complex than protect us, pork barrel projects that produce
little to nothing, and a police state that serves only to imprison us within
its walls…
In other words, in the eyes of the government, “we the
people, the voters, the consumers, and the taxpayers” are little more than
indentured servants and sources of revenue. If you have no choice, no voice, and no
real options when it comes to the government’s claims on your property and your
money, you’re not free.
It is time to dump the evil, corrupt 2-party system that has
ravished America. The entire system is
corrupt from corrupt big media, to corrupt big pharma, to corrupt military
industrial complex, to corrupt intelligence agencies, to corrupt politicians. It is time, America cannot wait. We must vote out every incumbent that is
financed by the Deep State. It is time
to excise the evil.
By Patricia Baeten
