The American Dream

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[pierre]

Truer now more than ever.

[ronchamblin]

This guy was brilliant, brutal, honest ... and free.  A rarity then, and now.  He knew that most, but not all, politicians are bought, inept, confused, and corrupt ... and basically existed comfortably in an elite class of political mediocrities ... out for themselves and their friends. 

Some of us consider ourselves to be aware of the scenario as described by Carlin, but cannot perceive of a viable way to remove or improve the scenario.  The political process of voting is supposed to be the way to produce significant change.  But does it work?  Is it working?  Can it work?

There is something seriously ... mysteriously ... wrong with the democratic process as it is currently practiced.  If the system worked, we would not see the continuing deterioration of conditions as suffered by the working majority.  Any effective and fair voting system, culminating in a governing system, would not have seen the initiation of legislation that ultimately works against the quality of life as experienced by the great majority. 

People do not willingly allow legislation that destroys their economy.  We have a system that somehow allows, tricks, or encourages citizens to vote ultimately against their own interests.

How do we explain what is called the one percent phenomenon?  What is the nature of this constant extraction of wealth from the great majority to that of the few .. called the one percent?   

The great majority of working class citizens seem to exist in a one-way control scenario, wherein they are controlled by a top-down, one-way data and energy transfer.  The control flow originates via some foggy powers at the top, and ends with us ... the sheep. There is no functioning mechanism for the transfer of our desire, will, or control to those at the top ... even though a democracy is supposed to allow a good measure of this bottom-to-top influence.  Is this phenomenon beginning to sound like some type of dictatorship of the few over the many?

This amazing and mysterious process, wherein the working class apparently votes against its own interests ... and seemingly accepts the deteriorating conditions within which they live ... appears to be quite satisfying to the comfortable, the wealthy ... who rest, seemingly oblivious, in the status quo ... in the stability wherein they reap the benefit of the continue shift of wealth from the mass of workers to themselves.  I suspect they are not totally oblivious to the danger in which the status quo places them, especially as conditions drift to further inequalities and abuses to the masses, not to mention the further destruction of the home we all share. 

Perhaps the majority of politicians, once elected, simply believe themselves set apart in an elite class ... a special club ... and thus consider themselves immune from any responsibility to make decisions favoring the great majority.  The seemingly fabricated arguments between the left and the right, between the demos and the repubs, appear to hide the legislator's true motives and actions from the independent press and the average citizen.  The rigid "war" between the demos and the repubs is a farce, giving the appearance of genuine struggle for the people, while it is in reality only an easy way to hide the true motives of most politicians, which is to remain in a job, and to continue raping the system and the mass of workers, who represent the true value and production in our country.

We seem to have a system wherein a newly elected legislator, who might not have been tamed, corrupt, and shaped by greed at the start, becomes so, after descending into the entrails of the club.  The halls of congress seem to harbor an insidious and destructive disease which infects most legislators who, lacking the natural inoculations such as integrity and dedication to serving the majority, succumb to it.

Do we need more politicians like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders?  You can be your ass ... your whole ass. We currently have too many greedy, bought, dumb, reptilian predators, who must find jobs in the private sphere where they can be more easily prosecuted for their crimes.