(12-19-2019 09:46 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: Vote out every incumbent for starters.
Term limits for seconds.
Eliminate all corporate contributions and politicians on both sides would represent their constituents again. Why? Because that is who would be paying them.
There is a corporate leadership foundation that meets annually. They love the gridlock because it means business as usual for them. But, they also love the gridlock and bickering because it makes a corporate solution to government look more palatable. The more frustrated the electorate the more open they will be to solutions outside of what appears to be a broken system. Too bad that those folks won't realize that the bickering and partisanship is being driven by the corporations paying the campaign funds of the candidates on both sides of the aisle and bidding them to bicker.
There is no form of totalitarianism more abhorrent than that of a corporate top down world where the common person is seen as a renewable labor source and there is no right of redress of grievances and no appeal. You can at least kill a bad dictator. But with a corporate autonomy bad people remain faceless and merciless in their dictates.
Get rid of corporate contributions and consensus becomes the means again by which we resolve our differences and compromise in practice yields a much truer freedom and much more tolerance as all are involved in determining what is best for the whole.
If anyone wants to do a careful study of the locus of most of our national and worldly ills you will find the excesses and biases of our largest corporations behind most of them. But that's what happens when 2% of the people own 95% of the wealth and want to hide behind labels while depriving the majority and aggrandizing themselves.
But as long as the ever less educated masses are taught that the middle class is responsible for the oppression of the poor this crap will continue in spades. The middle class has no power or desire to oppress anyone. They are merely trying to keep from becoming poor. And the poor won't find the resources they need for a better life within the control of the middle class. Instead they should look to the corporate elites who feign to love them, start tax deductible charitable foundations which never seem to trickle down to the poor, and then question why they are being sold those personas as saviors when in reality their corporations are responsible for their oppression and not the middle class.
Ponder of all of that and then perhaps you will begin to see the solutions. As long as you focus on Democrats and Republicans you'll never see the truth, just the perversion of a system which is supposed to represent the people, and you won't understand that those who want you to see them favorably are really the masterminds of all of the confusion.
Major corporations hate all nation state government because what is good for a country, or good for its citizens, is not always good for the profitability and interests of the corporation. They hate treaties and tariffs, and national defense directives. They hate religious division because it is bad for the bottom line so they are against all religions. They hate moral divisions because it is bad for profits, so they are intentionally amoral. They claim to champion minorities but in reality they are only leveraging them against majorities they see as an impediment. Should they ever win everyone will be treated equally, equally miserable that is. So the faces of some of our largest and wealthiest corporate conglomerates and who pose as humanitarians, are actually nothing more than the same old evil in disguise. Minimize their participation in government and you have a better world.
