The cleared Democratic and the Republican nominees cannot for example tackle the broken system with no proportional representation (rather than winner takes all) and no system to allow instant runoff elections. Both cleared nominees must believe in maintaining the US Empire by force and are only allowed to differ in tactics of advancing the "white man's burden" of "civilizing" and "improving" the world. They will not be asked about why US troops are stationed in 140 countries. Cleared Candidates of both parties will continue to support pouring billions directly into Israel and many more billions to support conflicts perceived to help Israel (e.g. Iraq and Iran) or help bring money to coffers of wealthy corporations. ExonMobile just set a world record with PROFITS in 2007 exceeding $40 BILLION. Both will ignore (or at best pay lip service to) the racial and economic divides that are growing. Both will ignore the inability to face-up to the US criminal history (Slavery, Genocide of Native Americans, support of brutal dictators abroad, militarism etc).
Both have no interest, let alone ideas, in tackling the entrenched military-industrial complex that is bankrupting the US. They all support the pathetic "stimulus package" (with minor variations) that will give some $600 tax rebates to 117 million Americans so that "they can spend it" and stimulate the economy. Yet the real issues gate keepers will not allow to be addressed: trillions in private debts (corporate and individual), $9 trillion in government debt (which means our children will have to pay for it), a multi-trillion dollar mortgage debacle involving large scale fraud, the scandal of a raided/depleted social security safety net, the collapse of the fiat currency otherwise known as the US dollar, and much more. Yes, some candidates maybe allowed to pay lip service to reducing government deficits but the system is now beyond that. Corporations (e.g. General electric, United Technologies) and governments (e.g. Israel) who sucked up these trillions are getting to a point where they do not need the United States as a functioning or stable economic system but only a military power overseas to guard their interests there.
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Illusion Of Choice
Posted on Thursday, February 07 at 14:53 by siljanContributed By
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Dave Ruston
Uhhhhhh ... fool me once .... uhhhhhh ... fool me ... fool me again, eh? Toss me a beer dude!
True change will come when the majority of Canadians just start to say "NO"..."enough is enough". Otherwise, we're just HOPING for someone else to do something. And everytime that's all it ever becomes. Hope, faith, and more hope and faith. But in the end, nothing ever changes. Nothing ever will until people start to take control of their own destiny.
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"When we are in the middle of the paradigm, it is hard to imagine any other paradigm" (Adam Smith).
rejecting the status quo? These people only have power because the people
choose to grant them power.
Once the multitude of corrupt BabyBoomers die of
old age and become irrelevant, the world will chanege. Their slogan was to
change the world - yeah, they did that alright, for the worse!
Unfortunately, 'the people' don't recognize this and for the most part never have. They buy into the notion that this (whatever 'this' is at the time) is just the way things are; there are no other option/alternatives and all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds although, not for them.
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"When we are in the middle of the paradigm, it is hard to imagine any other paradigm" (Adam Smith).