People today don't have to be "BI-coastal" to know the democratic process is supposed to be about voting for the candidate based on: fact, truth, logic, and personal belief/ethics. However, the United States has a political system built ON the people, not built FOR the people. America's "Pyramid Scheme of Politics," in the place of what our forefather's built, is a corrupt and multifaceted machine, that does not slow down for the weak and faint of heart. There is virtually nothing left in the "Constitutional Model." However, in its place is a mixed drink of power, elitist slant, unethical choices, and money hungry attitudes. Then the middle class is expected to just drink it down, with a scandal chaser.
The pyramid is a complicated blend of the candidate and the media elite. The candidate, or delegate, whether running for power, the position, or to "represent the American people as a whole" (republican, or democrat), is supposed to be a complete representative of the people who elected him/her. America has to select a group of two to three people, to vote for in each position of power; this year, (either a congressman/woman, senator, and/or a group of amendments (depending on the state). To "cover" the election, there is the mainstream media elite. Whether to listen and/or watch, that includes ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, all of the cable media outlets, plus the whole print press and Internet. However, are the people in the "Fly Over States," (the people not living in a coastal state/city referred to by the elite) being served, taken care of, or even just being listened to at all? These elected representatives and media personalities are not anything without the votes that the people give them, the stories, pundits, analysts, and the others that are giving their opinions on the candidates. This makes a giant pyramid scheme, all using the political voting process. The candidates get into the offices of their running, and the television personalities, pundits, and people with them get all of the ratings and money, they crave. Who are the people that are really leading America into the future?
Take a look at the eduction of the people that are to be the "servants of the people," acting on the behest of the "majority." Of course as a country, it needs some of the most intelligent people, in its most important positions at all levels. However, there is a glaring contradiction between having the most intelligent, best, and brightest, or having the choices the people have now. Almost 95% of the "election candidates," media, pundits, and analysts are from Ivy League/Top 10 schools, have served at the top of the military for a variety of years, or else they are "the legacy" of another (in the respective field, whether a political candidate, like "the Kennedy's," or "Mike & Ron Reagan" being in the Media), in their family. This does not have anything remotely in common with "mainstream Americans." These "vultures of the political culture" (Chris Mathews, Ron Reagan, Jr., Maurine Dowd, Tim Russert, Paul Crugman, Pat Caddell, James Carville, Mary Madeline, Kate Griffin, Steve McMahon, and countless others all feeding off of the teat of the middle and lower middle class) in a place of employment for years (like tenured professors, or judges), doing their work in the elite coastal areas (spending winters in the Bahamas and summers in the Hamptons). While they are completely shut out from the rest of the ideas, ethics, and overall pulse of the remaining part of the country. They are bound to have some kind of bias, slant to their motives, reporting, or overall thought process, because there is not any checks and balances in thier lives, or work. When people cease to seek out new ideas, blend and mix with different people, and only stay with their own kind; they are bound to become fixated on jaded flat, non-inventive ideas.
America can look at the candidates, the analysts, pundits, and the television personalities, all in the same light. Look at a simple example, between the lower 98% of the people in America (the people that make less than $100,000 a year, and an issue that effects everyone), and the people that are supposed to "serve them," report in the best interest of them (giving them the truth), and give guests who are also doing the same. This means that every candidate that runs for an office is automatically not in the same tax bracket, as the people that he/she is going to serve. The reporters and all of the media people that are covering the elections and candidates are also out of the 98% majority of Americans. Even the analysts, pundits, and the wheel greasers of the media are not directly representative of the people, that they so frequently speak of. There are not any people the reporters are talking to, being their "sources," being a prognosticator, or hamming it up to talk about, that are living on the money 98% of the country is living on. This is not even counting the "Rupert Murdock Machine," or the media conglomerates that are in our country. Even "Free Speech TV" and "Link TV," are supposed to be the beacons of light in a murky media blitz. They are slanted so far to the left (with anchors like Amy Goodman and guests), funded by under the table machines (Soros and Co.), that no actual truth can come out of them, as well.
These are the people that are actually running the country, but do they actually see the countries values? Do they report and stand (without any slant at all) on an issue like gay marriage, which shows that over 80% of Americans do not want to gay marriage (in every state, that has had a vote, they have buried that amendment, by vote). This is just one issue, but it is so blatant that it cannot be ignored. Whether an independent, libertarian, liberal/conservative, democrat/republican, or elephant/donkey it does not matter what party these candidates are coming from, who is reporting on them, and who are the people on the shows giving their "opinions" on a television screen, magazine, or in a newspaper. It is all coming from some kind of an angle, been bought, or has some asterisks, by the topic and/or candidate.
America needs change. However, it does not need to change parties. What America needs to change, when it comes to its delegates, reporters, television hosts, analysts, and/or anyone else involved with "The Pyramid Scheme of American Politics," is to show up and vote. Showing that honesty, truth, and justice need to come before anything else. They need to come before: the money that can be made, the corruption that environment and power causes, over getting re-elected, and must come before making decisions based on the minority, over the majority of Americans. The country needs truth. The truth is black and white, not negotiable, and it will never be tarnished. However, the thing about the truth is; it has to be chosen, it will never be handed over, will only happen if someone leads, and that the truth will change things.
Americans must vote with their heads, and not their hearts. Voting for Truth, not for partisanship.
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