Posted by Editors on April 07, 2008 at 12:32:51:
Most Progressives vote politicians who will do the "Right" thing, which they believe is the way to participate in the DEMOCRATIC process...,but the "right" to VOTE in itself, is NOT democracy! Democracy is People Empowerment. Voting for politicians does NOT give We, the People, and realistic empowerment.
April… ‘08...
Too often we deceive ourselves into accepting the popular notion that simply having the right to vote
gives us empowerment to decide matters that affect our lives… But when we stop to really think about it, we can only conclude that it, the VOTE, does not!!! Under this political and economic system, in which autocratic control by both the politicians who are seated in the Federal and State governments, and the Ceo’s and the Boards of Directors who govern and manage our society’s dominant corporations…, OUR right to VOTE is strictly limited to whatever issues are placed on the political agenda by those who have already decided the directions that We, the People, will be forced to follow.
The most current examples of the autocratic political and capitalist corporate controls under which we suffer today are ..., the Iraq Invasion, which goes on despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of We, the People, are wanting its end….., and the insufferable high rising costs of living while wages generally remain constant…, and the explosive rise in the price of needed gasoline. And both the Iraqi War and the extraordinary massive profits accruing to the Oil corporations …, have been directly orchestrated by the Oil corporations whose foreign policies have been dutifully carried out by OUR so-called People’s Representatives!
And it is OUR VOTE which has placed the politicians into OUR government to do the bidding, not of We, who placed them there, but to do what the Oil corporations decided to be done, as recorded in the annals of the PNAC, (Project for the New American Century )….
***See also……http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
Real, genuine DEMOCRACY is a most fearsome concept to the corporate and political rulers of our country. Our nation’s people, the overwhelming majority who make up our working classes…, will NEVER be truly FREE until We have a genuine democracy in all the public institutions our society needs to govern ourselves in our civic and economic lives. We need democracy in our government and in our industrial institutions. Then, and only then, will OUR VOTE in all matters that affect our lives have meaning.
We need all the progressive voices which currently are ineffective in bringing about the democracy they erroneously pursue in placing their trust into the powers of the current, corporate errand boys in both the Senate and the House of Representatives…, however these politicians sometimes make weak noises about corporate excesses…, as the current presidential candidates are now doing…
Progressives…, wake up! How many more years of this steady erosion of our society …, which is currently being prepared for a Euro type economy based on the consolidation of Canadian-United States-Mexico Corporate strategy to make wage labor easily available for a more effective global competition with both the Euro capitalists and the China capitalists (Who are still referred to as the Chinese Communists!!) …. will you …, Progressives, …, be in the IDEOLOGICAL EMPLOY OF THE SYSTEM OF CAPITALISM before you join in the movement for a GENUINE DEMOCRACY as projected in the PEOPLE FOR A NEW SOCIETY site?
Or is CAPITALISM a forever in you collective mind set? You needn’t reply. Actions speak louder.