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Our Democracy Is Dying


Posted: Dec 15, 2014

In case anybody hasn't noticed, democracy in America is dying now. This isn't an overstatement; it's a fact. Corporate interests dominate our politics so much at this point that our government, for all intents and purposes, is merely its handmaiden. Whatever Wall Street wants, Wall Street gets. Corporatism is the new order of the day. One political party stands for it; the other political party won't stand against it.

The word inertia means the tendency of an object to move in whatever direction its been moving until and unless there's the introduction of a counterforce, and the Democratic Party is simply not providing the necessary counterforce to the corporatist agenda so exalted by the Republicans. Such a possibility is undermined by Democrats with corporatist agendas of their own. Watch them trying to sideline Elizabeth Warren as I write this. It's all gotten so terribly predictable.

Some people are pussyfooting around the word, but others are realizing it's time to say it: we need a peaceful revolution in America. In the words of President John F. Kennedy, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." The American people have simply got to stand up now. This isn't the time for any of us to go mute -- whether it's those who feel there's no point in saying anything, or those who feel there's too big a risk in saying anything. And you know who you are.

The social revolution we need is comprised of two major categories: What we say No to, and what we say Yes to. In the American Revolution, with the Declaration of Independence we said no to what we would no longer accept (living under British rule). In ratifying the Constitution, we said yes to what we would do instead (form our own system of government). The template was genius then, and it's genius now. Today, we need to say no to a situation in which our government is bought and paid for, and yes to a return to democracy. Nothing short of an historic, nothing namby-pamby-about-it, serious social movement will take us out of our free fall and set America back on the track to real liberty. Today, lobbyists -- not the people -- are in control. And that is not freedom.

The situation has shaken out -- and thank you, Senators McConnell and Reid for adding to the disaster of Citizens United by upping the amount people can contribute to political parties; that really helps (not) - in such a way that nothing short of a Constitutional Amendment will stop the big money flowing into our political campaigns like poison into the veins of our democracy. The best bet now -- given the resistance within both major parties to seriously taking down the dastardly "For Sale" sign posted on the front yard of our government -- is for the people ourselves to call for a Constitutional Convention, state by state. And that's what has started to happen.

If something inside you says, "That's true," then I hope you get active. We're in serious straits now and things won't get better by themselves. In denial about this? Go stand over there. Too cynical to think we can change things? Go stand over there. Too sedated to be upset yet? Go stand over there. An apologist for the system? Go stand over there. Ready to kick ass? Go to http://www.wolf-pac.com/ and express yourself big time. Work with that organization, or with any other you like. But this isn't a time to sit on the sidelines. Our democracy is sick -- it is really, really sick -- and all of us are needed now to nourish it and make it well.

 

Maybe America needs a strong third party which will uphold the Constitution and US laws.

 

 

Link:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marianne-williamson/our-democracy-is-dying_b_6323194.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

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Dying Democracy - anonie

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While I think this is something that might work, still we won't have a chance at anything till Mr. O, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are gone.

It is unbelievable that we have gotten around to another need for a revolution, not to be dictated to by elites, Democrats and Republicans who say but do nothing. I am angry with all of them.

All the horrible scandals and present dangers from ISIS, ISIL, etc. along with seemingly all the hard work that Martin Luther King did, even dying for what he believed in, is now in the hands of young people who were not even in the movement. I can remember how far blacks and whites came in the 60s to where we are today. I for one do not want to go back there to what it used to be.

I just hope someone with common sense comes along to get through to the unhappy people in our country, me along with them. I have watched the demise of our country in this administration but was not happy at everything GW Bush did during his time either. Seems both took liberties with EO.

I hope our country can be healed and go back to it being for and by the people instead of these very selfish elitists and people who have no brains at all and think they can lie about everything they do or blame it on someone else.

I am almost afraid it is too late to undo what Mr. O and Nancy and Harry have done to our country. Nancy doesn't have to practice being dumb, she is. Harry is a small man who has an inferiority complex and has learned how to be powerful by saying "No" to everything they try to bring to Congress. To me, he has too much power.

It is SO not about the Reid's Pelosi's or - Boehner's.... it is about

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ALL of them and the fact that the American people have rolled over for the two-party system.

Do people REALLY not understand that the Republicans and Democrats only take turns being in power and that through BOTH party's administrations nothing substantial changes?

Do people REALLY not look past their party to see the whole picture?

This type of narrow thinking is EXACTLY what both parties depend on- a citizenry who is divided and does not pay close attention.

Go ahead, replace Reid, Pelosi, Boehner.... and you will get (for the most part) more of the same in different colored suits.

UNTIL WE demand an end to the status quo, nothing significant will change.

and for those who wink at torture while saying tsk-tsk? Please look at the bigger picture to see how we will ALL pay for this mistaken policy.

True. The US is now an oligarchy. - sad

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Corporations, lobbyists, and the elite 1% with the most money now rule the country.

Washington (both parties) are in bed with Wall St. - Frank Underwood

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and money is power.

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