Reply #195: Lesson learned: don't bother to ever vote for US Senator

[IndianaGreen]

Lesson learned: don't bother to ever vote for US Senator

It is not just the Senate's 60-vote artificial barrier, but the blue dogs and conservadems that are part of the problem. In effect, the 60-vote barrier is unbreakable unless the Republicans, blue dogs, and conservadems, agree to vote against their own interests. That will never happen!

The one thing we have learned from the past 19 months of kabuki theatre is that the political system is in reality not broken at all, not corrupt in the least. The political system works precisely as it was intended to do: protect the powerful elites at the expense of everyone else. The only way to bring about "Change You Can Believe In" is by mass action against the political system itself, and the elites that benefit from it.

How do we do that? We do that by targeting the corporations and their political allies. We do that by mass popular actions in our own communities against banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, big contributors to political campaigns (such as Hyatt), corrupt politicians, and fellow travelers that defend the status quo.

Mass popular actions are possible because the ranks of the alienated and the disaffected are increasing everyday. The rightwing has been more effective than the Left has in exploiting that alienation, and confusing the alienated further, by channeling their anger at the wrong target. As long as the politically immature and confused populace is made to think that at the root cause of their troubles are immigrants, gays, abortion, liberals, Democrats, Presidential birth certificates, etc., they will be too distracted to realize they are being duped by those pretending to be on their side.

The Left is facing a similar challenge with those that voted for real change, and are hanging on to every word that comes out of the White House pulpit in hopes that wishing so, will make it so. Breaking that spell is hard to do for it is based on faith, not reason. I am convinced that if Jesus tomb were to be discovered in Capernaum, with Jesus body inside, and evidence that his body had indeed been moved to his hometown from the temporary tomb in which he was buried in Jerusalem (hence the empty tomb), that millions of the faithful would still adhere to the Resurrection story out of fear their entire universe would collapse like a house of cards.