Elections Are A Scam

I thought you said Electricians are a scam.

No.
There was no typing mistake i
I beg you to read the rest of the text .

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Democratic Process: Another Day, Another Capitulation



Written by Chris Floyd
Friday, 14 December 2007
Industry Flexes Muscle, Weaker Energy Bill Passes (NYT)

The Democratic "opposition" in Congress - you know, the party that represents the common people, good working folk and the most vulnerable in our society: the sick, the old, the poor, the children - have just effected yet another capitulation to Money Power, gutting an energy bill that would have required Big Oil - now reaping the most gargantuan profit margins in the entire history of human enterprise - to pay a pittance in new taxes. The original bill would have also required utility companies to eventually produce a whopping 15 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources.

These measures - displeasing to the boardroom lords and their viceroy in the White House - were dutifully stripped out by Senate Majority Leader Harry "Shaky Knees" Reid. So what happens now? Why, more capitulation, of course:
The bill now returns to the House, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted that it would pass overwhelmingly early next week. A White House spokesman said President Bush was pleased that the bill was "moving in the right direction" and that he would sign it when it reached his desk.

"President Bush was pleased." Well, that's really the most important thing, isn't it? That the Leader be kept in happy countenance, so that he can care for us with free and untroubled mind.

A hardened cynic might say that the original bill was just a feint all along - the usual shuck-and-jive for the Democratic base, offered up in the sure knowledge that it would be disemboweled in good time at the behest of the nation's true managers. A lesser cynic in a charitable mood ('tis the season, after all) could aver that the Democrats might actually pass a windfall profits tax on Big Oil and a few mild measures on renewable energy - as long as no one said "Boo!" to them. I must say that I incline to the former view myself, but I suppose the latter is not entirely outside the realm of possibility. But in the end, it doesn't matter; someone is always going to say "boo" to any attempt - however anemic - to ameliorate the ravages of the Money Power in even the slightest way. And these Democrats, whether by design or from cowardice and corruption - or both - will always jump out of their skins and scurry to do the boss-man's bidding.

(For more on this theme, see "Cave Dwellers: More Democratic Deceit on War and Torture." And for more on the might of Money Power, see yesterday's post, "Central Bank Socialism and America's True Values.")

If the world is playing Monopoly, the person who is playing Chutes & Ladders will be disappointed.

believe me please.
The title of this thread mirrors my view when I observe your country's show business in the name of Democracy.
Seek Democracy elsewhere and allow USA to continue
this outmoded drama.
My name is Rama

Too much to read that can be summed up in a few sentences. Get with the U.S. social mores; don't waste our time with reams of verbiage. Be concise. Your posts are like the Ashkashic Records.

Actually, I don't know what the "get with the U.S. social mores" comment has to do with anything, but that Akashic records comment was priceless.

Ramafuchs, I agree with Foofie in the sense that I wish you would try to summarize things after reading them and then maybe just post a link to the article along with the summarizing post. This way, people can decide whether they want to read the whole article for themselves, and people would be more likely to post in response, in my opinion. All that text is a pain in the ass to scroll past if you're just checking out a thread to see what's being discussed. Just a suggestion.

Carry on.

When he does that then people make fun of his post because it isn't the quality of the Queen's English with perfect grammar.

He posts these articles as a method of expressing his view without having to struggle expressing it in a language he isn't comfortable writing.


That being said, Ramafuchs, you might inspire more discussion in your topics by selectively quoting short excerpts from the articles and giving a link for people to read further.

As far as elections go, no they aren't perfect and some of our candidates try to work on changing that without getting sucked into it by doing so.

I still much prefer an inferior election process and peaceful transition of power to that of assination or bloody coup.

And those people are what we in my circle call moronic assh*les.

I , with all my humility accept your logical, constructive advice.
I wish not to hurt anybody who are well informed in this forum by posting( a cut and paste) thread.
My intention is to motivate the passerby- ( visitors) to participate in this forum.
By putting the whole text, I presume, one can read without klicking the link which sometimes make trouble to the computer.
Anyway I will try to limit my participation if it is irksome for others.
Regards
Rama

It's nauseating when you think about it. Elections -- the centerpiece of democracy -- have become so steeped in money from special interests and the wealthy that the constitutional notion of one person, one vote has become a historic footnote.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/65238/

The only solace is that we may have finally reached a moment of clarity. We see why Congress can't pass reasonable automobile fuel efficiency standards, while the icecaps melt and natural disasters escalate. We see why the middle class continue their slide into poverty, as the disparity between rich and poor grows to levels not seen since before the Depression. And why there are 47 million Americans without health insurance.

These facts are not merely the result of an abominable administration. I wish it were that simple. It is a lethal brew of profoundly broken electoral and media systems that must be fundamentally reformed -- and fast.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/dont-change-the-channel_b_82208.html

There is an interesting poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson that I would comment to the author of this thread, The title is "Miniver Cheevy".

Geo
you mean this?
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Grew lean while he assailed the seasons
He wept that he was ever born,
And he had reasons.

Miniver loved the days of old
When swords were bright and steeds were prancing;
The vision of a warrior bold
Would send him dancing.

Miniver sighed for what was not,
And dreamed, and rested from his labors;
He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot,
And Priam's neighbors.

Miniver mourned the ripe renown
That made so many a name so fragrant;
He mourned Romance, now on the town,
And Art, a vagrant.

Miniver loved the Medici,
Albeit he had never seen one;
He would have sinned incessantly
Could he have been one.

Miniver cursed the commonplace
And eyed a khaki suit with loathing:
He missed the medieval grace
Of iron clothing.

Miniver scorned the gold he sought,
But sore annoyed was he without it;
Miniver thought, and thought, and thought,
And thought about it.

Miniver Cheevy, born too late,
Scratched his head and kept on thinking;
Miniver coughed, and called it fate,
And kept on drinking.

-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

Yes I do.

I pay my respects to you for your critical observations about my inadequacies