On June 2nd, I got unleashed. Off the sling.
Today is June 4th.
My biggest accomplishments…I took a selfie in the bathroom mirror because I put earrings in for the first time in over two months…
…and, I voted my absentee ballot.
Small things mean a lot. LOL
The Democratic Establishment: corrupt, mendacious sellouts.
There, I said it.
You’ve seen what I’ve seen. Take the Presidential campaign. The Democratic Party schedules Presidential debates during NFL playoff games, to try to ensure that no one takes any interest whatsoever in our Presidential campaign or our issues, so that name-recognition will carry the day. The Democratic Party cuts off one Presidential candidate’s access to the most important tool of campaigning, the voter file, not long before the first primary. The Democratic Party quietly repeals the prohibition against accepting campaign contributions from lobbyists.
God forbid that our voters might choose someone that our party elites might not want – someone who is not as corrupt and feckless as they are.
Why don’t we just call it what it has become: the UnDemocratic Party.
And the funniest/saddest thing is that the Party Politburo does it with one excuse and one excuse only: that they are choosing “the strongest candidate for November.”
Excuse me?
Our Party Politburo is so deeply incompetent that they shouldn’t even be choosing lottery ticket numbers, much less candidates. Based on their track record, I wouldn’t even trust them with paper vs. plastic. They would screw up a one-car parade.
And yet the party bosses want to seize the power – from our voters – to decide whom our candidates should be. Their motto is simple: “the voters be damned.” Or as Joni Mitchell once put it, “don’t interrupt the sorrow.”
This is an edited version of what a prominent, former democratic Senator had to say about our process of selecting a candidate. It is a basic quarrel with the convention delegates and how they are “designated” from their home party to select a candidate. I tend to think the same way as the “corrupt, mendacious sellouts”, I want someone who is strong enough to win. But, he has a point too, that we don’t trust the people on the ground to decide what is best for us and I’m rethinking my mental alliance with the powers that be. I trust that the people are disgusted and they know best. But, do I trust the candidate to fend off the opposition in the general election when attack ads, and lies will muddy the waters and sway voters away from ideal candidates?
Sadly true. Party control is an issue in both parties that can overwhelm the refreshing voice of true reformers.
If you live under some weird illusion that the private sector is good and your government is bad. Most likely – you have it wrong. Stop, think about how the private sector runs to the government every time they screw things up. Think about who funds the government – we do. Who bails out big banks, big insurance, big Wall Street, big private sector everything – we do. Who is getting short end of the straw? We are.
Example: “The Antares rocket supplied by contractor Orbital Sciences blew up moments after liftoff at NASA’s space launch facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, the space agency said:
“The explosion destroyed the rocket and spacecraft and immediately raised questions about the future of NASA’s reliance on private commercial ventures to carry vital payloads into space to supply and support the orbiting space station.”
This “private launch” cost us $200.000.000! It is the third such costly failure. How much
more of this nonsense should we allow before we wake up to the fact that we are being
used. PRIVATIZATION IS NOT WHAT HAS MADE THIS COUNTRY GREAT – WHAT HAS MADE AMERICA GREAT IS SOCIAL PROGRAMS THAT HAVE WORKED TO HELP BUILD A STRONG, WORKING MIDDLE CLASS, OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, AND THE AMERICAN WORKER – ALL ARE IN JEOPARDY.
This is how the private sector works: (St. Louis Post Dispatch) “The natural speculation is that UnitedHealthCare is hiding behind the ACA to boost its profits. In a letter to UnitedHealthCare CEO Stephen Hemsley (2010-2013 total compensation: $212 million) last spring, Thomas L. Holloway, executive vice president of the Missouri Medical Association, suggested the company is “cherry-picking … targeting the sickest, most costly patients and summarily terminating the physicians.”
What is really sad is during the last 20 years, the United States has finally socialized risk, but
privatized profit. Check out this link to read all about it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-feige/socializing-risk-privatiz_b_129281.html
Let’s think about ourselves on election day:
VOTE FOR AMERICA – VOTE FOR OUR CHILDREN – VOTE FOR YOURSELF – BUT VOTE
Yes, let’s take back our Government – (key words – let'”US” and “OUR”) Aren’t you tired of the few profiting from OUR tax dollars. How about taking a moment to remember when we had the “Greatest Generation” and how there was a growing and prosperous middle class. There was government and there was private sector jobs. There was socialization where it was needed. No merger wars and huge monopolies without regulations. It worked so well – shared prosperity. Mostly gone now – but still time to take it back.
STOP THE PRIVATIZATION OF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS – REELECT TOM TORLAKSON
GET CONTROL OF YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS – YES ON PROP 45
NO ON PROP 46
REELECT DAVE JONES-ELECT ART MOORE.
But, above all, don’t squander one of our most precious rights, get out and vote.
Que Sera, Sera... Whatever Will Be, Will Be... 