The Sage Observer

Election Day is Coming

          We are eight months from Election Day, the day when we will once again go to the polls and vote for our representatives in government. In the world of our democratic republic of the people, by the people, and for the people, this will be a very important day for all of us. On the other hand, however, in reality, rather than this being a day in which the rule of the day is one person, one vote, it will be a day when the rule of the day will be one dollar one vote. Rather than this really being a vote of the people, it will, in effect, be an election bought and paid for by the Corporatocracy and the Poser Elite, those who really presently govern our country–our de facto Shadow Government. Don’t tell me this isn’t true. Don’t tell me this is some conspiracy theory. This is a fact. To see the truth in this, just take off your blinders. Ask yourself. Who is paying for these elections? Don’t tell me what I said isn’t true.

          Around and around we go, where we’ll stop, nobody knows. On the stage below, are the actors, the political candidates for office whom we elect to govern us.

On the Right are the pseudo conservatives who proclaim to represent us–the people, when, in reality, they represent only the interests of the rich and powerful in their quest for even more wealth and greater power. This is the way they have been forever. Everybody surely knows that. They are supported in their effort by those who, with their lack of knowledge, and, in their ignorance, identify with them, erroneously thinking they are on the same track when in fact they are only satchel carriers. In short, if you ain't rich the right doesn't support you. They work only for their kind, the Corporatocracy and Power Elite, our real government, our Shadow Government. Face it. You aren't one of them. You aren't a millionaire. They don’t represent your interests what they say notwithstanding. They are taking for themselves the bulk of our annual national income and wealth.

On the Left are the pseudo liberals, the so-called progressives, who profess to represent the people. They, too, are supported in their effort by those who identify with them and their efforts–those in the lower classes of the populace, the middleclass, the poor, and the disadvantaged. I sincerely believe this is what they surely want to do. I believe they are sincere in their efforts. This is the purpose for which they stand. Herein lays a glitch, however. They too are caught up in the net of the rich and powerful. They, too, are trapped by the power of money. They, too, have sold their souls. As you do before crossing the street, stop, look, and listen. Isn't this what you see?

When the liberals came into office, January, 2009, they inherited the greatest economic and financial collapse since 1929, the largest national debt in the history of mankind, a commensurate national deficit, and two foreign wars, which, by the time all accounts are settled, will have cost somewhere in the area of three trillion dollars. In conjunction with this, there was approximately twenty million of our people unemployed or underemployed, unable to find a job anywhere, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of whom were hungry, in foreclosure or “underwater’ in their mortgages, sleeping in their cars, under bridges, or on the streets. I must, also, point out that twenty million persons were in our prisons. I must surely have left something out, but I’ll stop there. I’m sorry, but the Right left office with our nation in the worst mess in our history, an inkblot that will disgrace us for years to come. The only thing that saved us from falling into a deep depression equal to or worse than that in the 1930’s were the safety nets of Social Security, healthcare, unemployment, food stamps–programs some of which begun back with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Thankfully, people have a propensity to forget; and, in a generation or two, perhaps it will be behind us. Perhaps we will once again have the reputation of a great nation.

In light of this, I will dare to say that when our people elected President Barrack Obama to office, they were looking for a change. They were looking for honesty, integrity, and transparency in office. They were looking for an end to war, torture, spying, and oppressive government. They were looking for recovery from our depression. They were looking for affordable healthcare. There is probably more, but it just won’t come to my mind for the present. That, in my mind is what we were looking for. What did we get?

From my point of view, I saw President Obama come into office picking up right where President Bush left off–the Patriot Act, the NSA (National Security Agency), secrecy and lack of transparency, an expensive overfunded Department of Defense without a balanceable and auditable accounting system and state of the art computer systems, etc…. Instead of a national single payer healthcare system, affordable to all with strict cost controls, we got the Affordable Care Act, an unaffordable, immensely complicated system beyond the comprehension of the average person–an excessively expensive monster, which I believe will ultimately collapse of its own weight. In addition, our nation where the rich are constantly getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer was rapidly going downhill economically, destroying our middleclass, and replacing our labor with slave labor abroad. If you don’t see this outsourcing as slave labor, imagine in your mind’s eye how you would view those people if you brought them as they are to our country to work alongside our people. I daresay it wouldn’t take you long to look at them and see them for what they really are, slaves. At this point in my discussion, you must surely see that the Left, the party of the people has not, in reality, been a party of the people. Rather, as with the Right, the Left has been a representative of the rich.

Way up above the stage in the rafters is our Shadow Government which really pulls the strings and governs over all of us, their strings extending down below to the stage, attached to and controlling both parties, the Right and the Left, in our pseudo government which we elect and which is supposed to govern us, our nation–the government established by our Constitution. Why is this condition allowed to happen in our democratic republic, a democracy of the people, by the people, and for the people? The answer is money. As I said above, instead of one person one vote, we have one dollar, one vote. In effect, our elected representatives have sold out to the Corporatocracy and Power Elite, our Shadow Government, which finances our elections. I understand that our elected representatives spend four hours of every day soliciting funds from the rich and business interests. I have heard that publicly reported. Also, our illustrious Supreme Court of the United States of America has ordained, in effect, that Corporations are people with the same right of free speech and expression as you. They can contribute all the money they wish to political campaigns with impunity; and, under certain conditions, they can even keep their contributions secret. Do you have that right? I don’t think so. Check it out. Up to now, I thought only God made people, but I guess that was before  SCOTUS. One last comment on campaign financing is the impact of the so called revolving doors between business and moneyed interests through which our elected officials continuously travel, enriching their selves.

One last comment is that massive amounts of money are spent by these moneyed interests in our political campaigns, spreading misinformation, propaganda, mind control, and persuasion. If you think about it you know this without me telling you. You see this type of marketing and thought control every time you go to the supermarket or go online to buy product. Not only are you faced with all the marketing techniques, they profile your every behavior, your likes, dislikes, desires, etc. Such is also true of our politicians. I've said enough. You know this is true. You know I’m right. The question is what we do about it.

My answer to you is that one party is completely unqualified to govern this country. Not only have they almost destroyed our nation, but the direction in which they wish to lead us is not in the interests of the people. They want a nation governed by a Corporatocracy and Power Elite. If we follow their lead to its ultimate conclusion, we will, for the most part, be part of the underclass. Again, if you don’t believe me, you have only to look at trends in income, wealth, and jobs. That party is unelectable. For me, that will be forever. I want my country to be a democracy not a vassal of the rich and powerful.

As to the other party, we must get it out from the hands of the rich and powerful, our Shadow Government. We must insure that it is truly a party of the people, working in the interests of the people, a populist party. All must prosper to the fullest extent possible. God made this planet for everybody–not just a fortunate few.

Ronald Miller

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