Your Right and Duty to Vote
We are told in America that we should all participate in our government and vote. Recently we saw in Iraq they had a bigger voter turn out than we did in America. And they risked their lives to do it too. In a think tank conversation discussion the future of American Politics one member when discussing the right and duty of all Americans to vote and be involved in their government said”
“Why should people get involved in participating in a lie? It’s all bull. The government does not listen; they do no longer need the people. Voting is a waste of time, because your intelligent vote is cancelled out by a TV watching cranial capacity lacking turned off individual who has surrendered their mind to the nightly news.”
This is a very heavy statement and many cynics do think like this, even very intelligent ones so something needs to be done to re-align folks to have trust in their government and the voting process. Some believe that the mass media hysteria creates a mob mentality and that the masses are a mob.
Further they believe that this so-called “mob” should not run the government, that they cannot be trusted. Perhaps this is why we have a Republic. Some political science theorists believe that pure democracies do not work, (they turn socialist, which leads to disaster) because people keep voting for free services from the government rather than being empowered to create opportunity and get those things for themselves and their families.
Indeed we must observe that as great as we are there is a growing mistrust in our government, the voting process, the lobbyists, ethics of politicians and the entire system as a whole. It would behoove America and her government to consider this in 2006.
Americans Can Revolt Every Two Years – Vote For the Right Person
There is the belief amongst Americans that it is okay to give up certain liberties in exchange for security. So long as we are alive, it is okay for the government to spy on us, to take away some of rights, and slowly creep towards tyranny. Why? So long as we are safe and not attacked, who needs attacked, right?
Wrong.
As one person once put it, “I’d rather be dead than living under the shackles of tyranny.” Fortunately, there is a way for you to revolt against the government without having to raise arms against them. As another person put it, “revolting against the government is impossible – They have tanks and helicopters.” Just because you are not revolting like the founding fathers did, you are still able to revolt.
Because of our right to vote for people that we want, the politicians have to live in fear of losing their job. We are the people that have the power to give and take the jobs from our representatives. The unfortunate thing is: we forget that we have that power. So, rather than doing anything about it, we just grow complacent and allow politicians to do as they please.
If we, as a nation, dislike the current government, we can vote someone else in. Every two years, every Representative has to run for election again. Their job is, technically, in our hands.
40 Years Ago Black Americans Won The Right To Vote – Now They Must Win The Right To Be President
By January 2009, after Barack Obama had occupied the office of the US Presidency for less than 30 days, a rowdy group of white Americans sponsoring a message of hate unveiled a billboard featuring the President’s image next to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin. They were calling themselves the “Tea Party” and vowed to “take back” their country.
Politicians and political pundits who had said Barack Obama could never become president, were the same ones who later said he as president was trying to do too much, too fast. Shock radio host Rush Limbaugh called the president a “racist,” and challenged him to a debate; Limbaugh’s TV counterpart, Glenn Beck, questioned the President’s citizenship and said Obama hates white people.
The Republican Party out of its need to create an air of legitimacy changed from racial slurs to attacks on the President’s policies. The Tea Party movement, which was in part founded by a major news network and funded by Wall Street interests, held rallies, took over town hall meetings echoing the GOP’s pro Wall Street agenda as economic remedies.
Despite ongoing media attacks and GOP obstructionist tactics to disrupt efforts of the Democratic Party to rescue the economy and address some of the causes that led to its near demise, President Obama went on to pass several pieces of major legislation including healthcare reform which emphasized early prevention by providing free preventive care — mammograms, colonoscopies, immunizations, and pre-natal.
Previous House Speaker, John Boehner, who had lost his seat to Nancy Pelosi, vowed to get it back during the midterm elections. The GOP was not only talking about repealing the new health reform, but phasing out fundamental programs like Social Security and Medicare as being too costly. They were said to have put all their chips in the basket of one man: Congressman John Boehner.
Nevada Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle, seeking to unseat Senate Speaker Harry Reid, likewise called for phasing out Social Security and Medicare, and also promised an end to maternity coverage. She even made veiled threats against Reid, saying that the work of the Democratic Congress might require “Second Amendment remedies,” an obvious reference to the Constitutional Right for a citizen to bare arms and overthrow a government they felt was not representative of their interests.
Tea Party candidate Pat Toomey, running for Senate in Pennsylvania on the pro business ticket, wanted to de-regulate Big Oil and open up our national parks and the Great Lakes for drilling as Obama was calling for less dependency on oil and greater development of green energy technology.
Christine O’Donnell, vying for Delaware Senate seat wasn’t just an opponent of health reform — she even helped spread the “death panels” lies — that the health care reform bill was a ruse to murder-off elder citizens. Because Wall Street owned media took the false information and ran with it, many supporters of the healthcare legislation became suspicious of it and wavered in their support.
GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann said President Obama is turning America into “a nation of slaves.” GOP candidate Rand Paul vowed that if elected he would tie up funds for Obama’s programs. Some Republican leaders had even threatened to shut down the government to get their way — a heartless move that would hold Social Security checks hostage and shut down veterans’ hospitals across the country.
Unidentified special interests and foreign organizations poured hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to help Republicans take over both Houses and make Boehner Speaker. Millions more came from anonymous GOP “donors” in the form of vicious TV ads and shadowy robo-calls.
Boehner called an emergency measure by the President to save police, fire fighter and teacher jobs a “bailout” and a “handout.” He referred to the “government jobs” as “special interests.” Every House Republican voted no in a futile attempt to veto it — not because it wasn’t the right thing to do, but because it would have made the president “look good.”
In all the Republican Senate suppressed 424 bills from consideration by that body after they had been passed by the Democratic Congress, it also upheld other job creating legislation by sustaining 128 filibusters. It’s easy to see why these special interests picked John Boehner. He teamed up with financial lobbyists to do everything he could to stall the Wall Street Reform Act and even took time before the vote on health reform to scream “Hell no!” over and over again from the podium.
Boehner is the congressman who first made national news 14 years ago when he was caught handing out checks from influence-buying tobacco lobbyists on the House floor. At the time, Boehner said he did nothing wrong — he was simply helping out his lobbyist friends.
Perhaps today Boehner will tell you he’s merely helping out his Wall Street friends.