Last night, the Democratic Debate, hosted in New Hampshire, presented a clear contrast between the country the Republican party seeks to restore; which are the policies of the past. Whereas the Democratic party wants to move forward with the progress, we've made with health care reform, criminal justice reform, and building an America which is based on people having a voice in their country again. In many previous elections, officials promised things they couldn't possibly deliver. For example, free education, free college tuition that is an unlikely reasonable promise, which isn't to say it's unattainable. Because it is but the fat cat billionaire class will never okay Congress raising their taxes to invest in the future of America; you see the system wouldn't be rigged if we all truly had a shot at an equal opportunity. While it is true, many people don't believe we all deserve the same chance to reach the God-given potential God placed in the hearts of His people, it doesn't make a difference if you have no political pull to swing the pendulum in the favor of the American people. You see, to maintain political supremacy, their class warfare is essential because while we fight each other and even shake a closed fist in the poorest, most vulnerable Americans destitute faces, we'll never notice the rich taking huge taxpayer subsidies while complaining about welfare and the lazy minorities. By the way, we spend far more on corporate welfare than social welfare. So, billionaires are the biggest recipients of welfare, not the poor. The truth is the priorities of those at the top have no bounds of reason in that, for example, the defense contractors don't care how many illegal wars we wage because either way they see the prosperity, and the poor receive dead soldiers in the name of freedom. Nothing in the conservative worshiped U.S. Constitution mentions kids dying for oil, regime change, pre-emptive war, enforcing American democracy throughout a region we, clearly, don't understand. We place a hand over a beating heart to the National Anthem; as if we're living up to the values of the men and women who died for true American freedom. Although I dislike the phrase "roll in their graves," here it makes sense the soldiers of wars past would roll in their graves should they see what the government is doing today in the name of freedom of National Security.
"Tens of millions of people in the United States are living their lives below the first threshold. The economic gap has been widening, denying millions of people a respectable life. Speaking about the widening economic gaps in the United States in July 2013, President Obama pointed out that the American middle class has hardly experienced any significant wage increase over the preceding decade, and that the "American dream" is turning into a myth.Statistics indicates the huge gap between the average incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans versus the remaining 99 percent: $1,303,198 versus $43,713, a gap of roughly 30 to 1. In 1950, the top 1 percent received only 5 percent of the total income produced during the economic expansion. The top 1 percent now receives 95 percent." (1).
"Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups and Average Citizens,” researchers compared 1,800 different U.S. policies that were put in place by politicians between 1981 and 2002 to the type of policies preferred by the average and wealthy American, or special interest groups.Researchers then concluded that U.S. policies are formed more by special interest groups than by politicians properly representing the will of the general people, including the lower-income class." (2) “The central point that emerges from our research is that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence,” the study found."(3).
"While multiple black defendants were reportedly accusing local police of widespread evidence planting as far back as 1996, the department allegedly ignored complaints from white officers when they began to surface two years later. A group of more than a dozen officers were told about the internal affairs probe into allegations of false arrests and evidence-planting, as seen in the document below. Most of them failed a subsequent polygraph test."(4).
Maybe one-day democracy will return to American, but until then, we should shut up about other countries.
Cite
1). Cheryl K. Chumley. (21 April 2014). America is an oligarchy, not a democracy or republic, university study finds.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/21/americas-oligarchy-not-democracy-or-republic-unive/Washington Times.
2). Akbar Ganji (8 August 2015). The Transformation of American Democracy to Oligarchy. Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/akbar-ganji/the-transformation-of-ame_1_b_7945040.html
Reference.
3). Zachary Davies Doren. (16 April 2014). Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy. Business Insider. http://www.businessinsider.com/major-study-finds-that-the-us-is-an-oligarchy-2014-4
4). Artuto Gracia. (1 Dec. 2015). Bombshell: Alabama cops systematically framed blacks by planting drugs and guns for decades. Raw Story. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/bombshell-alabama-cops-systematically-framed-blacks-by-planting-drugs-and-guns-for-decades/
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