Americans Betrayed by Power and Politics:

Our governments, starting from the White House, then trickling down all the way to local state and city governments, Americans have been betrayed.

Americans Betrayed by Power and Politics

Whether your talking about mass firings of federal prosecutors that actually wanted and tried to do their job, to bribing of newspaper columnists and news broadcasts-censoring the information Americans are told, pallets of shrink-wrapped cash (taxpayer money) "misplaced" in Iraq, the discovery that many of Alaska's leading politicians are reportedly on the take, middle class working Americans having to support millions of illegal immigrants, being denied the right to make english our national language (because it offends illegal’s), Americans having to pay substantially more than illegal’s to put our children thru college, or the nauseating suspicion, quickly becoming a certainty that our government deliberately lied us into a pointless catastrophic war, to bailing out greedy and corrupt wall street CEO's. The list of betrayals goes on and on.

Democrats proclaim that the flood of "misgovernment" is just part of a "culture of corruption". Republicans have an even simpler answer: Government failed, they tell us, because it is the nature of government enterprises to fail. Yet in the same breath, they tell us "don't worry" we'll fix it. Even as one massive corruption case after another comes to light, congress, the senate, and white house shrug it off and tell the American people, each is merely a one-of-a-kind moral lapse-unconnected to any particular ideology--an individual bad apple with no effect on the larger barrel. Having said that; we would have to conclude that Americans are having one heck of a streak of bad luck! What a lot of bad apples Washington is growing these days!

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a "true, honest and ethical democracy" because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in our early days of elementary school: that the government exists to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials. We, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, are the government, insisted the title of a civics primer published in the earnest year of 1945.

We were taught that our government belongs to us, the American People, because we are citizens of the United States.

Power and Politics Betraying Americans:

The fact is, whether we are discussing Abramoff, (the lobbyist whose astonishing career as a corruptionist), or the wider tsunami of corruption by Congress, the senate, and the White House, turning Wall Street lose on American consumers, or granting power of the NSA to enter our most personal and private lives for their own twisted amusement, exporting all our jobs over sea’s, jeopardizing our safety by allowing Air Lines to out source maintenance of commercial planes to foreign countries, the truth is as obvious as day light, and yet so obscured by decades of pettifoggery that we find it almost impossible to apprehend clearly the depth of greed and corruption and betrayal of Americans by our government.

Power and Politics using Fear to Betray Americans:

This fantastic misgovernment management we are witnessing today is not an accident, nor is it the work of "a few bad individuals", it is the consequence of triumph by a particular philosophy of government, by a movement that understands the liberal state as a perversion and considers the market the ideal nexus of human society. This movement is friendly to industry not just by force of campaign contributions but by conviction: it believes in entrepreneurship not merely in commerce but in politics; and the inevitable results of its ascendance are, first, the capture of the state by business and, second, all that follows; incompetence, graft, and all the other wretched flotsam that we've come to expect from Washington.

Now, what you’re seeing is the Congress and the Senate are daring the American people to get mad and throw them out. As David Sirota said in his first book, "Hostile Takeover", this isn’t about choosing between Republicans and Democrats; This isn't even about race or gender; this is about a bipartisan power and politics money machine working against the population, working against us, the American people. They’re daring you. They’re daring you to turn out in five weeks and, in essence, support challengers against incumbents, because the incumbents are the ones responsible for the financial crisis we're in right now, and for the staggering and still rising unemployment records.

When you look at the major social indices right now, you see people are really, really angry, and you can see it in the polling, you can see it in market research. And I think what’s really interesting right now is that we’re seeing a level of anger and a level of disaffection not just with the government, but with major institutions in society. Gallup’s poll shows that the anger in the country rivals, in terms of anti-government anger, or dissatisfaction with the government, rivals that of the late 1970s. What’s different is that there is an increase in anger at corporate America, at big business, at banks, at the financial system. And I believe this gives us a real opportunity to take this momentary uprising and explode it into a full-fledged political and social movement.

The danger is, of course, is that the anger could go into a right-wing direction. In the late 1970s, we had a moment where, after Watergate, Jimmy Carter came in, was elected, and his administration didn’t really go anywhere, and the uprising of that post-Watergate era really didn’t end. Instead, it intensified, and Ronald Reagan and the conservative movement came along and took advantage of it and exploded it into the conservative movement that we’re living under today. And so, we’re really at a moment here where it could go in a progressive direction or it could go in a conservative direction.

As Ronald Regan once said: "There are 9 words in the English language that are very dangerous:

Reagan said the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

The point is, America is becoming a 21 century Roman Empire. Think about it; how did the Roman Republic ever evolve into the empire that most of us know it as, with emperors nominating their favorite horse as consul, and the rights of the people were abused and trampled upon? The people of the Roman Republic didn't just wake up one day and have almost no rights, where the emperor was a god and the judicial system corrupt! It was a gradual process, where the rights and freedoms of the people were eroded away over the years.

Is this what politicians are doing now to try to pull the wool over our eyes; to make it seem like they're "one of us", or "plebian", in some sense? We seriously need to wake up people, and see the slow but sure devolution of the Republic that so many sacrificed their lives for. We have to see that our freedoms are slowly slipping away from our fingertips, and to turn off the TV and actually do something about it.

If nothing else we can start on November 4, 2008. Go to the polls and vote. There are 435 seats in the House of Rep. up for grabs. The incumbents need to be elected out of office, choose a challenger. Same for the Senate, 35 seats are up for grabs-time to give the incumbents the boot, and vote in new blood. It is time the American people take control of the government. The elected officials have proven they are not capable, that they are too incompetent and to corrupt. We the American people have to clean house--both houses.

And when we put people in office, we have to hold them accountable. We need to use the rights and powers, few as they may be, to put real leadership back in office. We can do this by voting, and by using our power of impeachment when necessary.

It is absolutely imperative that the American people start holding politicians feet to the fire, and start governing for the people and not for special interest, lobbyist, big business or banking institutions.