20
Nov

Editorial: America’s Being Held Hostage

Step right up to the greatest
sham on earth, two-party
politics. It’s like a choice
between aspirin or cod liver oil.
Both are unpalatable to the stomach.
America has become a side
joke of gridlock, special interest
groups and servants for the rich,
well-connected and corporate.
Independents and moderates
have no place in politics anymore;
we are today held hostage by the
religious right, who want to spy on
us and legislate morality, or the far left, who want
us to hold hands and eat granola bars.
From Clinton to Bush to our current president,
who all ran campaigns on bipartisanship and working
together by kicking lobbyists out of the room,
our leaders suddenly become agents for them once
they get elected.
Our forefathers must be puking in their tombstones
at what democracy has become. It is no
longer an experiment of majority opinion and consensus.
It has become a system of “robbing hood”
economics by robbing the middle class and the
poor and writing checks to the wealthy CEOs after
they loot the till.
I, as a moderate, am tired of our current mayor,
who ran as a progressive and governs like an agent
for the conservative right wing of the Republican
Party. To our current president, who ran on change
we can believe in, to believing in Bank of America,
Wells Fargo and other Fortune 500 companies, I,
as an American, am tired of a political system that
doesn’t speak out for the little guy.
I truly believe we can save this fantasy we call democracy,
where we don’t have fundamental rights
like universal healthcare, a right to eat and a right to
shelter. We, as Americans, have to change the way
politics is done in Washington. The greatest myth is
the two-party system, which I believe is corrupted
by special interests, and self-serving politicians,
no matter how good they babble, need to form different
parties that truly adhere to the principles of
democracy and that are not run by a big lobbyist.
Independents and moderates need to take
America back by forming new parties and sending a
message to Washington that what is going on is not
acceptable. We need to again go to the days when
country politicians can work their way through
America and bring real change.
Today’s politicians behave like aristocrats and
barons who have no concern for the welfare of the
people whom they represent.
The system is broken, but I hope in my lifetime
it could be fixed.
Jeffery has been a vendor for two years and recently
moved into his own apartment.

By Jeffery McNeill

Step right up to the greatest sham on earth, two-party politics. It’s like a choice between aspirin or cod liver oil. Both are unpalatable to the stomach. America has become a side joke of gridlock, special interest groups and servants for the rich,

well-connected and corporate.

Independents and moderates have no place in politics anymore; we are today held hostage by the religious right, who want to spy on us and legislate morality, or the far left, who want us to hold hands and eat granola bars.

From Clinton to Bush to our current president, who all ran campaigns on bipartisanship and working together by kicking lobbyists out of the room, our leaders suddenly become agents for them once they get elected.

Our forefathers must be puking in their tombstones at what democracy has become. It is no longer an experiment of majority opinion and consensus.

It has become a system of “robbing hood” economics by robbing the middle class and the poor and writing checks to the wealthy CEOs after they loot the till.

I, as a moderate, am tired of our current mayor, who ran as a progressive and governs like an agent for the conservative right wing of the Republican Party. To our current president, who ran on change we can believe in, to believing in Bank of America,

Wells Fargo and other Fortune 500 companies, I, as an American, am tired of a political system that doesn’t speak out for the little guy.

I truly believe we can save this fantasy we call democracy, where we don’t have fundamental rights like universal healthcare, a right to eat and a right to shelter. We, as Americans, have to change the way politics is done in Washington. The greatest myth is

the two-party system, which I believe is corrupted by special interests, and self-serving politicians, no matter how good they babble, need to form different parties that truly adhere to the principles of democracy and that are not run by a big lobbyist.

Independents and moderates need to take America back by forming new parties and sending a message to Washington that what is going on is not acceptable. We need to again go to the days when country politicians can work their way through America and bring real change.

Today’s politicians behave like aristocrats and barons who have no concern for the welfare of the people whom they represent.

The system is broken, but I hope in my lifetime it could be fixed.

Jeffery has been a vendor for two years and recently moved into his own apartment.

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