Tom
An Old Friend
Wrote a Facebook Status:
I said:In September of 1882, Edison opened the Pearl Street Power Station in New York City. At that time, the company had the power of ZERO votes. It did not influence the fate of the American people in politics.
Today, We the People allow mega corporations to not only affect our elections but also influence laws and legislation. They still have the power of ZERO votes but we have given them power over us anyway.
As a citizen of The UNITED States of America, You have the same power in your vote as the President. People have forgotten that. If we allow the powerful (that we have allowed to be powerful) to influence our vote we give our power to them.
In the past, Politicians have learned that they can lie, cheat and scam the American people. We the People have limited our choices of representatives to the most effective liars, cheats and scammers. We delude ourselves into thinking those people that actually only have the power of ONE vote are somehow our best choices for representation.
Our elections are limited to determining which politician is least derelict. When you have a basket of rotten apples you throw the whole thing away. Our country is RULED by rotten apples. The fact that some of those apples are not as rotten as others should not detract from the fact that all the apples are rotten. We need to pick apples that are healthy and fresh. We need candidates that can represent all the people of the nation equally. We the People cannot effectively pick from a tree that has all rotten apples.
We need to stop allowing rotten apples to represent us. The only way to do this is to stop supporting a candidate as soon as they indicate behavior that is not in alignment with the morals of We the People. We need to Fire any person elected to represent us that is not in alignment with our wishes. Not to, is insanity.
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