There
is a large element of Democratic and Republican voters in this country who feel
betrayed by their parties. Trump and Hillary and their handlers and the
establishment big shots in both parties seem oblivious to this fact.
Yes, this is a great country and all of that. But folks, our political system is
tragically, disastrously broken. It does not represent the majority of our
citizens. Anyone who cannot see that is simply living in some kind of
unyielding denial.
I
don’t know what will happen in the Republican Party. Their convention this
summer will likely be a hot mess. But I can assure you, with all of the
condescending calls from Hillary’s cheerleaders to dismiss Bernie supporters,
the Democratic convention will be no less chaotic. All the pundits have
declared her the nominee and many even the president. To discount so many with
that kind of disdainfulness may very well create shocking consequences at the
convention.
There
are groups of people in America who have known and still know something about
oppression: the Black community; Latinos; Gays; Women; the poor; War Veterans;
the disabled. Oppression of any measure humiliates and stifles a person’s sense
of self. It shuts people out. It ignores their most pressing needs. It mocks
their calls for help. It fosters unrest and violence.
Our
current political system is an oppressive system for millions of Americans. It
is run by men and women who have sold any amount of integrity they may have
possessed to a system of bribery and utter corruption. Their dereliction of
duty is not condemned it is instead purchased and rewarded as payment for doing
the bidding of venal, abusive, amoral villains dressed in expensive suits and
sitting in the highest places of finance, military defense, and corporate
America. These people run the nation and have no interest in the millions of
citizens they intentionally keep beneath them.
Because
we have this obsession with being superior, with having it all; because we want
what celebrities have; because we hate change; because we are afraid; we have
then forsaken the values that made us pioneers, explorers, inventors, poets and
dreamers, and we have grown shallow, lazy, small-minded, crude, stingy and
vulgar.
Hillary
Clinton and Donald Trump exemplify our moral shame which many of us have yet to
even sense much less own. We as a nation are so consumed with the superficial
and the platitudinous, with toys and trinkets, with gold and silver, with instant
pleasure and ethical disregard, that we have become unrecognizable as a people
of virtue, courage, dignity and intelligence.
The
idea that Hillary Clinton is far superior to Donald Trump is a deceit concocted
by corrupt plutocrats who call themselves Democrats and by a media that is so
miserably unprofessional and mercenary they are an embarrassment and a pathetic
insult to thinking people. There is then little light between Clinton and
Trump. They both put their own interests above the needs of the American
people. It’s not about politics for either of them. It’s about personal wealth
and power.
Hillary
and Trump supporters can celebrate all they want. The truth is, we are not the
country we say we are. And neither of them will change that.
©
2016 Timothy Moody
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