The Poet Ezra Pound once said ~ The technique of infamy is to invent two lies, then get people arguing heatedly over which one of them is true.
This can be said of Every Issue in American Politics. The leaders put forth two acceptable ideas, and the tv propaganda dutifully repeats the fake debate 24/7 - all the while omitting the true alternative.
Iraq
Acceptable choices: Stay the course, or Redeploy
True Alternative: Bring Home the Troops
Health Care
Fake debate is about how many Americans have insurance
The true alternative is No Insurance period
Everyone is paying higher premiums while an insurance CEO takes $125 million salary [1] - it's greedy rat-bastards like this that are the scourge of America.
The true alternative is returning to a not-for-profit Health Care system.
In the current system, the more Americans that have cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc, the more money the corporations make- that's a bad equation- period.
Campaign-Finance Reform
Phony Politicians debate about soft-money vs hard-money limits
True Alternative: Free Air Time for all candidates on TV/Radio stations that use OUR Public Airwaves
The Drug War
No Choice- major politicians of both parties agree we must continue the drug war
True Alternative: End this War on the People
Bush's 'youthful indiscretions' got him zero jail time. Yet poor teenagers can get several years in prison for the same or lesser crimes. This double standard is disgusting. America became the worlds leading jailer under Clinton and Gore. Prisons for Profit also came into existence on their watch. Another bad equation- the more prisoners we have, the more money Wall St. makes.
Do you remember the vote on Prisons for Profit? There wasn't one. We The People never approved of this disgusting practice. Why do we pay $30,000/yr to lock up American Citizens, when their biggest crime is being poor. $6 x 40hr/wk x 52 weeks = $12,500/yr. Millions have no job, and tens of millions more make close to min. wage- yet we'll pay corporations more than twice that to lock them away.
and on and on...
What America needs is people with common sense, people that recognize it's time to abandon the norm, because that's how we got into this mess.
America needs people like Howard Zinn, Mark Crispin Miller, and YOU to run for Congress [2].
ps- How could I forget the Big Lie that most of America supports Bush, that's why they 'elected' him in 2004. And the Big Lie that it takes millions of dollars to run for Congress. That's a Lie. 50% of Americans don't bother to vote because they're not given a true choice. If We ran for congress [3], and gave the People a true choice, we could win- even without big $$ donors.