Alan Grayson recently asked me to contribute this is what I gave him.
Howdy Alan, I enjoyed many of the issues you brought up while working for our government you did good but lets be realistic our road into the future is already paved and will go according to plan and it does not include justice for “we the people” in any way shape or form. Fighting this heavy tide of corruption from the inside is not going to bring positive results it is a waste of your time and money, does this sound overly pessimistic I only wish it were so.
The entrenched forces that control our government will not be moved, BIG money talks and you will never have enough to sway things in the people’s direction, sorry to bring it up but that’s the way I see things. As it is the democrats are nearly as bad as the republicans so what is the point in supporting tainted goods when all we get from it is more wars and more corruption in high places from either party.
Joining the establishment to fight the establishment is a contradiction and will only lead to nowhere fast on a rail and the attendant heartbreak. Our empire is crumbling and propping it up will only delay the inevitable, perhaps it is best to let it fall in it’s own good time and be done with it.
Capitalism has failed the people of this country and created its own form of aristocracy, an aristocracy of riches, human nature is what it is and when greed is put in the drivers seat a better vision is suffocated and left for dead on the side of the road time after time. Capitalism seems to have had a side effect and that is the love of money as the bottom line and that love of money has lowered our standards, our ethics, and our personal morality all to reach for the golden ring of materialism or am I missing something?
Our love of money has destroyed our government, our arts and our self image we are encouraged to lie and steal just to keep up with the fabled Jones’s because of course they started it. So now it is imperative to cheat as an athlete just to remain competitive, now being an actor requires lots of surgical cheating to keep up the illusion of beauty and of course the same applies to business; if you don’t cheat your competitors will and then where are you?
We have become a corrupted society from up to down and back, we all do it, we live it every day and have adapted to our lesser of two evils way of life but we still end up with evil whichever way we vote or look I’m afraid. Being the lone voice of sanity is an interesting gig I’m sure but effective it is not; you will always be smothered by the madness of the mob. I like what Bernie Sanders has to say but I don’t see a significant number of his colleagues ever allowing his influence to go beyond tokenism.
I believe you are sincere and can have an influence for the better I just think your voice might be louder and clearer coming from outside the establishment; why join the other crooks in the gutter covered with all that blood money and tainted with the slobber of the dogs of war. You can’t beat them by joining them so please consider another tactic if you really want to help we the people because as it is we are getting the proverbial shaft.