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To hell with Republicans. They are insane imperialist slogan-chanters. To hell with Democrats. They are insane bleeding-heart snobs. And the leaders of both parties care nothing about what really ails the American people.
They care about what their special interest cronies care about: how policy will affect Corporate America, and Wall St.
But President Obama was right about one thing. Change is coming, make no mistake. Maybe not the change he had envisioned low those many months ago, but change is definitely in the air.
America is waking up to the fact that their beloved two-party political system is a sham. And the leaders of both the fat elephants and the jack-asses have only themselves to blame. Over the past few decades both Republican and Democratic leaders have thoroughly abused the American people, both figuratively and literally. They've exploited our ignorance of policy details; of how Washington really works; and they've flourished during a time when the average American has lost their valuable "leisure time," with longer work days for stagnating pay coupled with the mad scramble to provide for our families, and the inexplicable "need" to "consume" on the latest and greatest toys. This perversity of the American Dream has left us with the subsequent inability to concentrate fully on what exactly our leaders are doing to us.
In essence, our leaders are cutting us off at the knees while we desperately reach upward.
We are the punch-drunk prizefighter scraping for an edge, even though, in our hearts, we know the fight is rigged. So we cannibalize on the only commodity that gives us a puncher's chance: those worse off than us. It's Poor vs. Poorer in the American Battle Royal, with Repub-ocrat Senator/Congressman Don King calling the shots and keeping our winnings.
Case in point: In July of this year Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced an amendment to the House Committee on Education and Labor to allow individual states to create a single-payer health care system. It passed, 27 – 19. Yet it was stripped from the health care bill that is now being so roundly applauded by the bought-and-sold Democrats. You know, the "historical" health care bill that may include a public option to provide coverage for an undetermined number of people in undetermined parts of the country, unless of course those states decide to "opt out" altogether. In fact, President Obama, King of Health Care Reform, apparently told the House Committee on Education and Labor chairman, George Miller, to oppose Kucinich's state-level single-payer system amendment.
How's that for change we can believe in?