As an independent voter who has been following the circus that is the Republican nominee process, I've found that I really only like one member of that field, and it's Ron Paul. He's the most consistent of them who makes the most sense, and actually will answer a question that is posed to him directly. Unlike all of the other candidates for the Republican nomination, he doesn't stay with the party's talking points, and hasn't had some jaded past where he has groped someone in a car, hired a dubious groundskeeper, or become the definition for a mixture of lubricant and fecal matter. He doesn't have a spouse that runs a farcical treatment for homosexuals, nor has he brought a significant amount of baggage into this campaign from his previous political career. Granted, his ideals of an isolationist America that is concentrated on the rights of the States is rather 1776, but do we really need to maintain this corporate status quo that we've been living under for the last 20 years? I don't know if Ron Paul is really the answer that this country needs right now, but I know that none of the other field of candidates who have a snowballs chance in hell of unseating President Barak Obama are worthy of assuming that title from him.
We have been in the midst of a vile political climate for a while now, that would rather we just grant carte blance to Big Business no matter the cost to each of us who are struggling every day to maintain our own status quo of existence. The costs of our daily lives have increased as a result of our complacency, its harder to put a loaf of bread on our counters, or a carton of eggs in our fridges, and that's not to mention how much more difficult it is simply to get to whatever job we're lucky enough to have in this day and age. We simply can't carry on the way we've been going where we pander to a select group of companies and individuals who seem all to happy to deprive us of the very luxuries that they enjoy on a daily basis.
I've not written this as any encouragement to vote for Ron Paul, but he really is the only logical choice for a significant change in the ideology that has dragged this country down into the sewer that it is in today.
Further, Barak Obama has had a difficult mantle to assume. I will publicly grant that to him. He has faced hostile Republican Congress that has publicly proclaimed that they want him to be a one-term President. So, it has been difficult for his Presidency to really embrace the "Hope for Change" that his campaign sought in it's infancy. But, from my observation I've had to ask myself often, has he really done enough to face that conflict head-on like he should have as the head of the Executive branch of our government? He had ample opportunity to make those changes, and promulgate the HOPE that he gained the office of President, and each time in his presidency, he fell short. Perhaps he was captured between a rock and a hard place, perhaps he was limited by position, politic, or some lobbyist pledge. I don't know. Who the fuck am I to know this? But, through my own observations of his Presidency, it isn't until recently where he has taken advantage of his office to make the wave of hope that got him elected a reality have I seen any worth in my part in getting him elected to that post. If only he would have been working for typical Americans like myself over the four years he has enjoyed as President, I might not now be considering a replacement for his job as a voter in this democracy.
Honestly, I feel that it is well past time for change. We need a drastic renovation of this political system. That needs to begin with the removal from all corporate influence of any kind upon our government. I seriously doubt that any of the framers of the great document which we base our democracy upon had in mind that one day the government they envisioned would someday be tasked with regulating the fish in the seas, the life in a woman's womb, or the plants which grow upon the Earth. Provide for the common good, I don't see the US government providing for the common good for all of the equally created men(and women) upon this great continent any more in this system. Instead, it has become a business that makes cuts where the common good is concerned and allows businesses to put that common good at risk with water that is flammable.
We are well past 'Hoping for Change'. America is in a predicament now. It has reached a fever pitch that is set to explode, be shaken apart through fracking related earthquakes, or to be pepper-sprayed in the face of it's freedoms. It's well past time that we awake from our complacency and make some drastic alterations in our systematic disregard for the freedoms that we embraced as a nation 235 years ago.
We have been in the midst of a vile political climate for a while now, that would rather we just grant carte blance to Big Business no matter the cost to each of us who are struggling every day to maintain our own status quo of existence. The costs of our daily lives have increased as a result of our complacency, its harder to put a loaf of bread on our counters, or a carton of eggs in our fridges, and that's not to mention how much more difficult it is simply to get to whatever job we're lucky enough to have in this day and age. We simply can't carry on the way we've been going where we pander to a select group of companies and individuals who seem all to happy to deprive us of the very luxuries that they enjoy on a daily basis.
I've not written this as any encouragement to vote for Ron Paul, but he really is the only logical choice for a significant change in the ideology that has dragged this country down into the sewer that it is in today.
Further, Barak Obama has had a difficult mantle to assume. I will publicly grant that to him. He has faced hostile Republican Congress that has publicly proclaimed that they want him to be a one-term President. So, it has been difficult for his Presidency to really embrace the "Hope for Change" that his campaign sought in it's infancy. But, from my observation I've had to ask myself often, has he really done enough to face that conflict head-on like he should have as the head of the Executive branch of our government? He had ample opportunity to make those changes, and promulgate the HOPE that he gained the office of President, and each time in his presidency, he fell short. Perhaps he was captured between a rock and a hard place, perhaps he was limited by position, politic, or some lobbyist pledge. I don't know. Who the fuck am I to know this? But, through my own observations of his Presidency, it isn't until recently where he has taken advantage of his office to make the wave of hope that got him elected a reality have I seen any worth in my part in getting him elected to that post. If only he would have been working for typical Americans like myself over the four years he has enjoyed as President, I might not now be considering a replacement for his job as a voter in this democracy.
Honestly, I feel that it is well past time for change. We need a drastic renovation of this political system. That needs to begin with the removal from all corporate influence of any kind upon our government. I seriously doubt that any of the framers of the great document which we base our democracy upon had in mind that one day the government they envisioned would someday be tasked with regulating the fish in the seas, the life in a woman's womb, or the plants which grow upon the Earth. Provide for the common good, I don't see the US government providing for the common good for all of the equally created men(and women) upon this great continent any more in this system. Instead, it has become a business that makes cuts where the common good is concerned and allows businesses to put that common good at risk with water that is flammable.
We are well past 'Hoping for Change'. America is in a predicament now. It has reached a fever pitch that is set to explode, be shaken apart through fracking related earthquakes, or to be pepper-sprayed in the face of it's freedoms. It's well past time that we awake from our complacency and make some drastic alterations in our systematic disregard for the freedoms that we embraced as a nation 235 years ago.
