Ravenpro2448

The government we deserve

 

With the polls closed in the northeast Hillary is most likely going to be the Democratic party’s nominee to run against, most likely, Donald Trump.  I for one can’t imagine a scenario worse for our country than what will be the 2016 general election.

The republicans are going to nominate a complete and total clown. He is a racist, a xenophobe, and has absolutely zero policy specific plan to better this country. If, somehow, Cleveland Ohio survives the riots that will ensue if this ass hat isn’t nominated and someone else is nominated I don’t believe the republican party has waiting in the wings anyone that will be any better on policy than Trump, and he has no policy. The worst case on the republican side is that Kasich, who is currently beating Hillary in the national poles, is handed the nomination. This is a man that has defunded Planned Parenthood in Ohio and is just slightly right of Hillary. Ted Cruz, who claims to be a constitutionalist, believes his religion trumps your rights when it comes to homosexuality, trans-gender, and even being an atheist.

On the Democratic side the choice is an establishment corporate shill that has been bought and paid for by wall street banks and other big money donors. She is not going to help save our environment by banning fracking, she is not going to fight for healthcare as a right, she will not fight to overturn citizens united, she is not going to help our children get better educations without being in debt that they can never get out from under, she will increase our presence in the middle east needlessly putting more of our troops in harm’s way and continuing the quagmire we are currently in, she will side solely with Israel rather than looking for a fair 2 state deal that is needed to bring peace to the region.

Maybe we deserve Trump! If the general public is stupid enough to vote for this man, maybe we deserve it. Maybe we deserve a man that will build a wall and spend billions trying to deport millions of hard working immigrants.  Maybe we deserve a candidate that will alienate an entire religion across the world with his ban on them coming into our country regardless of the fact there are millions of Muslims in this country that share our concerns about extremists. Maybe we deserve to be forced back to the segregation of the 50’s and 60’s. Maybe we deserve a president that will bring back the torture of innocent detainees and the murder of the innocent families of terrorists. Or maybe we deserve the incremental change from the big bank bought candidate the Democrats are offering us.

We allow our votes to be ignored. We allow millions in the state of New York to not be heard and not allowed to vote. We allow the poll times to be changed, the polling places to be moved, the voter rolls to be purged, a person’s affiliation to one party to be officially changed without  that persons permission or knowledge, we allow the number of polling places to be cut in half even when we know there is most likely going to be a record turn out and then blame the people for coming out to vote. We have allowed the corporate media to run this campaign. We have a congress with a 4% approval rating and yet when it comes time to vote we will most likely keep the same people in office we don’t think are doing a good job. But if one guy making minimum wage at McDonalds screws up your fatty burger you want him fired and use his mistake to prove $15 an hour is too much for a livable minimum wage. We have spent the last couple of months arguing over where people take a piss!

I want a person to vote for that has earned MY vote not the vote of the 1%. I know I and hundreds of thousands if not millions are not going to get the government we want, but just maybe we are going to get the government we deserve because we didn’t speak up and speak out.