It strikes me as a bit grotesque that we live in a country that has legalized the death penalty and torturous practices like water-boarding. The top 2 articles on the New York Times website shows the horror-show nature of our country. Happy Halloween.
It shouldn't come as a surprise since the United States has over 2 million incarcerated people, refuses to sign the most basic environmental protocols, and has enormous homeless, ill, and mad populations the state refuses to assist. Our culture of death, torture, neglect is made more horrific by the enormity of homes, big box stores, loud-mouthed t.v. personalities, and cheap glitz. As we enter the election cycle in this colonial state born from the labor of slaves, exploited immigrants, and the poor, lets force candidates to answer for the historical, contemporary, and future violence a capitalist, colonialist, genocidal nation like the USA thrives on.
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For the past few years I've truly lost faith in the system, what is the "opposition" doing about this in congress?
I was really excited when the Dems won last year but absolutely nothing has changed since then, they continue to rubber stamp Bush's increasingly unreasonable demands, while the republicans continue to block everything.
Is this two party system a total sham? It's about time people wake up and actually demand their reps to do their elected duty or get out of the way.
The two-party system is a sham for a number of reasons. It allows corporate rule to dictate policy and creates a myth of limited options. Multi-party systems give voters more options and force candidates to have developed platforms that they promote. Even multi-party systems fail to distribute power horizontally to the people. Until we have power and resource sharing and systems that back people rather than profits, political systems will continue to fail to serve the best interest of the people and will remain a sham.
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