Is Our System of Government Corrupt?

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"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

That saying by John Adams appears more relevant today than ever before. America, thanks to Bush and his henchmen, is no longer the Republic in which the people hold sovereignty, with the right to enforce their own conception of rights and to declare war, and where the “power” of government is derived from the people themselves. Instead, the US is increasingly being looked at as a Kingdom-- a kingdom of bubbles, or Bubbledom: the media bubble, the stock market bubble, the dotcom bubble, the real-estate bubble, the financial bubble.

The tactics of the Bush Administration have consistently been based on scaring people into submission. They used scores of mind-control specialists, spin doctors, corrupt or coerced media people, and coalesced with special interests mafia groups and deep-pocket corporate gamblers to whip the American people into declaring their unequivocal allegiance to King Bush and his dynasty.

From the start, Bush's plan was simple: bomb those rag-tag people in Afghanistan, unleash the US military might against Saddam's junkyards, then declare a quick victory over what the American people were led to believe were utterly dangerous foes. All of our attention was hijacked by such momentous events being paraded on our TV screens in the comfort of our bubble homes, forgetting about our own real woes, like a national debt approaching ten trillion dollars and a whole new slew of bubbles being inflated all around us, including under the roof of our own homes.

The spin machine had done a superb job laying the ground for Bush's scam by churning out doctored images of Saddam, making that ignorant and arrogant Bedouin look as if he were an invincible enemy, and depicting the Taliban, a bunch of tent-dwellers and

sheepherders in the rugged Afghan mountains as the ultimate, formidable force to be reckoned with.

After 9/11, the stage was all set to launch this Machiavellian plan, using deceit and outright lies. The majority of the American people, being busy-- as they increasingly are-- coping with the rat race created by corporate peddlers, failed to discern or even understand Bush's hidden agenda.

Historically, America has mostly had straight-shooters as presidents, from Georges Washington to Eisenhower. Even Reagan was a man of ideals and principals. Then a new breed of dubious politirants took over--first Clinton, then Bush.

Bush, however, came to the White House with a vengeance, literally. If one digs with only a slight effort, the truth about Bush's real motives behind his decision to go to war in Iraq would jump at one's face. The whole world saw through it, except the people that mattered most, the American people.

Bush and his cronies resorted to all kinds of scare tactics. Their plan was outrageously successful: they had many Americans duct-tape their homes, freely spy on their neighbors, accept wholeheartedly that their phones be wiretapped, gladly raise their hands as they get a demeaning strip-search before they take their domestic flights...

In spite of all that, Bush until today argues that "the aim of the terrorists is to change our lifestyle, but they won't succeed." It's Bush and his thugs--not necessarily the terrorists-- who have changed the lifestyle of Americans. They made Americans live in a bubble for six long years. They trashed the image of America abroad and, with it, long decades of hard work and trillions of dollars invested worldwide in building the brand "America" as a nation of compassion, goodwill, and tolerance.

The question therefore is: is our system of government corrupt? If you think so, something must be done to salvage our democracy.

Just an idea: why not encourage the e-populace to create an alternative party in America-- a blog-based political party that could, over a number of years, become viable and competitive enough to give the people a real voice in electing responsible officials?

I suggest we call this new party "The Blogocratic Party," a third choice for Americans. The Blogocratic Party should gain in strength and gather enough tailwind as it goes forward and garners more active bloggers (and non-bloggers as well),until it becomes a real force to be reckoned with.

This new party should restore power back to the people, in line with our constitutional rights, thus giving a real meaning to "WE THE PEOPLE." This party should not accept money from special interest groups. It should draft its own platform and have all bloggers participate in the drafting process, before setting up a referendum to pass or reject any and each one of its clauses. The party's manifesto should then be presented to the general public.

I bet there will be a mass exodus from the two corrupt parties that are now fielding three business-as-usual candidates, of whom one might end up in the White House pretty soon.

Any other ideas?

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