Unrein
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It's failed us, the ordinary people of this country, but has been paramount in the success of the corporate plutocracy and virtual enslavement of the masses.
What's clear is that there is no justification for the notion that party politicians (with extremely few exceptions) have any interest in defending and supporting the will of their voting constituency. It's strange, how common hatred, resentment and distrust toward politicians and parties is in us, yet how religiously we obey and vote for them never-the-less.
The state of party-politics boils down to a rotten fact that everyone is aware of but either feels helpless to resist, or too marred in cognitive dissonance to accept: politicians are bought and sold to the highest bidder. Yet we support, register and vote for them anyway.
And a curious system has evolved to accommodate the fact that politicians serve a different hand than the one that technically votes for them. Behold, the "two-party system". It's ingenious in these respects: A. It's less conspicuous than 'one-party' system, where the corruption and incompatibility with democracy is too obvious to even the stupid masses that populate this country. B. It's as restrictive as possible in the amount or diversity of choices given to the people. It's literally TWO, the bare-minimum to still perceptibly have a choice. So for this, it's much easier for consolidation of power and agenda. The corporations funnel their funds into their pockets, (now basically without restriction or loopholes even necessary to jump through), that's what buys their ads, which in turn buys their support and votes. The order and priorities of this system are completely wrong.
Now, this isn't a conspiracy, it's an obvious fact that we all can verify, and verifies itself to us every day, on every news program, with every speech or address or deliberation. We simply ignore it. We play the game they want us to play, which is buy into the bold-faced lie that their solutions, red herrings and false divisions are the only options.
The system completes its self-serving cycle at the level of media and schools, or the psychological warfare against the people. The media, 1, is the corporation that benefits from the system being the way it is, so will bombard us with stories of Lindsey Lohan and dogs with three-legs, in-between 5-minute segments of eight people trying to solve very large and involving topics by yelling at one another and calling it 'productive political discourse', to keep us distracted from the truth. Then, 2, the media benefits from this low-cost, high yield form of yellow journalism anyway. It's more profitable. Why report on research-intensive whistle blowing with all of these boring 'facts' and 'numbers' when cute animals and fat old people screaming at one other is far more exciting and fulfilling to the stupid audience, whose stupidity is only ensured and proliferated by the very act of engaging in watching these shows, spending their life knowing nothing outside the life-instructions of the tv-box faces?
And the schools? Dear God, the schools. Let me put it this way, I took a half-year economics class in high school and we literally spent the entirety of it reading one book about how 'rich people are rich because they save their money instead of spending it', and learning nothing except that countries have different GDPs (we learned this because we spent a week making construction paper bar graphs) and businesses will hire you if you're more efficient at working! Real informative stuff, very important in understanding the big picture of how and who is screwing you over in this world with the blinds forced over your head.
What's clear is that there is no justification for the notion that party politicians (with extremely few exceptions) have any interest in defending and supporting the will of their voting constituency. It's strange, how common hatred, resentment and distrust toward politicians and parties is in us, yet how religiously we obey and vote for them never-the-less.
The state of party-politics boils down to a rotten fact that everyone is aware of but either feels helpless to resist, or too marred in cognitive dissonance to accept: politicians are bought and sold to the highest bidder. Yet we support, register and vote for them anyway.
And a curious system has evolved to accommodate the fact that politicians serve a different hand than the one that technically votes for them. Behold, the "two-party system". It's ingenious in these respects: A. It's less conspicuous than 'one-party' system, where the corruption and incompatibility with democracy is too obvious to even the stupid masses that populate this country. B. It's as restrictive as possible in the amount or diversity of choices given to the people. It's literally TWO, the bare-minimum to still perceptibly have a choice. So for this, it's much easier for consolidation of power and agenda. The corporations funnel their funds into their pockets, (now basically without restriction or loopholes even necessary to jump through), that's what buys their ads, which in turn buys their support and votes. The order and priorities of this system are completely wrong.
Now, this isn't a conspiracy, it's an obvious fact that we all can verify, and verifies itself to us every day, on every news program, with every speech or address or deliberation. We simply ignore it. We play the game they want us to play, which is buy into the bold-faced lie that their solutions, red herrings and false divisions are the only options.
The system completes its self-serving cycle at the level of media and schools, or the psychological warfare against the people. The media, 1, is the corporation that benefits from the system being the way it is, so will bombard us with stories of Lindsey Lohan and dogs with three-legs, in-between 5-minute segments of eight people trying to solve very large and involving topics by yelling at one another and calling it 'productive political discourse', to keep us distracted from the truth. Then, 2, the media benefits from this low-cost, high yield form of yellow journalism anyway. It's more profitable. Why report on research-intensive whistle blowing with all of these boring 'facts' and 'numbers' when cute animals and fat old people screaming at one other is far more exciting and fulfilling to the stupid audience, whose stupidity is only ensured and proliferated by the very act of engaging in watching these shows, spending their life knowing nothing outside the life-instructions of the tv-box faces?
And the schools? Dear God, the schools. Let me put it this way, I took a half-year economics class in high school and we literally spent the entirety of it reading one book about how 'rich people are rich because they save their money instead of spending it', and learning nothing except that countries have different GDPs (we learned this because we spent a week making construction paper bar graphs) and businesses will hire you if you're more efficient at working! Real informative stuff, very important in understanding the big picture of how and who is screwing you over in this world with the blinds forced over your head.
