{"id":18502,"date":"2022-11-07T10:52:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/politics-sucks\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T10:52:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:52:55","slug":"politics-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/politics-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s just another election. Another chance to vote for someone you don’t know or care about, and hope they care about you, even though you know they don’t care about you. Two parties with one goal: to keep us regular people from wanting more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more we want, the less they can take. They make promises, but things move very slowly in government, and especially at the Federal level, change comes slowly. It can be frustrating. I’ve been expecting cannabis legalization ‘soon’ since 1980. Maybe it will happen this decade. Frustrating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I believe this election is different. They’ve taken away just about all they can take, from as many people as they could, and now they are coming for our democracy. Now they want the power to decide who wins the election without regard for our actual votes. They want the power to override the choices of the people, because their own choices are so unpopular that forcing them upon us is the only way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It may be the one party that’s pushing for a more authoritarian America than the other right now, but in truth it’s the system that allowed it to get THIS bad. Our elections have become about money and manipulation, not issues that most people care about. Re-election and party loyalty have become more important than American progress and the Constitution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our government has lost it’s way. Once the greatest democratic experiment in the World, American politics has descended into a system of corporate rule, where the number of dollars is more important than the number of votes. Two party rule means we get to vote for two sides of the same old shit, and lack of term limits and ethics standards means it can be very profitable to be a lifetime politician. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We get to choose which politicians work for the corporate overlords, instead of public servants who work for US. Our government is run by an elite ruling class, rather than everyday Americans in service to make America better for All. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Founders would cringe at the horror that we’ve wrought from their precious framework. But they also gave us the power to fix it…IF we choose to use it. IF we decide to reform our corrupt system, and refuse to allow our vote to become completely meaningless. Before the corrupt political elite make sure that we can’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will vote tomorrow, and I’m voting BLUE because there are too many MAGA election deniers running on Team Red, and democracy is just too fucking important to fuck around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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#Vote #Election2022 #VoteBlue #Independent <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authors Note: All opinions expressed here are just that: opinions. If you don’t like mine, I probably won’t like yours either. Let’s just nod, and walk away. Maybe come back with solutions instead of opinions. Because of the two, only solutions actually matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s just another election. Another chance to vote for someone you don’t know or care about, and hope they care about you, even though you know they don’t care about you. Two parties with one goal: to keep us regular people from wanting more. The more we want, the less they can take. 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