I find it difficult to believe that we now live in a country that:
1. The best political parties can do is claim that “your guy is worse than our guy”
2. That has a Supreme Court that solicits gifts to our government officials after they have done something nice for the donor.
3. That fines Boeing millions of dollars after they plead guilty to causing hundreds of deaths so that no individuals bear responsibility and the shareholders (who had nothing to do with the problem) lose money.
4. Ignores Social Security that is desperately in need of reform, because “it won’t happen on my watch”.
5. Has “news” providers that ignore facts and are mainly around to push the agenda of the dozen or so people that own the media.
6. Has everyone thinking they “know what Americans want” when no one really knows what Americans want.
Americans are increasingly using the term ‘corrupt’ to describe many of our Country’s’ leaders. We use this as ammunition against ‘the other side’ and don’t consider the fact that it is the system that is corrupt! A corrupt system not only attracts corrupt individuals into its’ embrace it forces good people into acting in manners that they wouldn’t if things worked as they were supposed to. According to national polls a majority of voters believe the Second Amendment needs to be changed or revoked, that the border crisis could be easily fixed by hiring more asylum judges and issuing more work visas for those jobs that we don’t want to do and that the Supreme Court and other judges and politicians wouldn’t be allowed to accept gifts.
Being a agricultural economy at the time, Our Founding Fathers didn’t have machine guns to contend with and never thought about employers that would operate in multiple states. It is clearly time to update our Constitution to answer the problems of our time. We need to replace the Second Amendment to allow the local governments to regulate the use of firearms as they see fit. We need another Amendment to restrict political contributions to only those who can vote in the election, and another stating that no-one is above the law at any time.
My experience working for a multinational corporation caused me to see the immense power these employers have over their workers. I wrote an editorial for the paper and received several calls from “Corporate” making me promise to run any further editorials by them prior to submitting them. What a great way to silence a whole workforce. When they asked me to contribute to their political action committee, I felt pressured to acquiesce and felt my denial to contribute may have partially led to my lack of promotion and ultimate firing. It became obvious that the American officers of the company were more interested in impressing the non-American officers of the holding company than they were in promoting American values.
These large employers have learned how to play the system so that their political action committees contribute all across the country to those politicians that push their agenda, or oppose those that don’t.
Food, healthcare and housing are necessary to feel secure in America. The only way we can achieve these it to hold a job. Our need for money justifies many actions that are not ethical but legal. We put up with these lapses in our integrity because we have mouths to feed, superiors to please, and after all “it’s just ‘marketing”’.
We, as a people, have to start putting people ahead of money, while realizing that those that spread hate are toiling to make America break due to a lack of trust in each other. We have to look for solutions and not blame and name calling. You don’t drain a swamp by adding liquidity. Taking the money out of elections would be a start.
