I think it is safe to say our representatives are corrupt and awful no matter which party we are in. We can probably just shake hands and say we suck too. I think it is also safe to say that public officials have little to no oversight and that is a problem. The FBI and the DOJ have their own agenda, and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with holding elected officials accountable. The media is just out for profit and will say whatever they are paid to say. What can we do? It almost doesn't matter if the elections are cooked or not, we are just choosing from different flavors of shit. We say we are choosing the lesser of evils, and we are guaranteed a loser. You can argue how much influence the non-elected structures in Washington have, but we still end up with a growing, unchecked, corrupt leading body. It almost makes me want to have our representatives chosen like jurors, out of a hat. Could that be worse? The people who run for office are the exact people who have no business being in office. We are corrupt, what do we do?
I typed in this same subject line to start a new thread, when this one popped up. And pretty much said was I was going to say, with a few things left out.
It's my opinion that our elected officials are corrupted before they even enter the race. At least most of them. Those that are legit, quickly learn that to survive in politics, you have to sell your soul to the lobbyist. If you want to get a committee seat, you have to pay for that seat. As in real money. Some of those seats cost more than your yearly salary. But a lobbyist can pay for that seat, and put you on an installment plan. Pay back a little at a time with fund raising. Or voting the way they want you to vote. Or both.
Yes, those in a committee seat had to pay for that seat in real money. Think about that. Real money to be on a committee. There's too many wrongs to list.
Some of the other things I was going to mention was that citizens need to stop being scared of everything. Especially being cancelled, being politically correct. Stop being "inclusive" to BS they don't agree with. It's OK if you don't support some trans cause. It's OK to not support BLM. If you're a republican, it's OK to not support Trump. And most importantly, it's OK to not be a party loyalist, for either party. Party loyalism is what happens in Russia, it's what helped to bring people like Hitler to power. It's something that seems to be bringing the country down and dividing everyone.
When I left all the parties and the LP, it was seriously like a breath of fresh air. I no longer had to side with a party that I truly didn't agree with on some important issues. When I was a democrat, I was pro life. And still am. But as a democrat party loyalist, I had to argue in favor of pro choice crap that I didn't believe in.
I'm also conservative. So when I was a republican, I had to argue in favor of all the spending the GOP was guilty of. It was like selling my soul.
Party loyalist are going to support the violent movement of BLM. They're going to call themselves "woke" or a "Proud Boy." They're going to support boys in dresses and make up, competing against real females. They're going to support republicans when they do stuff like banning bump stocks.
And for what? All that's happening is a perpetuation of the divisional BS that's put this country in a state of insanity.
MANA... Make America Normal Again
