Reply #183: "We have free and fair elections" [View All]

No offense, but what planet are you living on?

There are two votes in America: The money-vote, followed by the democratic-vote. Nothing gets on the agenda of the democratic-vote that hasn't first passed the money-vote. The problem with this is, those with more money get more votes. So the agenda is narrowed to just those things that either advance the interests of the monied classes, or certainly does not hurt their interests. Only those candidates that espouse the agenda set by the money-vote are considered "serious". So our near-monopolized major media tell us every day.

Given that our electoral choices amount to selecting a near-fascist from an overt-fascist, we hardly have "free and fair elections". Where's the choice? Mr. Smith does not go to Washington. And I haven't even mentioned the very successful voter theft and suppression techniques of the overtly fascist faction of our one party state.

Mussolini defined "fascism" as the marriage of state and corporate power, a government by and for the corporate elite. That is exactly what we have today.

Really, if there's any hope for the future of the Democratic Party, and thus for America, we (progressives) really have to dig in and takeover the local machines of the Party. We have to find ways to dilute the power of the "money vote".