Write Your Congressman. Right.

Every time we see something wrong, every time we have our freedoms compromised, every time we see American youth dying in uniform to protect the wealth and power of the rich, we are told to “write our Congressman”. I have been hearing the same thing, over and over again until the litany is etched upon my very soul. “Write your Congressman”, “sign this petition”, and every organization that asks you to sign this petition to nowhere, at the end of these plaintive calls for help, they ask you to donate to their cause so that they can send out more letters and buy advertising that sends the same message, over and over again, “write your Congressman”.

First of all, I’m not sending a god damned dollar to any group or organization that asks me to “Write my Congressman”. You can write your Congressman until your fingers are bleeding and your tongue is crimson from paper cuts from licking the envelopes but it won’t do any good. You can call these people, write to them, and send a video if that what floats your boat, and it still won’t do any good. These people, in case you haven’t noticed, are not going to do anything! The faster you understand this, the faster we can promote real change in this country. The Democrats have failed us over and over again. If they were a sports team, you can bet that after not winning a game in a decade, that ticket sales would be non-existent. Only the most die hard fans would attend their games yet the Democratic Party continues to sell out to a loyal fan base, meanwhile they continue to throw their games. God forbid we organize a real political party for the liberal/progressives that continue to support a party that want nothing from us but money and votes… but not our input.

I saw Chris Dodd today on “The View”. This is the only candidate that is mainstream that admits the Constitution has been gutted. Let me ask you how this was accomplished? Did the Republicans have every seat in the 109th Congress, or did they do it with full cooperation of The Democratic Party? Yet Americans continue to dutifully head to the polls and vote for the Republican or Democrat that conduct their elections with corporate campaign funds and with the tacit approval of the same people that brought you the Iraq War. Is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? Until the American People “get it” they will continue to do just this.

So keep on “Writing your Congressman” and keep on seeing them do just what they wish to do. Listen to the same old tired politicians telling you the same old excuses month after month, year after year. This nation has a gross national product (GNP) of 12.5 Trillion dollars. Sit there on your couch and watch year by year one trillion dollars migrates from the poorest 96 million households to the wealthiest 13 thousand households. The rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer and nobody in Congress does anything about it. It must be our fault that we find it harder and harder to pay our bills.

So the next election, go vote for the corporatist of your choice and when you find that Congress can’t override a veto, or your complaints fall on deaf ears along with a note that says thanks for writing, think of what you read here today. I can see the people wondering why we are still seeing body bags in Iraq in 2013 when the Dem front runners have already told America they have no intention of pulling our troops out. Still we have Progressives supporting Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama. Don’t whine and cry when nothing changes. Don’t underestimate the power of those 13,000 thousand households that have a vested interest in seeing this war continue. Don’t blame anyone but yourself when we finally go down that path of war with Iran in our desire to control the resources of the entire Middle East or when we finally prod the Russians and Chinese to go to war with us.

Support your political party of your choice. It doesn’t matter which one, there are only two, and they are both right of center. You may as well vote Republican; at least you won’t feel as deceived when they go against everything you believe, better the enemy you know than the one that you don’t. God forbid liberal/progressives break from the herd that is heading for the cliff.

That’s the way I see it.

Let The Liberal Party Change America!

I usually don't write anything on this blog because the Liberal Party has been quite dead for awhile now. I plan to change that. Therefore I submit to all liberal/Progressives to at least consider where the Democratic Party has brought this nation with the help of the Republicans. We have no free media that is not corporate controlled. We still do not have "Clean Elections " without the stigma and bias of corporate contributors. We are falling into a type of fascism that has not been seen since 1924 when Benito Mussolini turned Italy over to the corporate sector that controlled the country until it was liberated by the Allies.

I am calling on all, rich, poor, black, white whatever, to break free of the Democratic Party. Not to leave and give it to the "Blue Dogs", but to at least think of a third party that really expresses the reality of the world and domestic situation without those "ties that bind" that the Democrats now have. A party that is not an AIPAC puppet. A party that knows the mass media is controlled by the same people that will "Dumb Down America" to keep the citizenry from thinking outside the box. A party that has no ties to corporate boardrooms and antiquated policy. A party that represents "The New Left" that in another time and place would have been smack in the center of mainstream America.

This is a call to your own conscience. Do you want to run the entire world like our government wants now? If the Chinese or the Russians, the Russians, who by the way are making a dramatic resurgence, wanted to land troops on the West Coast while North Korea let loose with their artillery on the South, we would have nothing to greet these troops with except the Police and some broken National Guard units. This is where the behavior of this administration, along with the culpability of the Democrats have gotten us.

Yes it it a cruel world at times. National Defense should be a priority, but subjugating other nations should not. It can also be a world where we meet those we disagree with halfway. It can be a world with free exchange of ideas. That is the best defense against totalitarianism. We need to work within the framework of civilized nations and leave this "go it alone" mentality in the trash bin of history and be an equal partner with other nations of the world.

You can choose to stay with the Democrats and keep troops all over the world and sell off your country, one industry at a time, or you can at least consider a third party. Right now this is nothing, but it could be the way we get back to reality.

Do the Liberals Need A Party?

LPA: The recent victory of the Democrats in the last election should have been the death knell of The Liberal Party of America. Instead of being the death knell however, it seems as if the call for a third party has become more pressing than ever. It seems that no matter what we say to the Democrats (by we I’m talking about the Liberal/Progressives) , they don’t seem to be listening. There is a Progressive Democrat caucus in Congress, but they are small in number compared to the mainstream Democrats. The mainstream Democrats are hardly discernible from the mainstream Republicans.

What is a liberal? That question has been asked and answered by John F. Kennedy when he accepted the Liberal Party of New York’s nomination for President. Liberal was not such a polarizing word back in those times. Lately the word liberal has lost some of it’s negative charge because of the failings of the conservative right, that have shown people in this country how close to fascism they can get. During the Rights “glory days” they have managed to gut our rights under the Constitution, invade a sovereign nation and foment a civil war there that we are still involved in four year later, and set up a “unitary power of the executive branch” that considers itself to be above the law.

You would think that the election of a Democratic Congress would pave the way for impeachment, but before Congress was even seated in Washington the leaders of the Democrats sat with this President and then declared that “impeachment is off the table” to the consternation of the people that helped vote the Democrats into power. Many people thought this was a clever ruse by Democrats that would surely lead to investigations of people in the administration that would lead to impeachment. This has not happened either. What will it take for the Democrats to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the crimes of this administration? Now we are involved in a scandal that involves the Attorney Generals office. Unbelievably, The White House is being tied to the dismissal of eight Federal Prosecutors that seem to have been fired for political reasons.

How long will it take to convince Pelosi and Company that we need a stronger system of checks against this “Unitary Power” of this executive branch? Many Americans are wary of our own government and even the relationship between Democrats and Republicans is suspect. After a Republican Congress has enacted The Military Commissions Act of 2006 that takes away Habeas Corpus and leaves the use of torture open for discussion, The Patriot Act that allows the government to search your house without a warrant and many other laws and “signing statements” that cloud the issue of where your civil rights end and where the governments jurisdiction begins goes directly to the heart of The Bill of Rights that have almost been rescinded.

Maybe the idea of a third party that has political clout is called for. Maybe The Liberal Party IS just what the doctor ordered or maybe another party could carry the message that the American people are fed up with politics as usual in Washington. The corporate PAC’s that donate to political campaigns have just about become the “deciders” of who gets to run for office, and who doesn’t. Most American have become disgusted with the way Corporate politics are played in Washington and many States have voted for “Clean Money Elections”. This is something that Congress should be doing on the national level. We can’t afford another George W. Bush sitting in the White House. Right now I believe that we will be lucky to get him out of Washington when his term is up. With so many of the peoples rights usurped by all the laws passed in the last six years, we will be fortunate to keep our Republic intact.

Is it time for a third party? This is something that the people must decide. As an American you must ask yourselves if you are willing to sacrifice your freedom for the idea of security? Is this security real or is it imaginary? Are these terrorists that hate us around the world so powerful and omnipotent that we must give up our privacy? Do you want your government engaging in torture? Do you believe that we need to spend 350% more than our nearest competitor on military spending? Do you believe we need military bases in over one hundred countries? Do you want to spend you children’s inheritance on controlling the middle east?

Both political parties are saying yes to the questions that I just asked. Make no mistake of the fact that many of the goals the Republicans have are the same as the Democrats. The time of the two party system has long been at an end. The biggest question you must ask yourself is if you are happy with whom you get to vote for when you go to the polls and vote. For too many years we have had the lessor of two evils. All of the candidates that have won in the primaries have been well connected with corporate funding. How long do you want this to go on? Are you satisfied that we have people running that have “The Right Stuff”?

The choice is yours to make. You can either beg for a place at the table with the Democrats, or you can be a part of something bigger. The Liberal Party needs leaders. The Liberal Party needs voices. Even if we could represent a bloc of voters, we still would be more effective than trying to make our voices heard independently. I believe that it’s time for change. I believe you think it’s time for a change. Together we can make that change. Why wait?