I had to read this twice, Rohn,to understand your theory of a third or fourth party. Fascinating idea, Question, do you think the American People are ready for this concept? I personally think white folks are still to comfortable with the status quo?! Good read, Thank you, and as always, will reStack ASAP 🙏
I don't think Amerikans are "ready" for much of what they have in store because they weren't "ready" for what they find themselves with now and Ray Charles could have seen it coming.
Of course the problem with American democracy is no one was supposed to vote for too much of anything. No one was supposed to vote for president, senators were supposed to be picked by states, and representatives were supposed to be picked by those who were landed enough to be wiser than the fools who had to lease their lives.
d'Tocqueville came along and visited and said we had a troubled imitation of a democracy which no one in America (who could vote) thought we had.
I don't know if Andrew Jackson read d'Tocqueville or not but he couldn't get elected to the presidency unless the people could cast votes for the electoral votes of their states.
Now we say he was our first autocratic president and his principal autocratic move was to give people the idea their vote actually mattered.
The war between the states didn't free anyone but it did make many aware their democracy was a farce and in 1865 movements began to take the power away from the elite. In 1877 reconstruction ended and the civil war began between ameriKans and those who owned the farce and the failure was thereafter the fault of slaves who were supposedly freed by Lincoln. The truth is freed only slaves in states that were rebelling against America and when the war was over Lincoln had quite figured out what to do.
Hailed forevermore as the black liberator, had he lived, his plan was to welcome the states back under their original leaders because he had no wish for any black participation in the govt. Unshot, Lincoln was trying to devise a reservation somewhere for the new freedmen.
Democracy we have never been, nor were we ever supposed to be..
Are Americans ready for democracy? Probably, but they don't even understand what voting is and think it's a ballgame where one side or the other wins. '
Thus we think voting for candidates we don't choose anyway (primaries only decide who gets the money not who has the "best" policies and only make more money necessary for endless campaigning and less democracy for the voters.
Why are we voting for people anyway? Why don't we determine what our issues are and then select people to represent those policies.
Why do farmers have to vote for lawyers and factory workers given the option between ivy league carpetbaggers. Lawyers should be representing you in court, not in congress.
So people probably are ready, but we don't have a democracy so it doesn't make any difference whether they are not because the "vote" is a deception bought and paid for by Madison Avenue & the Democratic-Republican Party. We don't have two parties, we have two candidates. In the "Democratic" Republic of China" most elections have three or four candidates of the same party, we have two pretend parties and candidates selected in the same manner, by the party.
Donald Trump, Smitty to some, was chosen by either party and then the Republicans realized the people in their party didn't want to vote for the candidates they wanted them to vote for.
Back the first time around the Democrats wanted Sanders for the same reason, but they didn't come to the same brainy idea and blackballed Sanders from running against the Smitty.
People have always been ready to vote for someone besides those we're told we have to vote for.
The Republicans, however, realized that and the Dems didn't and what is left but what we have?
I had to read this twice, Rohn,to understand your theory of a third or fourth party. Fascinating idea, Question, do you think the American People are ready for this concept? I personally think white folks are still to comfortable with the status quo?! Good read, Thank you, and as always, will reStack ASAP 🙏
I don't think Amerikans are "ready" for much of what they have in store because they weren't "ready" for what they find themselves with now and Ray Charles could have seen it coming.
Well said my friend 😎
Of course the problem with American democracy is no one was supposed to vote for too much of anything. No one was supposed to vote for president, senators were supposed to be picked by states, and representatives were supposed to be picked by those who were landed enough to be wiser than the fools who had to lease their lives.
d'Tocqueville came along and visited and said we had a troubled imitation of a democracy which no one in America (who could vote) thought we had.
I don't know if Andrew Jackson read d'Tocqueville or not but he couldn't get elected to the presidency unless the people could cast votes for the electoral votes of their states.
Now we say he was our first autocratic president and his principal autocratic move was to give people the idea their vote actually mattered.
The war between the states didn't free anyone but it did make many aware their democracy was a farce and in 1865 movements began to take the power away from the elite. In 1877 reconstruction ended and the civil war began between ameriKans and those who owned the farce and the failure was thereafter the fault of slaves who were supposedly freed by Lincoln. The truth is freed only slaves in states that were rebelling against America and when the war was over Lincoln had quite figured out what to do.
Hailed forevermore as the black liberator, had he lived, his plan was to welcome the states back under their original leaders because he had no wish for any black participation in the govt. Unshot, Lincoln was trying to devise a reservation somewhere for the new freedmen.
Democracy we have never been, nor were we ever supposed to be..
Are Americans ready for democracy? Probably, but they don't even understand what voting is and think it's a ballgame where one side or the other wins. '
Thus we think voting for candidates we don't choose anyway (primaries only decide who gets the money not who has the "best" policies and only make more money necessary for endless campaigning and less democracy for the voters.
Why are we voting for people anyway? Why don't we determine what our issues are and then select people to represent those policies.
Why do farmers have to vote for lawyers and factory workers given the option between ivy league carpetbaggers. Lawyers should be representing you in court, not in congress.
So people probably are ready, but we don't have a democracy so it doesn't make any difference whether they are not because the "vote" is a deception bought and paid for by Madison Avenue & the Democratic-Republican Party. We don't have two parties, we have two candidates. In the "Democratic" Republic of China" most elections have three or four candidates of the same party, we have two pretend parties and candidates selected in the same manner, by the party.
Donald Trump, Smitty to some, was chosen by either party and then the Republicans realized the people in their party didn't want to vote for the candidates they wanted them to vote for.
Back the first time around the Democrats wanted Sanders for the same reason, but they didn't come to the same brainy idea and blackballed Sanders from running against the Smitty.
People have always been ready to vote for someone besides those we're told we have to vote for.
The Republicans, however, realized that and the Dems didn't and what is left but what we have?
Love the word play in this essay. Excellent work as always!