Something you may want to mull over while the politicians are deciding what’s good for you...
“Democracy” is a word that gets bandied about in a very superficial and bastardized manner in this country by very well paid politicians, pundits and professors alike when it comes to politics.
Consider this, though... something these “smart people” hired to do our thinking for us don’t seem to want to ponder:
What are the only two qualifications which merit one being considered a legitimate candidate for any public office in this country in which it is a boast that “We the People” are in power because we “elect” people to represent us?
The only two qualifications required for public office are thus;
1. One must have accumulated great wealth in order to have reached...
2. Fame.
Isn’t there something very perverted when the only two qualifications one must have to compete for public office are FAME and FORTUNE... which, automatically rules out anyone honest person who works for a living becoming a candidate?
Fortune and Fame are the only two qualifications required to be considered a legitimate candidate for public office here in the United States, the world’s greatest bastion of democracy according to those whose job it is to make sure no “lowly” person whose ideas are the result of experience as a worker ever gets a public hearing... especially if those views articulate the collective thinking of the working class in which one expresses the dangerous idea that only labor, with no little amount of help from Mother Nature, creates all wealth; which challenges the very bedrock of what is passed off as democracy where only those who have gained great wealth by exploiting labor and raping Mother Nature have the qualifications for public office.
If this isn’t true that only those who have achieved a level of fame based on their accumulation of tremendous wealth are credible candidates for public office, how does one explain there are no working class candidates tolerated when it comes to electoral politics in this country?
Can it possibly be, that of the tens of millions of working people in this country who comprise the overwhelming majority of the people in this country, not one single person who works for wages has ideas worthy of being considered as part of the national political discourse?
How can it possibly be that of the tens of millions of workers in this country no worker has ideas worthy of consideration?
How is it that ONLY the voices of those who have reached a certain level of fame based on the fortunes they have accumulated have ideas worthy of consideration for “We the People” to “elect” to public office?
Or, is it more of a “selection process” for us instead rather than an “election process” based on real competing ideas?
How can this be a democracy when one must qualify for public office based on wealth and fame instead of real life experience and ideas gained honestly working for a living?