Sen. Sanders gave an interesting analysis of party politics on Bill Moyers and Company this past weekend and it is worth listening to if you can muster up the 20 minutes or so that he spoke to Mr. Moyers. The problem with politics today is the parties have become so extreme in their thinking and have devolved from center left or right along with all the litmus tests of parties nothing gets done.
Sen. Mitch McConnell says his goal is not to get anything done in the Senate but to make President Obama a one term president. He could care less about what is good for the country. Pretty extreme stuff when poll after poll indicate most Americans are concerned about the economy, cost of health care, social security , medicare and ending the war in Afghanistan. Congress can't seem to do anything but argue and they get nothing done with respect to the business of the people.
Both Congress and the Senate are bought and controlled by PAC's, goofy pledges, six banking firms and a few rich families and individuals. Sen. Sanders is an advocate of publicly financed elections in order to get people elected who actually represent the people of this country v. those will the money and PAC's and banks. The system is fraught with waste and fraud as it currently exists. We are moving to an Oligarchy given the current state of election financing.
Maybe we need to scrap party politicos and elect more independents like Mr. Sanders. We need people in Congress who will address the pressing issues of this great nation ahead of party politics.
You have to ask yourself what NAFTA and the lopsided "Free Trade Agreements" done for the Middle and Working class people of this country. Why haven't we seen legal prosecutions of the corrupt and fradulent actions of Bankers and Wall Street thugs who nearly put this country into a full blown economic depression.
Here's a link to the show if you missed it on PBS http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-challenging-power-changing-politics/
I found it intersting to hear that Soc. Sec. has not contributed a dime to the deficet. The way the Republicans are screaming you would think it was the top reason for our financial mess. I also liked the idea of rasing the cap to $250k on income to fund future needs of Soc. Security and this will keep it in the black for the next 75 years.
ReplyDeleteParty purity, litmus tests, and phony pledges are destroying any ability to conduct anything in Congress. I don't have a solution for this and don't think Independents have any future simply due to the money that flows to both political parties. In the absence of any clear way forward voting the rascals out may be the way forward,
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