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In reply to the discussion: President Obama will soon be reaping the harvest he sowed by not pursuing the Bush Admin. criminals [View all]chknltl
(10,558 posts)Thank you for expressing what I have felt for years. Perhaps i can add my further thinkings on this. Although I can have no facts to back up what I feel in my heart I just know that should the evil doers be tried in an open court the media will have little choice but to shift full focus on the proceedings.
President Jefferson said that democracy requires an enlightened electorate. The very last thing these nasty cockroaches want is is a bright spotlight illuminating their deeds. I firmly believe that had we impeached President Bush and brought his crime family to trial the electorate would have received a healthy dose of reality and that very reality would have translated to fewer votes for Republicans and more votes for Democrats.
Some in the media celebrate the fracturing of the Republican Party. I do not. For our democracy to survive we need at bare minimum two viable options for the electorate to choose from. Both of these options have been damaged by the influence of capitalism. Our democracy can not survive capitalism unrestricted. The proof of that is before our eyes now.
Obviously the Republican Party has been damaged the hardest, they represent corporate influence far more than they actually represent the needs of their electorate supporters. The Democratic Party has their own problems here as well but to a far lesser extent. IMO, the cancer needs to be cut from BOTH Parties and the only way to do this is with a sharp knife wielded by an enlightened electorate.
That enlightenment can only come at the hands of our media and they refuse to fill that position without prompting. The impeachment of President Clinton showed us how the media can go there....had we impeached President Bush it would have gone there again.
After the impeachment of the BFEE the newly enlightened electorate would have been quite sensitive to the lies and false advertisement of capitalism controlled politicians. The Republican Party as well as our own Democratic Party seeking election or reelection would have been forced away from their corporate influences and we could have had a better government-a government OF BY and FOR us.
Well that's what I feel in my heart....