Is this Democratic Underground?

[sabrina 1]

181. I don't support or not support him. I have come to the conclusion that the president really

doesn't have much power but is merely a spokesperson for the real powers that are behind this government. The whole system is so broken that even if we elected Bernie Sanders, it's doubtful he would be allowed to implement the kind of massive changes that are needed in this country.

Maybe that's why someone like Sanders doesn't run, he knows how rigged the system is. My focus now is on changing the system, because no matter who is president under this system, nothing substantial will change, none of the things that so badly need changing. Like our brutal, criminal foreign policy. There is no way I will ever be able to overlook the killing of innocent people, no matter who is doing it. Or the killing without charges or trials of anyone who is not on a battle field, I mean a real battle field, not the fake 'war on terror' battle field.

I look at all of them now, and wonder what kind of human beings could support the murders, because it is murder to drop bombs on innocent people who have done nothing to us. All for profit and power. I had hoped that we could change that, but no point in going over it all again. These people have children of their own, many of them. Do they ever look at the dead bodies of the children of Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan that they are responsible for and think of their own? How do they sleep at night I wonder?

I am just totally disgusted frankly, and astounded that people will try to excuse it all and refuse to face the reality that we are not the good guys, we are the guys the world views as the biggest threat to world peace.

And we are asked to turn a blind eye to the horrific suffering we are inflicting on human beings in various countries for political reasons? No one will ever be held accountable, which is why they keep doing it. So, I know that there has to be a new way to make the necessary changes to put a stop to this, which was always my main issue when Bush was president, the killing and the excuses for it, the lies, and the brutality and the total lack of compassion for people. I thought Bush was just an aberration, but he wasn't. To be president of this country under the current system, you have to be willing to go along with all of this, otherwise you will not get anywhere close to that job. That is the reality most people are finally facing. The question now is what to do about it.