Americans voted for a Democratic majority in Congress in 2006, and the message I thought we sent when we did that — just as the media seemed to think — was that most of us wanted out of the Iraq War and wanted to see Cheney and Bush impeached, or at least some true ass-kicking in Washington over the lies they used to get us into the war and the torture and other atrocities committed since. (Both Clinton and Nixon were impeached for far less.)
Yet the candidate who’s taken the most action toward that end, Dennis Kucinich, is BEHIND in the polls.
So my question is, when are Americans going to figure it out? You can have the candidate who appears on TV the most and visits your town, so you get a little thrill before you vote for him or her, and they can have that expensive campaign backed by the very people (wealthy corporatists) who want the opposite of what you want from them, or you can pay more attention to those who don’t have wealthy backers or the nod from mass corporate media, and are actually doing their jobs and campaigning at the same time, at least one of whom wants a true universal healthcare system rather than a corporate health insurance system, and is continuing to take action on behalf of you, who are ignoring them.
Does big business run the country? Or do we, the people?
