by Peter Stern

Created on: March 19, 2010

Politics Has Evolved Into the Lesser of the Evils

Special interest action and thinking has led us to the evolution of mediocrity.

Once upon a time in America there were great leaders, the economy was strong, everyone shared in living a successful life and the people were happy and proud to be Americans.  The American worker was the best in the World.  But that was then and this is now.

So what happened?  In part greed, power and control have undermined politics.

 First, the American 2-party political system has failed the people.  In truth, there are more parties, but there are two parties that have seized control.  In always vying for power & control each party has lost its way.  To gain more for itself, each party focuses on the acquisition of millions in campaign contributions.  $ucce$$ is measured in dollars.  There is little pride or respect.

There are fewer candidates for office who are intelligent, charismatic, honest, ethical and QUALIFIED.  During the past several generations, the public has evolved apathetic and distrustful of their leaders.  Worse still, we have developed leaders who are barely mediocre.

As voters, we have learned NOT to vote for the best candidate, but we continue to vote for the lesser of the evils.  Consequently, we have lost our edge across the World's stage.

The corporate sector has helped to ensure that the American worker remains unemployed by outsourcing American jobs overseas or by laying-off Americans and hiring only foreign H-1B visa holders.  The American worker is becoming extinct, as is the prehistoric wooly mammoth.

While more Americans become jobless with no income, they also are becoming less educated.  The process extends to limited or no health insurance coverage, taxpayer bail-outs of large corporations, higher costs of daily living expenses and increased energy needs.  Costs continue to overshadow income.

We should consider whether these ongoing occurrences in the demise of the American worker and our political system is a conscious forethought or is it a stumbling, bumbling process of ineptness and fool hardy imperialism.  I vote for the former.

It is difficult to believe that those who manage our government and corporate enterprises are accidently corrupting our political system and plunging American lives into an economic abyss, from which there is no escape.

Our leaders are lying to us.  They tell

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