by Christyl Rivers

Created on: November 10, 2010

Sadly for humans, and all of those dominated by them, our next president will likely be someone who lusts for power, that is to say a politician, or someone who wants to make the world a better place, like Jimmy Carter in the 1970’s.  Of course, Carter is making the world a better place, but the world would have none of it, when he was in office.

History shows our system doesn’t work.  We can learn from history that no one is willing to listen to the lessons of history, so yawn, did someone say something about history?

Ours, in the U.S. is a two party system.  Until real campaign reform, a solid promise that everyone runs on, such as peace and prosperity happens, we are out of luck.

We really need a strong and realistic third party. If it is filled by too many whackos, like the Tea Party, which began with great promise, but has been brewing up vile bigotry and just weirdoes, of late, it won’t get anywhere.

As climate change brings more devastation by way of famine, plague, and resource wars, and climate change deniers, we have hope of a real Green party to emerge. Maybe the Green Tea party can become known for intelligence and enlightenment, and not devolve into some hippy dippy utopian pipe dream.  Libertarians may yet see their day in the sun, but they are all so gosh darn independent and liberated, they will likely branch off and create their own nation, or start a colony towards Mars.  Better Red planet, than dead, so to speak.

Why can’t we, a nation founded on principals of liberty, freedom and lofty ideals, get a decent and effective president?

For a number of years people have urged Oprah to run. She, being as educated and savvy as she is, probably never will. No one who believes in freedom and liberty, equality and compassion is going to join something as actively hissing with depravity as politics is.

Women do seem to be a great choice if you want no sexual scandal, closet homosexuality or long secret law-breaking, to sully the office.  But what does that say about our democracy, that a woman who is successful is held to such high standards that men are not subject too?  We would never be as open to a female version of JFK, Clarence Thomas, or Bill Clinton.  In fact nude male models can and do hold major offices, but no one is going to seriously elect a woman who does the same thing, even in her distant past.

The Right has this weirdness about former beauty queens.  They often run on the perfect fantasy woman principal that is lost on most progressives.  We can’t figure out what looking like a Fox female anchor has to do with competency.  Even June Cleaver knew how to read. The Left is so neurotic and split on its course and agenda, they cannot, as Lisa Simpson so eloquently put it  "even govern ourselves.”  But at least they don’t buy each and every vote with money so reeking of graft it smells like Rand Paul’s hair implants.

Someday, we will get the third party leader, as they said of NEO, “He is the one!” If so, let’s hope he is a she, and a lesbian woman of color who knows everything about the disenfranchised that there is to know.  Then let us hope she can kick obstructionist butt, and still be fiscally responsible enough she could manage a middle class American household.  Someone who can do that, can work miracles.

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