40.6 billion reasons to vote against incumbents?
$40.6 billion in profit in one yearSo, ExxonMobil profited $40.6 billion dollars this year. That's plenty of money to keep buying Congress, as oil companies have been doing for decades. But I don't care about $40.6 billion.
Despite the fact that the military-industrial complex that runs our government via cheap oil has created two wars in the Middle East, 9/11, massive pollution, etc., etc., not one mainstream politician is talking real change - accepting the real world costs of oil dependency, especially foreign oil dependency - let alone the environmental costs.
OUR government has failed us. Democrats have run Congress and the White House. Republicans have run Congress and the White House. Yet, little has ever changed. Time to vote against all incumbents?
Labels: Foreign Oil Dependency
posted by Dahcredyns at
8:55 AM
3 Comments:
Voting against incumbents is an interesting idea, but I don't think it will resonate with voters. Besides, voters don't really think about Congress much, it's all about the President.
Let's get a Democrat in the White House and a few more seats in Congress, and I think you'll start seeing real change.
The major political parties are both clubs that shun truly new ideas. The federal government is also too large to efficiently manage. We need to take a fresher look at more efficient distribution of power. Both in terms of geography and organizations. THAT is the future of democracy. Just think how foreign our representative government would look to serfs in the middle ages. We need to envision as much difference in government forward from where we are. People don't even recognize that there's a box to think outside of.
I say diffusing federal control to regional, state, or even city-state level is the way to go. It will be interesting to see if a model like the EU would fit on this side of the pond. Its the control of the Republicans AND the Democrats at the federal level that is ridiculous. In a land of almost 300 million people, a choice between two?!
kp-
reading your post made me instantly think of california's tailpipe waiver.
i wonder what chance there is that the people will demand more power when "it's all about the President" for most voters? that makes your serf analogy interesting because it seems we still do live in a kingdom.
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