Contemplating Political Change Versus Moral Revolution

In the United States today, politics is a drug; it is a distraction designed to divert the people's energies into acceptable channels; it is the new opiate of the masses--though, in terms of actual effectiveness, it is but a placebo.

The 2-Party system is wired as tight as the Politburo. Indeed, what we have in practice is a mono-party with "conservative" and "liberal" wings. What is essential to understand is that the outcome of every election to an important post is predetermined by the monoparty establishment. Yeah, sure, like I was told as a child, anybody can run for President in the United States. Yee-haw! But every four years only one of two individuals will be elected President and those two individuals are selected and vetted by the monoparty. Sure, we have freedom of choice in the United States; what'll it be? Coke or Pepsi?

I don't mean to put too fine a point on this, but there is an authentic sense in which every important election in this country is fixed. And that still isn't good enough for some of the monoparty's career criminals--i.e., those who want to mess with the ballot system.

Then there is the Electoral College. The Framers of the Constitution were only too well aware of the wisdom that resides in the American people to trust it. They felt the need to put in place a safety valve--one that would allow for an intervention on the part of the ruling elite should something somehow go terribly wrong with the tightly wired system they had devised for sharing power among themselves. The results of the elections of 2000 and 2004 demonstrate that their fears were groundless. In 2000, the Electoral College dutifully ratified the United States Supreme Court's choice of George W. Bush over the popularly elected Al Gore and in 2004 the College dutifully ratified the people's choice of the same George W. Bush despite a record over the previous four years that demonstrated his utter contempt for the Bill of Rights at home and human rights abroad. Really, the system works like a charm.

Only a non-violent moral revolution will awaken the American people to the predicament of pseudemocracy. The MIC is in the driver's seat. We must remove it and then call for a new constitutional convention that will dismantle the 2-party system in favor of a multi-party parliamentary democracy--or whatever else may appear to be an appropriate choice to the generation that will reap the rewards of the non-violent moral revolution. I don't expect to see such a constitutional convention in my lifetime. I am dedicating my efforts to the moral revolution that is its necessary pre-requisite.