I'm not really into politics. If you were to ask me what was happening in Washington on any given day, I would look at you blankly and ask you "What?"
But it's an election year. There's no escaping it. And the one most of the people I speak to on a daily basis want to be in the Presidency isn't doing well with the big money "superdelegates", and big money is the biggest reason why the popular vote no longer counts for anything any more...
And the other reason hinges on a pair of words that to some mean the return to things as they used to be BEFORE big money took over our country....and to others, the same two words mean we're all going to Hell in a handbasket:
Democratic Socialism
If one looks it up in a dictionary, this would be the definition:
Democratic socialism is a political ideology advocating a democratic political system alongside a socialist economic system, involving a combination of political democracy with social ownership of the means of production. Sometimes used synonymously with "socialism", the adjective "democratic" is often added to distinguish itself from the Marxist-Leninist brand of socialism, which is widely viewed as being non-democratic (from Wikipedia)
Now, to me, this kind of goes hand in hand with how the country was MEANT to be run when our forefathers and our first ever President, George Washington, were getting everyone working in unison to chase out the British and establish a new nation. But I took a lovely class in my senior year of high school called "Worldisms". I know how to tell the difference from one of those other -isms that some people think is socialism:
Marxism: The political, economic, and social theories of Karl Marx including the belief that the struggle between social classes is a major force in history and that there should eventually be a society in which there are no classes. (Merriam Webster Dictionary)
Or even worse, they insist it is the same as:
Communism: a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property. (once again, Merriam Webster)
Their solution to the cry that we need the government to stop allowing the already rich to just keep getting richer and pay their fair shaire with people who display a few other of those -isms I learned about.
Fascism: a way of organizing society in which a government, ruled by a dictator, controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government. )
One hopeful candidates has said "I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money." in response to negative press. The scary part is that no one seems to realize that the President can't just make laws...
Racism: Do I really have to define this?
But I suspect the worst of the election year has to be the debates, especially with some of the candidates we've had.
When I was a child and we only had three stations that came in on the old rabbit ears (held on the head of the tricerotops, for those who wish to believe that living in such times was absolutely primitive), I used to watch the debates because they were on all three stations. They were calm. They were polite. They were dignified. Each candidate was given questions to answer and a moderator controlled the whole show as each strove to describe what he could do to help the country become a better place.
Watching even a few minutes of this year's debates is like watching a train wreck in action. Calm? The candidates yell over each other. Polite? Name calling is the least of the foulness displayed. Dignified? These candidates wouldn't know the word if it walked up behind them and took a chunk out of their rich derrieres!
I've been allowed to vote since 1979, but each time I need to assist my country in putting someone into a special place we call The Oval Office, I get more and more depressed. The more history I read in research for an historical romance I'm writing, the more depressed I get about what this country has become and the fact that we no longer seem to be a country By the People, For the People, but more of a land of rich people buying the vote so that they can continue to get richer while the poor are ground under their heels.
We the People, if you happen to be the party that calls themselves Democrats, can be voted down by a group of Superdelegates, who pretty much have already chosen who will represent the Democrat side even before the popular vote is finished. In the general election, it isn't the popular vote that choses the President any more, it's the points earned in the Electoral College.
Perhaps it's time for me to practice one more -ism:
Escapism: a mental dicversion by means of entertainment of recreation, as an "escape" or dissociation from the pereived unpleasantries of daily life. (kind of Wikipedia, but edited)
But it's an election year. There's no escaping it. And the one most of the people I speak to on a daily basis want to be in the Presidency isn't doing well with the big money "superdelegates", and big money is the biggest reason why the popular vote no longer counts for anything any more...
And the other reason hinges on a pair of words that to some mean the return to things as they used to be BEFORE big money took over our country....and to others, the same two words mean we're all going to Hell in a handbasket:
Democratic Socialism
If one looks it up in a dictionary, this would be the definition:
Democratic socialism is a political ideology advocating a democratic political system alongside a socialist economic system, involving a combination of political democracy with social ownership of the means of production. Sometimes used synonymously with "socialism", the adjective "democratic" is often added to distinguish itself from the Marxist-Leninist brand of socialism, which is widely viewed as being non-democratic (from Wikipedia)
Now, to me, this kind of goes hand in hand with how the country was MEANT to be run when our forefathers and our first ever President, George Washington, were getting everyone working in unison to chase out the British and establish a new nation. But I took a lovely class in my senior year of high school called "Worldisms". I know how to tell the difference from one of those other -isms that some people think is socialism:
Marxism: The political, economic, and social theories of Karl Marx including the belief that the struggle between social classes is a major force in history and that there should eventually be a society in which there are no classes. (Merriam Webster Dictionary)
Or even worse, they insist it is the same as:
Communism: a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property. (once again, Merriam Webster)
Their solution to the cry that we need the government to stop allowing the already rich to just keep getting richer and pay their fair shaire with people who display a few other of those -isms I learned about.
Fascism: a way of organizing society in which a government, ruled by a dictator, controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government. )
One hopeful candidates has said "I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money." in response to negative press. The scary part is that no one seems to realize that the President can't just make laws...
Racism: Do I really have to define this?
But I suspect the worst of the election year has to be the debates, especially with some of the candidates we've had.
When I was a child and we only had three stations that came in on the old rabbit ears (held on the head of the tricerotops, for those who wish to believe that living in such times was absolutely primitive), I used to watch the debates because they were on all three stations. They were calm. They were polite. They were dignified. Each candidate was given questions to answer and a moderator controlled the whole show as each strove to describe what he could do to help the country become a better place.
Watching even a few minutes of this year's debates is like watching a train wreck in action. Calm? The candidates yell over each other. Polite? Name calling is the least of the foulness displayed. Dignified? These candidates wouldn't know the word if it walked up behind them and took a chunk out of their rich derrieres!
I've been allowed to vote since 1979, but each time I need to assist my country in putting someone into a special place we call The Oval Office, I get more and more depressed. The more history I read in research for an historical romance I'm writing, the more depressed I get about what this country has become and the fact that we no longer seem to be a country By the People, For the People, but more of a land of rich people buying the vote so that they can continue to get richer while the poor are ground under their heels.
We the People, if you happen to be the party that calls themselves Democrats, can be voted down by a group of Superdelegates, who pretty much have already chosen who will represent the Democrat side even before the popular vote is finished. In the general election, it isn't the popular vote that choses the President any more, it's the points earned in the Electoral College.
Perhaps it's time for me to practice one more -ism:
Escapism: a mental dicversion by means of entertainment of recreation, as an "escape" or dissociation from the pereived unpleasantries of daily life. (kind of Wikipedia, but edited)
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