Saving Democracy
The democratic message in these mid-term elections wasn't about how they were planning on bringing down food prices, it wasn't about lowing the price of gas, it wasn't about making health care more affordable, it wasn't about creating more jobs, it was about saving democracy and the only way to save it was to vote Democrat.
If you vote for someone who thought that the 2020 election was stolen by Joe Biden, you were voting to kill democracy and who wants to have that kind of thing on their conscience. Who wants to be to one to blame when totalitarian dictators take over the country because you failed to save democracy.
Saving democracy is worth not helping the homeless in the richest country on Earth. Saving democracy is worth it when people have to work 2 or 3 jobs just to keep food on the table and gas in their cars and judging by the early results, you all came through when you needed to. You rose to the challenge and didn't let those who threaten our very way of life win.
I hate to break this kind of news, but the democrats lied to you. All of you who thought democracy was in trouble and fought valiantly with your vote did it all for nothing. The reason is because we don't live in a democracy, we never have. Everyone who told you we did was lying to you either on purpose or because they didn't know any better. We live in a representative republic. What that means is that we vote for people who go to Washington, participate in government and represent us, the people, and our interests. That's not democracy and it never has been, but I have more bad news, the republic died over a century ago.
This is what really happens, we elect people to go to Washington to represent us. Those people go to Washington and instead of representing us, they represent themselves by making themselves rich. If you doubt me on this, just check the wealth of members of congress before they enter politics with the wealth they have now and see if the difference is their congressional salary. The dirty little secret (which isn't really a secret) is that it doesn't really matter who you vote for because the people who really run things aren't going anywhere.
There are already people who are insisting that these midterms have been stolen and there are those who are already insisting the next presidential election has already been stolen but does that really matter when the people running the government don't really represent us, ordinary people. Does it really matter if you exchange one task master for another.
The powers that be like to keep us divided by inciting race and gender inequalities. Do you know what you don't hear? You don't hear how the working class is being used to generate wealth and that wealth is being stolen from them. The corporate media isn't interested in that discussion.
There was a group that got a militant black group and a white nationalist group together and started a dialogue between them. The funny thing is when this group started talking about class issues, the black militant group and the white nationalist group was in complete agreement. When you talk about class issues, you unite the working class regardless of race or gender and that's why those discussions are considered a threat to national security. You will never hear FOX or MSNBC or CNN talk about class issues in any meaningful way.
So, for those of you who saved democracy but are still living paycheck to paycheck, you heeded the call and saved democracy, good job, unless of course you really didn't and this was just another manufactured election like all the ones that proceeded it, but then that would be denying a completely legitimate election process and that kind of thing is what kills democracy in the first place.