14% of the American public has confidence in our congress, which right now is dominated by Democrats. Apparently, the American people are also not pleased with Republicans either or they would not have given the Democrats both the House and the Senate during the last election. What are we to take from this?
The time is prime for a new party to emerge onto stage and replace one of the two converging parties. As much as I have against
Nader running for president (despite that I voted for him in 2000...I'll defend that later if you'd like), the man has some incredibly valid points. For instance, he emphasizes the "ever-increasing corporate power in our society" and "the expanding disconnect between the growth of the economy and the distribution to people who work hard but don't get the fruits of it." That's he problem with the two parties in my opinion, they're both just corporate whores who don't really have the interest of the people on their radar.
In the past, Nader has also had proposals for a "living wage, cracking down on corporate crime against consumers and pensions, not to mention an authentic health insurance agenda." I think that's probably why I voted for him in 2000. I honestly forgot what my reasons were other than Gore and Bush only seeming to differ on the way they spoke to us and I guess the environment too, which I didn't much care about at the time compared to health insurance, living wage, and evil corporations.
Enough of that tangeant though. Nader seems to agree with me though. "You know the two parties are still converging -- they don't even debate the military budget anymore," Nader said in a 30-minute interview. "I really think there needs to be more competition from outside the two parties." I agree with Nader. I just don't think Nader is the competition that is needed. I think we need competition from a legitimate, non-corporate sponsored, third-party. I'm thinking something with 2000's John McCain (not to be confused with the current invertebrate running for president), Howard Dean, Arlen Specter, Ron Paul, Mike Gravel, and a bunch of others who clearly aren't corporate whores on any level and aren't afraid to stand up to the man, corporations, or their party. Clearly, we would need a party where the members have some views in common, so my suggestions wouldn't work. What we need though is a non-corporate sponsored party of people who genuinely want to make America a better place and have a backbone. We need those types of people to organize a party. Now is the time! Hopefully someone will emerge as leader of this movement. Put out the word to all! Please.
Note: Although I agree with Barak Obama that the Christian right/evangelical Christians have
'hijacked' faith, why doesn't he or anyone else have the balls to say that corporate America has 'hijacked' politics/the U.S. government? Oh, I know! Because it's easy to attack the Christian right as a Democrat, but not too easy to attack those who fund you. Silly me for thinking politicians should be something more than...politicians. Eh, I'm definitely remembering why I voted Nader in 2000. Hopefully we'll won't be given the option between Tweedledee and Tweedledumber or even worse between Tweedledumber and a war-hero who couldn't politically defend himself if his life depended on it.
