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Word on the Street by Bill McClellan
The Hard Truth To be clear, America is not a democracy. “GERRYMANDERING” is the commandeering of democracy allowing leaders to choose voters rather than voters choosing leaders. It permeates America, and exists vastly to the naivety of the public, and is “directly” due to bribery in government. Bribery causes an immoral and low-quality leadership willing to violate our sacred tenets and destroy our land for money and power. This has been achieved. There are tragic truths about America that have gradually evolved in recent decades that are not only decimating our great moral pursuit of equality, but are ending the great example we were setting for the world to become a place of care and fairness.
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We are no longer the beacon for mankind. We have lost the integrity and quality of thought compatible with our Constitution. The Constitution was our path, our hope to be better and to embrace and respect all of humankind. The clear intent in this great hope has been circumvented providing a course for a smart, dispassionate, and greedy few to achieve wealth and power beyond all measure. To be very clear: If money is removed from politics, you will draw principled patriots with integrity. And if there is no money (etc.) other than what they should properly receive there will be no bribery. The abuse of the stock market by Congress is a current glaring example of how shameful they have become. This is clear robbery from the nation. The removal of money and favor must be codified into law so the very many forms of bribery are not allowed. As long as the likes of pharmaceuticals, tobacco, the NRA, big oil, and everyone else can simply bribe leaders, we have no hope. Look around you. The evidence is clear and everywhere. You can’t even get a law passed to make the sale of an AR-15 to the mentally disturbed illegal. Big pharma and tobacco are allowed to drug us to death by the millions and a few thousand oil executives are allowed design process to destroy earth as we know it. Except for a very few, we have drawn the worst among us to lead. This land, born with such great intent, has become a land represented by greed and power and cruelty that cause our allies to cringe, and our enemies to dance with glee. A land whose glaring beacon has become being the leader in incarcerations (two million citizens – geared for punishment rather that correction). An insane number of unnecessary jailings that massively surpass Russia, China, Iran and frankly all other lands. When you research this system, you find it is saturated by unnecessary cold blooded, merciless dispassion. The world has come to see we evolved into this land of human rights violation, and under this leading shameful veneer of unaddressed human horror lies a full reservoir of vast human suffering and destroyed justice designed to serve the rich. Money in politics is the tool that insured the success of this systemic poisoning. It is the {“SINGLE”} tool that guarantees the perpetuation of evil process that wealth has designed. These are very hard truths. Hard for an American to take. Many will strongly resent what I offer as it offends both parties and all that we want to believe. But resentment does not alter truth. The systems that inform us are corrupt. Our collective mindset is absent essential truths. Our constitution established the genesis and method for the emergence of pursuit worthy of our humanity. That is equality and a democratic process. This is the pursuit we needed to be deserved of our significantly evolved place on this earth. For that pursuit to be achieved it was realized that being guided by one person would restrict us to the belief system of that person. Realizing our collective mindset needed the representation of good and decent leaders and that autocracy was a path to failure, the idea of the collective electing their leadership became part of our great founding. Due to bribery alone our pursuit has been decimated. Bribery has decimated truth and we are guided by a media that is submerged in the pursuit of lies for money
“The Constitution was our path, our hope to be better and to embrace and respect all of humankind.”