Voting

Today is Voting day here in the good old USA.  You have two selections to make - Democrat or Republican.  Our country is run by the political elite class. Executive branch, Legislative branch and Judicial branch, 546 total people.  Executive branch (2 people) is elected by the states electoral college, Legislative branch is made up of the Senate (100 Senators) and the House of Representatives (435 Representatives) and are elected by the citizens of each state, the Judicial branch (9 Justices) is nominated by the executive branch and confirmed by the legislative branch.

It is not a perfect system and is ripe with corruption and collusion.  Most politicians are lawyers and produce absolutely nothing in their lives.  When it comes right down to it, 3-5 people run this country.  Most legislative branch members vote straight party line once they get to Washington DC. If they do not, then the faucet of money will be shut off for their next campaign and they will most likely lose their coveted position.  We only have term limits on the executive branch.

I've been following politics my entire life. I started to get interested in 1968 as I watched riots and the escalation of the Vietnam War.   I was in 5th grade at the time and I remember an announcement of a brother of one of the kids in our grade school was killed in the Vietnam War, that shocked me and I started reading the daily newspaper and watching the nightly news.  We were told that the war was to fight against the spread of communism, the domino theory - hmmm.

50 years later we have one of the major political parties advocating a form of government that we fought a war against.  Crazy times.

The Democrat political party is advocating Socialism.  The Republican party is not to far off either, they support socialist programs also.  The difference is the Democrats look at Socialism through the individuals eyes and the Republicans look at Socialism through the eyes of big corporate interests.  Both are Socialism - and Socialism leads to Communisms.  Both political ideologies are seriously flawed experiments over the past 100 plus years.

The United States is not a Democracy - it is a Republic and has a written charter or Constitution which specify the rules.  Here is the rub - the 546 people (3-5 important people) we have running the country do not follow the rules.  They also seem to be above the law.

Does your vote really count?  it is hard to tell now a days.

My war is this - I will vote, not for something but against something, I do not vote for a man (humans are flawed in so many ways).  I AM VOTING AGAINST SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM.

Final thought - Socialism is for the people, not the Socialists.