The key solution to our broken system (campaign finance and election reform and ending corporate 'personhood') isn't on Democrats' agenda and won't be.
Any party that doesn't have that as their first order of business (particularly after the Citizens United decision and the overwhelming public support for reform) is d!rty, r0tten and corrupt to the bone.
I'm an old, lifelong Democrat saying that. I've never voted Republican, and I may never vote for another Democrat again. But I think it may be too late for that, for this "noble experiment" (continuing the US as we've known it and as it was intended (a democratic republic) by the framers.
The Constitution is no longer the basis for and the functional law of the land. The Constitution is no longer much respected in Congress, the Executive Branch, the SupremeCourt nor in law or business. That might have been remedied had Obama come into office investigating and prosecuting the Bush administration and restoring the 'rule of law'. BushCheney exploited the inherent weaknesses in the Constitution: The precarious balance of power between the three branches of government. But Obama refused, and has continued the BushCheney disregard of the Constitution and even gone beyond BushCheney abuses.
As president, you've got to really want the US to work, to exist, to not exploit the loopholes in the Constitution that keep our three-branches of government precariously balancing the democracy. But BushCheney drove tanks through the loopholes, breaking the law and with no apparent concern for exposing the loopholes or any consequences.
That fact alone casts suspicion on Obama's good intentions after his failure to investigate and prosecute and his continuing Bush's 'unitary executive' practices (and expanding them, with "indefinite preventive detention" of American citizens and the k!IIing of Americans with no due process or oversight).
There was a coup d'etat in this nation, a bloodless one, but a coup nonetheless. And both parties are in on it.
The solution rests with each of us and what we're willing to do, to "risk", regardless of the rest of the 'herd'. If you think that Republicans are worse, if you don't realize that Republicans and Democrats work together in a 'good cop/bad cop' dance to further the interests of transnational corporations, then it'll be more of the same until we're all squeezed dry and living like Haitians.
If you think that Republicans are worse, you're going to continue voting for Democrats -- So why should Obama and Democrats do anything for you? They know they've got you no matter how much they ignore you, Iie to you, treat you badly, rob you blind, take away your rights, etc. Dr. Phil would tell you to get out of a marriage like that.
About Eric Holder
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