Do you vote for a political party that steals?
Do you vote for a political party that lies?
Are you apathetic?
Do you vote for who you believe in? or do you vote for the ones that corporate America places before you?
You didn't know what corporate America doesn't want you to know.
What you vote for that hurts corporate America this year, will be altered or never take effect. Corporate bribes are constant and their attention to detail survives the test of time. When you are not looking, they will change laws they don't like back to the way they like it and you won't even know it happened.
When you vote, or vote for Democrats and Republicans, you send a very strong message that you are willing to accept what Corporate America wants you to accept.
The fact is that you probably don't know any better. Like a child that puts their hand in the fire or takes up smoking, you continue, because you do what Corporate America tells you to. You simply say, "how high?" By the time you figure it all out, you're 100 years old and damn near powerless to do anything about it.
You put the kids through public school. (Aren't you proud?) They'll probably grow up to be advocates of the Corporate status quo, or better yet lobbyists getting paid the big bucks to further the corporate cause! You have shown them how you vote for people with horrific voting records themselves and for people who have criminal records that are often worse. You may have done what the system told you to do and marched down to the polls to vote for someone you knew very little about because frankly your education comes only from Rush Limbaugh or some other talk show host or the corporate shill called the media. You probably couldn't be more proud. Frankly, you might as well have smoked crack and cigarettes in front of them....or perhaps you're one of those do as I say and not as I do types????
Michael P. Murphy 1/9/01
Author - The Greens
Watch for the upcoming novel - The Corporation
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