The day after the 2010 Elections, what some have described as a “political earthquake,” will be no different from the day before. At least not when it comes to the real problems that plague average Americans like you and me.
Sure, the Democrats will have lost some vital seats and the Republicans, powered by Tea Party activists, will have gained enough to claim a “comeback.” But the government as we have come to know it—corrupt, bloated and controlled by big-money corporations, lobbyists and special interest groups—will be largely unchanged. And “we the people”—overtaxed, overpoliced, overburdened by big government, underrepresented by those who should speak for us and blissfully ignorant of the prison walls closing in on us—will continue to trudge along a path of misery.
With the surveillance state now in place, government agents will continue to track our whereabouts, whether it be through our computers, cell phones, GPS systems or mobile scanners sent to patrol cities and neighborhoods. Americans will still find it hard to pay their mortgages and get jobs. Travelers will continue to be subjected to a bureaucratic nightmare in airports—body scanners, aggressive patdowns, random searches and inhuman regulations—simply because they want to fly from Point A to Point B. The office of the president will continue to expand far beyond the borders of the Constitution, aided by an inept Congress that fails to provide oversight to the president and the numerous bureaucratic agencies that periodically terrorize average Americans. Aggressive war spending which has put the government on the brink of bankruptcy will continue to bleed us dry, all the while the military industrial complex continues to direct both foreign and domestic policies.
Are you willing to be a gadfly? Or are you going to continue to play their game and passively sit on the sidelines and wait for the next so-called “political earthquake” to shake things up?
