America’s Two Party System?

Only 60% of Americans vote in the Presidential Elections and only 40% of people vote in midterm elections. This is a sad statistic. I hear people all over the country talking about a revolution, government is corrupt we need to change the system. But then we go out and vote in the 40% and expect a change? We need to get everyone in the country voting again, and voting for 3rd party candidates. The only way to make a change about this country to change the vote. No politician has any power if there are no citizens to vote for them. It is time for a voting revolution in America. Operation wake up the vote.

Starting in 2000 Republicans raised spending 60% from the end of the Clinton Presidency; from $2.0 trillion to $3.2 trillion. They enacted the biggest increase in Medicare spending since Lindon B. Johnson with Medicare Part D. They enacted the largest increase in federal control of education with No Child Left Behind. This was with a Republican Congress in 6 of his 8 under President Bush. In fact, The Republican Party has controlled the United States House of Representatives, which controls spending, for 16 of the last 20 years. Soon to be 18 of 22. You may here plenty of talk in the upcoming elections of cutting spending and reducing the debt, but do not let the Republicans fool you. The Republicans are not a party responsible spending and have no modern record of cutting anything. All of this is not to mention the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security, the establishment of the T.S.A, the passing of the Patriot Act, and the fact that the last 2 Republican Presidents are responsible for starting 3 different wars.

On the other side We have the Democrats. The Democrats have only continued to raise spending from the end of the Bush administration. They have continued to expand Federal control of education through common core. They have advanced upon the Republican expansion of Medicaid to include federal health insurance. Did you know the process of the bail out under Obama was initiated and planned for under the Bush administration? Some other facts to consider: In just six years 70% of our total national debt has been added by Obama. The Democrats have passed the largest tax in the history of the United States in the form of the Affordable Care Act. In the first 6 years under President Obama our debt to gross domestic product ratio has increased from 64% to 101%. America no longer produces enough goods to cover the cost of money we spend. On top of this America has an unprecedented 58 million people dependent on government in the form of food stamps. Meanwhile welfare benefits have swelled and the number of Americans living in poverty has increased from 12% in 2008 to 15% in 2014.

The popular media in this country tears us apart on issues of religion, abortion, gay rights or racism and America abides. Indeed a nation divided against itself cannot stand. The more divided the people of the country become, the more powerful the government becomes. We fight, hate and protest one another all the while our country is being torn apart from within. We have allowed the government to seize control of our education system through no child left behind and now through common core; literally re-writing how history will be taught to future generations. Out of fear we have enabled congress the department of defense, homeland security and NSA to legally surveil every United States citizens without their knowledge. We have engaged in new wars decreasing our global standing. We have passed laws permitting the detention of United States citizens without Habeas Corpus. Drones fly freely within the United States, the department of defense directly funds local governments to militarize our police.

We the people have allowed this to happen. This is our government, we have created this. Citizens have become so wrapped up in the differences which divide us that we have become blind to the fact that neither political party is any different. The root problem in American politics is that both political parties have failed us. Our government, not our constitution, is failing us. We are failing ourselves. The people of this country have become so polarized against one another that we have prevented ourselves from all standing up together as one.

The American people have been distracted from the truth, we have come to believe that the government is in control of our lives and have forgotten the fundamental truth this is a government of the people. It was never the purpose of the government to have this much power over its citizens. We the people give the power to our government, we the people have the power to throw our elected representatives out of power peacefully with our electoral system, we the people fund the government through our taxes. The people have the power over the government, the government does not have power over us.

American citizens need to step up to the table and take back control of this country. The people do no longer understand their true power. We must not sit back and accept the two party system. It is time for this system to end. American citizens need to become more engaged in politics and stop accepting the notion they only have two choices in the voting booth. There are a multitude of qualified third party candidates in the United States. Changing the direction of American politics begins at the citizen level. No politician can hold any power if there are not people to vote for them. I urge everyone who reads this to begin exploring candidates and casting votes outside of Republicans and Democratic Party. One vote at a time we can change the system.