“Republocrats” provide U.S. with one-party system

They say in twelve-step programs that the first step out of an addiction is to admit to yourself that you do indeed have a problem. One of the main things that keeps We The People under the control of the central banking cabal is the fact that too many of us have not admitted that we have a problem. We go through life reading the mainstream news and watching their television networks, and we see and hear about all of this feverish debate and apparent acrimony between Democratic and Republican politicians. Because we see these apparent differences being aired out in public, we wind up taking sides and developing loyalties. This is a mistake, and it is this very naive, but understandable world view that keeps us powerless.

A book could be written on this subject, but let’s boil it down real simply. During the last election cycle,

there were two issues that the People cared about: the wars, and the economy. The Democrats had to try to draw some distinction between themselves and the Republicans, so they pretended they were going to get out of the wars at first, and they pointed a finger at the Bush administration as being responsible for the country’s economic woes (these actually started with GATT and NAFTA under Clinton).

As the primaries got down to crunch time, and Obama was emerging as a viable possibility, his rhetoric changed. He bowed down to AIPAC, calling Israel’s influence inside of Washington “sacrosanct.” He then started to articulate how dangerous things were in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and it was then that you knew that our troops were not coming home regardless of who was elected. Once Obama and McCain were nominated, and the urgency of the so-called financial crisis reached a head, both he and McCain agreed that bailouts were necessary.

The contention here is that We The People considered the last presidential election to be a mandate on the war and the economy. The Secretary of Defense is charged with managing the wars; the head of the Federal Reserve is in charge of economic policy (you thought it was the U.S. Treasury Secretary?). These are both appointed positions, of course. When We The People voted for change in the person of Obama, we got the same Secretary of Defense that we had under Bush: Robert Gates. We also have the same Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernake, who just won a second term via a Senate vote a couple of weeks ago.

Even if you are a Republican who voted for Bush twice and then voted for McCain, and you’re glad that Gates and Bernake are still in place, you have to agree that the voters had no choice on the issues that mattered the most to them. This is the state of affairs in our country. It is time to collectively take that first step and recognize that we do indeed have a problem.