I've been following U.S. presidential cycles for a few decades now. So many presidential candidates are indistinguishable, when it comes right down to it. Sadly, many Christians are duped each and every time into thinking the GOP is "God's Own Party", when it's really just the slightly rightward branch of the uniparty system (the Democrats being the leftward branch).
The only one who has been markedly different was Ron Paul, and the media took every effort to smear him.
Sure. The media is everything in a presidential campaign. That's why candidates raise so much money. To afford the media attention.
And of course we can't forget that the power brokers who buy legislators own the networks. We know what we're told.
Someone who is outside the typical party trench is not to be tolerated. They could shake things up, call it like it is, clean the corruption, end the welfare state, etc...
That's change that would help make us a great nation again. And there are those in power who just can't have that.
I think we have a one party system at this point. They just wear labels to distinguish the game players when it becomes necessary.
And when a candidate who's a real comer who may actually change that good old boy network from the top down gets into the oval to give that a shot, you notice how they're morphed into the old shooter after they meet with the soon to be former president?
It's like that walk of power where, in the case of Bush43 handing over to Obama, the press covered them walking side by side into the White house. And we see that as a hand-off of the old guard unto the new. But once all the hand shaking and the camera's are gone they get down to the real business. And that incumbent is introduced to how it really is.
The mistake, which probably wasn't so in truth, that our forefathers made was at the inception of this country they didn't install term limits on all three branches of power. Washington helped to get term limits for the Presidency. And there is nothing in the Constitution that says the SCOTUS justices sit for life. But to not put term limits on the law makers was a travesty to freedom.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. When our senators can sit till they're 99 years old, the electorates apathy is demonstrated to have become a danger to this republic. We are why we're where we're at today.
And it's a darn shame that that probably isn't going to change. And now it's too late to change it by force, and we're too apathetic to change it at the polls. We re-elect based on loyalty to party and that same old same who we're told we should trust because they know the game.
But their gamesmanship is why life for most of us sucks. But somehow come that November day we forget that.
And they know it.
