The Throw-Away Vote

It is a hard decision to depart the Democratic Party, but do not be mistaken that it is a throw away vote to reregister or vote with a Third Party. Perhaps it is a throw away to the Democrat or Republican Party politicians and voters that need it.

Many of those decisions to leave a major party are not just made on the emotionalism that often comes with social equality issues, that just happen to get pulled out in every major election cycle: It is immigration reform or lack thereof this year if no one has noticed. Seems the Democrats would have overturned DADT by now as their ace in the hole.

Whether one agrees with the economic theories or not, many of those decisions to leave the Two Party System are made on the practicality of economic principle that posit they can provide people more economic thus social choice in the long run.

Obama and this Congress have not so much thrown his so-called base under the bus as we are hearing more liberal pundits and Obama voters say. The Democratic Party as a whole has thrown a greater percentage of what used to be the Democratic Party base under the bus. For example, some Democrats still believe that Medicare and Social Security is not just a Democratic ideal. It is the Democratic Party.

Many of those people that voted for Obama really were progressives. Many that voted for Hillary really were progressives. Many were fully aware that neither Obama or Hillary was no Bernie Sanders, but both were seeking an alternative to a right of center nation. Both were seeking just to get back to center. The people that thought we would be left of center after this Democratic reign were just delusional.

A growing percentage of progressive Democrats have now woken up to the reality that they were had. It really no longer matters who woke up first. Once you realize you were had, you are now pretty much on the same page. The economic policies began to reflect and just further confirmed that corporatism was not what we were fighting for.

The talk of usurpation by our founding fathers was not about private property being taken over by communal property. It was about the movement toward and establishment of an oligarchy, or what a few are now coming to understand as Corporatism.

A few still call it Fascism, now mostly thrown at Obama, but the term was thrown at Bush as well. Both voices are incorrect that Obama and Bush are Fascists. The founding fathers worried about, not so much a dictator, but a dictatorial economic system that can only be established by the government as a whole.

It mattered not what party was in power then or now, because it was the power of policy as a whole that could only make that happen. If a dictator is created, it is not the evil genus of just one person that figured out how to usurp an entire system. It takes the power and force and votes for policy by all those in political power. A corporate personhood vote that trumps the vote from a person is the very epidemic of economic and social injustice.

Take the Bank Bailouts as just one example. It took the power and force of our government backed by corporations joined with the power and force of corporations backed by our government to make that happen: Hence the term corporatism. Corporatism was forced upon the people, because the reality was that such powers had created an economic system that really was Too Big Too Fail.

The practical attempts by Third Parties are to try to force the parties that have departed from their core principles to remember the core principles. A Government bailing out capitalism was not what the Republican Party was founded upon. Their failsafe was bankruptcy. A Government bailing out a corporation was not how the Democratic Party grew. Job creation through public works program was their failsafe.

Privatization of Medicare and Social Security will never be the way to get back to the core economic principles of the Democratic Party. The Democrats new health care bill is nothing more than the Medicare and Modernization Act of 2003 on steroids.

Democrats just extended the privatization and misuse of tax dollars to the greater whole, and on the backs of a woman’s right of personal choice and economic equality within that very same health care system to boot. But when Bush came up with tampering with Medicare and privatization of a percentage of Social Security or raising the retirement age and his 11th hour conscience clause, oh the horror!

While Republicans scream “socialism”, the farther left scratches their head as to how misinformed Republicans are. While Democrats say, “We had to start somewhere” even if that meant not even a public option, the farther left scratches their head as to how misinformed the Democrats are. But, we not only scratch our heads, we know and are heartbroken that the very thing we, and our Constitution, warned us of is settling in to stay.

The people no longer have monopoly capitalism to fight for or against or just some meager public option to fight for or against. The people have the economic system of corporatism. The sooner that the public understands our newly grounded economic system and begin to call it by name, perhaps the sooner they will know the real enemy created by both Democrats and Republicans.

The far left was not so impractical to think that socialism would overtake America that was founded on private property. We were practical enough to know when the real enemy rears its ugly head, the people, as a whole, would not know how to fight it. The people would be in a real state of fear of knowing that something has gone terribly wrong. Revolutions, not against the oligarchy that put them in this position, but each other, get started in such ways.

I think there were more Third Party progressives that came back for 2008 to push from the left from within the system than what many Democrats realize. Does it really matter that we push from the left from without or within the system? Can’t Democrats work within and a Green or Independent work without to achieve the same goals? Isn’t it really progressive policies that both desperately want our economic and social system to reflect?

Sometimes from the outside looking in, from someone that has been working with Democrats and looking from within for the last couple of years, it really does appear that Democrats and Republicans alike fear the rise of Third Party more than they do each other. Apparently fear wields power: Democrats and Republicans use it in every single election cycle.

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