My friend Neely had posted today that anyone contributing to Obama's campaign, let her know so she could punch them in the face, lol. I didn't respond, but had feelings about it. Then I got a junk email in my inbox from the Obama campaign and I felt like I needed to do something.
My political views have changed drastically in the past year. I have been mostly democrat all my life, but I was very passionate about supporting Obama's campaign in 2008. Since then, my political ideology has changed drastically and I have all but unplugged from politics, news and tv as much as possible. I decided today to unsubscribe from the campaign. I have been deleting the emails for the past year anyway, but it was more than that. So when I went to unsubscribe it gave me an option to leave a comment as to why, and boy did I. Here is what I wrote:
"I was passionately involved with your campaign but your cry of change has been snuffed out by the corruption of Washington. You have not held those accountable who collapsed our financial system but only served to reward them, which is just one of a thousand things still left undone. You were my last hope for change. I believed the words that came from your mouth. I no longer believe any political party is capable of making change and I feel the only way to have an impact on my government is through prayer.
You know, I am so personally disappointed by you. You have the power to shift the tides of power in our government away from the corporations and back to the people, but you don't follow your convictions. If you focused your entire campaign on abolishing campaign financing you would change everything. It's news, news stations will cover it. The message will get out there. It is the campaign contributions that are putting all of our elected officials in prison to the promises they make to the most powerful and greedy among us. Until that chain of command ends, there will never be change beyond window dressing in our country.
If you came out and said, "I know change has not come the way I had envisioned and thought that it could, I know that I made promises I couldn't keep, and that is why I am focusing my campaign 100% on taking the voice of corporations out of our voting process completely, I want to abolish campaign contributions from EVERYONE. We can hold town meetings and debate openly for people to get to know us and where we stand on the issues. Every avenue of sustainable change in our country is in limbo because corporations control our government." Yes it is political suicide, yes it would most likely backfire and you would most likely lose. But if you had the courage to stand for just that one thing to end the corruption and expose it once and for all, initiate TRUE TRANSPARENCY, you would change the tide of our political process forever. Include yourself in the conversation as you expose the corruption!! Confess the concessions you have had to make, be honest about how the system turns even the most bright-eyed and hopefully among you and lead them to compromise every moral, every stance, every belief. You would force the puppet candidates to up their game; no longer would the dog and pony dances be enough to satisfy the cry of the people. You would restore respect to the highest office in our nation and eradicate the status quo.
Anything less than that and I can't commit my support to you or anyone else. I used to believe that one party was better than another and I was with the party I felt served the needs of the common citizen most often. But it's a lie. There is no lesser of two evils in my mind anymore; it is evil vs. evil with the most evil most likely prevailing. Only God has the power to change this corrupt system, and only a man convicted by God will have the courage to try."
I don't know which of my friends are democrats and which are republican. I don't know which hate Obama and which support him. And honestly, I don't care. There is no current political party that I can personally identify with anymore or that supports (and follows through with) my ideology and beliefs. But it does upset me when I see people I like or love making blanket statements in either direction about this candidate or that. Because, unless you have a suggestion for improvement to back up your statement, then you are adding to the problem, not helping to find the solution. You may not agree with me (and you don't have to), but the reality that our political system is entirely corrupt is undeniable, and if you don't think that money and power and greed will continue to reign in the halls of congress and the White House, if you don't confront the reality that the top 1% earners in our country own our government, then you are missing the forrest for the trees, you are living in a tunnel vision inspired reality that has devastating consequences to our future.
Wow, that was a great point of view and so well written! I hope that gets you some kind of reply from the campaign. But the truth hurts and sometimes when it does, it just gets stuffed elsewhere. You rock girlfriend!
ReplyDeleteThanks. I don't expect a reply from the administration but I felt obligated to do more than write it all off without making my opinion known. I just wish more people in charge would feel driven by their convictions and that their word means something. People feel so disenfranchised by the system that they opt out and leave their voice to the radicals on each side who aren't interested in fixing what wrong but in pushing their own agendas. Thanks for voicing your opinions!!
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