United States Political Parties
I have a few point's that I will headline
1. Political Party Campaign Contributions
2. Lobbying Corporate & NGO-NPO & Religious Institutions
3. Electoral College
4. Lack of Middle class goals, & International representation
5. Non Democratic Institutions in a democratic society
So to my first point. There is a list on wikepedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States of the varied political parties. To be clear, I don't identify with a party currently, I am making a decision soon, many of my friends say that I am leaning towards Libertarian, and I cannot deny that. I appreciate there ideology and many of it's Party members. But to speak to the point. Campaign contributions further poison the monetized system of campaigning giving leverage to the victor of the fundraising race, when it is not a proper nor moral indicator of appropriate skills required in order to operate the job of governmental representative for these towns, states, and this country. The status quo has it that parties select there nominee through debate, then they go on a campaign spending spree in advertising in order to convince us with the worst tactics they can manifest in trash talk slander. We watch these deplorable campaigns for weeks until we choose the lesser of two evils. The majority of the parties which are not represented by a popular vote nor any significant presence in the political system as it stands, do not take campaign contributions from corporations.
This is my point. Corporations, entities which represent interest far different from a citizen, who fuel this continued onslaught of political character assassination in order to maintain the status quo of back door deals in order to push legislation with corporate interests kept in tact by campaign funds and ear marks. I don't want to stand in the streets in protest, this is just the way business is done, but there is no political morality to it. We need to hold our leaders to a higher standard. If a hypothesis be the simplest term to use, I would propose that pure debate by the parties be the only allowable form of advertising, and that all lobbying and non-citizen contributions to political parties be outlawed. This would impact the style and format and provide the vacuum needed to allow a contest for the best leader of all positions related to Public Office.
As to my second point on Non-Government Monetized Organizations, Non Profits, and Religious Organizations, who pump high percentages of there congregations monies into political campaigns, and coalitions with political interests, who receive tax incentives. This is detrimental to a political process who's aim is to be by the people and for the people, when minority interests can be amplified by the volume of revenue they pump into the political process, weather they be corporate, religious, non religious, or other-said non entity which is defined as a citizen of the united states. If the interests of banks were solving social issues we would be in Paradise and walking roads paved of gold. We are the people.
Third the Electoral College, and it's sheer competition against the popular vote, further ruins the intention that the people's vote is what decides the outcome of it's leadership. We are a hybrid democracy, we know this is the obvious, but is it correct and should it withstand. We are the people right?
Point 4, The middle class is what made America Great, fun, appreciable, majestic, and made it the magnet of immigration. That has even given way to travesty in that we cannot establish a humane method to facilitate deportation of undocumented workers, and illegal immigrants who impact our society, contribute, and profit upon the societies expense, yet lack the knowledge, interest, or eligibility to gain full citizenship. Our middle class was built upon the jobs produced by it's vast industries and there increasing profits from expansion into new markets. Manufacturing is up, and it has been my continued rant since I have seen so much volume of manufacturing jobs go to overseas job markets which have lower standards there by producing lower quality goods, at lower labor costs to the corporations, yet they still receive tax benefits in order to subsidize foreign labor markets. There is a value for that quality, and devaluing your reputation has a high impact on your future valuation, in the minds of investors, hell even yourself. I grew up in a terrible part of town but, I had some great moves to places which had a wonderfully thriving middle class. Do you remember what that looked like? Barbques, Families, Vacations, and the word genuine. And if I could throw another political curve ball in the pot, I will throw in unions. It was great to be in a good union, and the men that had union jobs were the fuel of the economy. They owned homes, they had purchasing power, and there children got great educations. Those middle class ideals which we're simple, they weren't the typical american dream. Many rural naturalists thrived in this time, and value grew. The concerns of the world we're taken from an internal view. As they should be. It is more efficient to grow your economy than to contribute 1/3 of it to military expenditures. That says a terrible tragedy about you when 30% of your time and money goes to war. No wonder education, infrastructure, and research can't be improved. Checking out the GDP breakdown and some of the data on cost of government is very enlightening.
Our foreign policy has been a hybrid imperial strategy. It has been to keep a friend on the ground, which interests he represents are of no issue, only that profit be made and mouths be shut. Unrest is going on in the world in places in which we financially contribute the majority of the particular countries foreign aid. Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Lybia. All places, our money has supported. England, and Japan this past week have adjusted there economic contributions to China, as well as those contributions against the host countries INTERESTS. What are we saying to ourselves, about the way we choose and allow our leaders to represent us to our friends abroad, and what can be done? Review and reject foreign aid treaties which continue to aid interests contrary to those of our foreign policy, which obviously needs to be reviewed and prioritized to relevancy. Union's - are a big part of our lack of middle class representation. I recently viewed the middle class line in relation to the union membership entries, and they are interdependent. But this is my support of private unions, which support the interest of private citizens in contract with corporate managers for employment. Public Unions I believe anti-democratic as they work against the interest of the citizens in which they provide services for. I have stated past examples of this on facebook, associated with the DMV's walkout strike by union workers in California. Wait didn't you get your salary from locally collected taxes? Paid for services pending, not rendered.
And Finally and as quickly as I can wrap this up my last point is non-democratic institutions in a democratic society. That's pretty simple. Justices, not by appointment, but by vote. The electoral college, why? The US Military. We don't vote for the guy that takes us into battle, or the Secretary of there respective branches, surely they could use a competitive debate that the public could preview in order to evaluate character and principles. Judges especially right? These are the ultimate decisions makers, and outcome makers for our ethical core in society. They are currently in debate weather marriage is between a man and a woman vs a man and a man, yet we don't get to evaluate them by choosing a candidate, they are appointed. Corporations, are something less democratic. These institutions reward themselves with profit at the contracted rate to the tax payer they choose. Many of them are too big to fail, meaning you pay for broken goods you don't own. Some of these guys are as criminal as oh say ENRON CEO, producing invisible goods and selling them at a phenomenal profit. Corporations are pumping revenue into this country and they are the fuel that drives output, but they are as traditionally flawed in there organizational structure as a house on quick sand.
The moral of the story is we need to look locally, inward, at ourself, at ourselves, and we need to search for answers, and to not be afraid of what comes up, solutions and change, are going to happen, and will continue to come, but allowing things to continue to remain broken is no solution at all.
So tonight I had written a paper on Brasil. I was using the source of http://economia.estadao.com.br/noticias/economia,venda-de-carros-segue-em-ritmo-acelerado,not_60646,0.htm , to show a major indicator that the middle class in Brasil is growing, and it is just a good sign to follow. Some of the key points on Brasil are
