subject: American Democracy Past To Present [print this page] There is a reason Democrats and Republicans dont get along, but its no longer a matter of difference of political ideas and ideals. Both those determinants took a bullet to the brain on Nov. 22, 1963, as did the sort of gravitas that came with them.
What we have now is partisan squabble about money. Who will best govern the purse strings of the nation, who is fittest to serve the corporations best interests, who is most likely to garner the sort of fuzzy popular support of Americans so that corporations can gain, maintain or increase their holdings without too close scrutiny.
Democracy was a grand experiment launched from lofty ideals, meant to serve both decency and fairness, as long as you were male, rich, and white.
To many whose framework about democracy has focused on idealism, democracy has failed. To those with real money, democracy is the justification for their continued skipping along the yellow brick road.
Democracy was somehow confabulated during the years of LBJ to actually mean that all men were, in fact, created equal, when that is not now and never has been true, as much as we would all benefit from just such equality.
Democracy is democratic in that it simply allows that whatever will happen, happens. And for Americans in the 21st Century, it means that money no longer has to hide behind the ideals of LBJ or anyone else any longer. Now that all pretenses about human rights have been stripped from the Bill of Rights, and all the noble prattle has been eviscerated from the Constitution, money and capitalism have emerged freely to take preeminence in the democratic process. Money holds democracy fast by the throat. Kennedy and LBJ were just two odd men out. And idealism didnt work out well for Carter, either.
Now that the Corporatocracy is out in plain sight, it is very clear what democracy means in America. Barring some very unusual set of circumstances, the candidate with the most support of lobbyists and corporate interests will win. And if the money race is close, then the success of idealistic backstabbing determines the victor.
There really is no longer a meaningful difference between Republicans and Democrats. As the Democrats shift to the right, and the Republicans shift even further to the right, it is clear that the real winners in American politics are AIPAC, Mobil, Shell, BP, Merck, and the conglomerate of private health insurance companies. Money does, in fact, make the world go around.
And President Obama is good with this. So is Mitch McConnell, and Nancy Pelosi, and John Boehner et al. The only real fight being conducted in the name of democracy these days is about who controls the purse strings.
Either democracy has failed, or this is what the founding fathers truly had in mind all along.
by: eddembrowns
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