Dominance and Exclusion…

This phenomenon in our cultural psyche; one that pits a minority collective or power tripping individual against a subservient majority for the sole purpose of control, whether for market dominance, religious doctrine, or athletic dynasty, basically defines our current political process. How does this happen? Legislation of profits by eliminating competition via the misuse of copyrights, lax anti-trust laws, and the dispersing of tax breaks. Miniscule percentages of penalty versus worth for punishment of breaches of anti-trust law and environmental protection are evidence that the priorities in place are part of a cultural mindset.

This mindset results in a system that promotes the premise that the possible opportunity to reach and maintain status in the top 2% economic level has greater social worth than the more likely probability of not getting there, including the elements of failure: the subjugation of the working class, the desolation of families, and justice inequities of the bottom 98%. At least we have hero worship.

I once heard a tale of an American walking by a mansion and proclaiming, “One day I’ll own one of those.” Meanwhile an Irishman across the Atlantic is walking by a mansion proclaiming, “One day I’ll get that bastard.”

So we have a survival of the fittest economy with a built-in defense system that holds the livelihoods of millions hostage so corporate officers can have infinite benefit of the process.

This is false freedom. This standard is why in many people’s eyes, mine included, that there is really no difference between the republican and democratic presidential candidates. I didn’t see a difference between Clinton and Dole, Gore and Bush, and I see little difference between Bush and Kerry. We don’t dare vote for someone else but Kerry, because Bush will win. This is a pathetic way to showcase the greatest democratic system of all time.

I will vote for Kerry, not because he earned my trust, but because I see the current administration as an evil entity within an evil system. Sorry Ralph. I can only handle one evil at a time.