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From there, continues the myth, the next step is to remind the elected official that he or she is a Democrat and really didn’t mean what she or he said during the campaign.  To take it a step further, it will then be a cinch to convince the elected official, say, for instance, Kerry, Clinton or Obama, that he or she really didn’t want to support NAFTA or other “free trade” agreements, that she or he really didn’t want to continue to vote to give The Regime money to help solidify its colonization of Iraq, that he or she really believes what’s said by our National Intelligence Estimate and shouldn’t look at Iran as an enemy, that she or he has no reason to consider Venezuela and its leader, Hugo Chávez an enemy of the United States.  A cinch, no doubt.

 

A Democrat was elected in 1964 and the next step was his virtual resignation in 1968.

 

A Democrat was elected in 1976 and he boycotted an Olympics, failed to rescue Americans held hostage by Iran and promised that all administrations from his own until the year 2000 would carry through his vision that every American home would be using solar energy by 2000.

 

A Democrat was elected in 1992 and he became a Republican.

 

What’s the solution?

 

I continue to narcissistically promote my article “Priority Number One”, (I guess I just can’t help it). 

 

However, before we begin directly voting for those for whom we vote, maybe we should insist upon a discussion clarifying the real purpose of the fourteenth amendment to The Constitution and remove corporate influence from our electoral process.

 

OK, so we’re up against the wall.  Contacting Congress is useless and doing an intervention for a Democrat once one is elected is to change the nature of our relationship with wealth and probably won’t happen.

 

I don’t know.

 

I guess I’ll leave you with a few narcissistic suggestions.

 

If we think contacting our members of Congress will do any good, well, it ain’t gonna happen.

 

Maybe it’s time to work outside the system.

 

Maybe it’s just time to ask if there’s still time.

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