As you might have
have already heard, Hilary Clinton recently beat Bernie Sanders in the
Iowa Democratic Caucus by an extremely thin margin, 49.8 percent to 49.6
percent, with all precincts reporting, according to the state
department. Despite the claim that all precincts reported, however, the
Sanders campaign is thinking about requesting a recount.
This scrutiny is the result of Sanders’
team having been directly told that the Iowa Democratic Caucus was
determined, even though results from 90 other precincts were still
missing.
.4 percent is practically nothing, and, according to RT
news, Sanders “spoke of an unfolding controversy at certain Iowa
precincts which did not have enough Democratic party volunteers to
report delegate totals” to other media outlets.
He went on to state that “I
honestly don’t know what happened. I know there are some precincts that
have still not reported. I can only hope and expect that the count will
be honest. Did we win the popular vote? I don’t know, but as much
information as possible should be made available.” (source)
The results were so close that there are
also six moments where a coin was tossed to determine the winner in
Iowa, and Clinton won every single one of them.
Are Presidents Selected & Not Elected? Does Voting Even Change Anything?
A couple of weeks ago, Bernie Sanders stated this:
Let me tell
you something that no other candidate for president will tell you, and
that is, no matter who is elected to be president, that person will not
be able to address the enormous problems facing the working families of
our country. They will not be able to succeed because the power of
corporate America, the power of Wall Street, the power of campaign
donors is so great that no president alone can stand up to them. That is
the truth. People may be uncomfortable about hearing it, but that is
the reality. (source)
It was refreshing to see a popular
presidential candidate talk about something which, in all likelihood, no
other presidential candidate would dare speak of.
He might be the first presidential
candidate to make such remarks, but it’s not the first time we’ve heard a
politician speak out about these facts. The very first British MP,
Benjamin Disraeli, once said that “the world is governed by very
different personages to what is imagined by those who are not behind the
scenes.”
The 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, once stated that “behind
the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing
no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” (source)
Senator Daniel K. Inouye, the highest
ranking Asian-American politician in United States history, told us that
“there exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own
Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own
ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and
free from the law itself.” (source)
It’s quite clear that presidents and
politicians don’t really call the shots anymore. Major legislature
is ultimately influenced by the power these big corporations hold over
the government, and the recent Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is just one example of that reality in action.
A popular meme floating around the
internet states that democrats and republicans are just two wings of the
same bird, and the flight path doesn’t change. Ultimately, if we
follow the money, it becomes abundantly clear that we now live in what
most people would call a corporatocracy. The major corporations of the
world, and the small group of people that runs them, have enormous
lobbying power and access to the world’s resources. They get their money
from the big banks, who get their money from the central banks, who in
turn get their money from international central banks and the
International Monetary Fund (IMF). Money directly translates to
political power in our world, and nobody has more money than the banks.
If we want change, we cannot continue to
put it in the hands of other people. This type of thinking is
reminiscent of climate talks that began decades ago; since those talks
began, very little has been accomplished. In placing all our hopes on
world leaders and by believing they are the only ones who can effect
change, we hold ourselves hostage to stagnation. Sanders himself alludes
to this problem in the quote above. We ourselves need to take action.
Now.
The stranglehold these powers have over
politics and the enormous influence they wield calls into question the
validity of the entire system. Are elections rigged? Are presidents
selected, rather than elected? I don’t have all the answers, but it
certainly seems as if the system is rigged. If you take look at all the
presidents in the past and their advisors, and do a little independent
research, it begins to seem likely, at least in my own opinion, that
the Federal Reserve may have picked Hilary to be the president a long
time ago.
Personally, I would be very surprised if
Hilary were not ‘selected’ or ‘elected’ — whichever you prefer to
believe. Ultimately, I still believe voting makes no difference, and
that this entire campaign is one big distraction from what’s really
important. That being said, the issues Bernie brings up are important,
and it’s encouraging to see that a large portion of Americans resonate
with his message.
Hopefully this article gives you
something to think about, particularly if this type of information is
something you have yet to come across.
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