American Voters Are Really Stupid
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No matter how many times politicians have lied to us throughout our lives, we continue to elect these scoundrels to our nation’s highest offices. Why do we do this? Are we doomed to self-destruct? Are we trying to commit national suicide? Are we following our leaders off a cliff like a herd of buffalo? Regardless of what party leaders may say, both of our major parties select candidates for state and national offices who will respond primarily to the concerns of the very rich and the most powerful people in our country.
Politicians always speak to the issues that bother the voters most. Whether it is: the nation’s economy, religion, abortion, the right to life at all costs, crime control, euthanasia, same sex marriage, gun control, taxes, No Child Left Behind, public education, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, government contracts, foreign policy, illegal aliens, terrorism, or war, political candidates on both sides of these issues can speak most fervently because they believe very strongly in the positions they have taken.
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About the Book
This book is an indictment against the wealthy, their lobbyists, and their politicians who have controlled the government of this country for more than two hundred years. Hiding behind their smiles, patriotic sentimentality, and religious declarations, politicians have been lying to us for generations. As secret representatives of business conglomerates, religious power groups, media empires, banking and insurance institutions, advertising agencies, and the fascist conspiracy that doesn’t exist, they have been writing laws all these years to relieve the tax burden on the wealthy and big business. They use tax dollars to pay off their election supporters with government contracts. They create wars to make the wealthy even wealthier while ordering naïve idealists in the military to kill and die on battlefields around the world.
Using the same slimy, soul winning devices of revivalists on the sawdust trail, politicians for reelection glad handed, hugged, kissed babies, and joked with the troops to win the voters’ confidence. Everything will be all right if we vote the party line, encourage our children to join the military, go to church, and stay the course. Elmer Gantry and recent presidents had a lot in common.
Many of those families who had become wealthy during the colonial period supported the Revolutionary War, so that they would control the government that followed. They felt the American people owed them a debt for their contributions to the war effort; therefore, they assumed power over this new democracy as if it were theirs. The elitist snobbery that existed in colonial days is with us still, and the laws that keep this oligarchy in power are tightening their stranglehold evermore securely. The stupid American voters cannot see what is going on because they are too busy entertaining themselves with their toys and addictions.
About the Author
A Nobody Et Al are quiet revolutionaries who have no credentials as authors, but are dedicated to the idea that all men are not created equal and never have been. They were born during the 1930’s depression and they all worked as lower middle class wage slaves to feed, clothe, house, and educate their families while providing them with minimal health and dental care, and no luxuries.
A Nobody was the last of six children born during those hard times. His father, luckier than millions, was able to keep his job for all his working life as a railroad clerk. His mother drove a school bus for most of her life. The children worked as newspaper delivery boys to pay for their school needs. This family of eight lived in a three-bedroom, one-bath wooden house built by the children’s grandfather in a neighborhood of southern, white, struggling, blue-collar, railroad workers. His father and two oldest brothers were addicted smokers and alcoholics as were many who lived in that environment.
Though grandfather had donated the property for the Pentecostal Holiness church less than a block from his house, Nobody’s father did not attend the church; however, his mother and the children attended but not regularly. Commitment to the church’s rigid tenants – no dancing, no smoking, no card playing, no drinking, no makeup, no movies on Sunday, tithing, public witnessing before the congregation, public confession of sins - was not agreeable to this “modern” family of the thirties. Father had chosen not to practice his father’s religion; mother paid lip service to the church to keep peace with her father-in-law. A Nobody was embarrassed by this intense, explosive, born-again Christian environment of hellfire damnation that rocked the neighborhood with its enthusiastic singing and raucous shouting.