The Revolution That Didn't Happen

We had a rare opportunity this year... Congress is the only branch of government that can regulate, tax, make laws and spend money. Which means that the national debt, war, financial collapse and most of the other ills of this nation are a direct result of the actions or inactions of our Congress. The fact that 87.8% of Congressional seats were up for election meant that the American people had a chance to do something besides complain. With Congressional approval ratings amongst the lowest they've ever been, one would think that there would have been a clean sweep with new blood brought in to fix things.

Most of the past 40 years have been spent spiraling this country into the land of corporate greed and financial mismanagement. Most of the past 40 years have been with the Democrats in control of Congress. Most of the past 100 years have been spent cycling between Republicans and Democrats in power. Republicans and Democrats alike are interested in two things: Feathering their nests and kow-towing to the lobbyists who finance their campaigns. Do you really believe that someone elected to Congress with a salary of about $169,000 a year got even more wealthy from that income?

So with the Purple Party (Republicans and Democrats, red and blue) having fun at our expense for all these years and the public crying for change, you'd THINK that the American public would replace those Purples with someone else for a change. Lots of independents and Libertarians ran for office. Who knows if they'd have been better than the two parties that got us into this mess? They certainly couldn't have done any worse.

So with the chance to replace our government, without a single shot being fired, what happened?

Nothing

The outraged American voters came out en masse and set voting records, to vote the same parties back into office and into power. Obama may have won the White House and the Dems may have won control of both the House and the Senate, but the American voters are the losers.

Just so you know, as if you care... I voted and I didn't vote for a single Democrat or Republican.

It'll be years before we get an opportunity of this scale again. Assuming that Americans get their collective heads out of their collective asses, I just hope that there is something left to save.

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