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The Midterm Election
Further Demonstrates The Need for Revolution

by David
DeGraw

Global
Research, November 4, 2010

AmpedStatus -
2010-11-03

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The Obama
referendum came in and he got what he deserved.
When you run on change and leave the same
criminals in positions of power and don’t hold
anyone accountable for obvious crimes, and allow
them to continue to commit those crimes, you
deserve to lose your power. This is what happens
when you put Tim Geithner and Larry Summers in
charge of the economy, and support Ben Bernanke
for reconfirmation as Chairman of the Federal
Reserve. This is what happens when you keep Robert
Gates as your Secretary of Defense and General
Petraeus in charge of your wars. This is what
happens when you lie to protect the interests of
BP over the American people. This is what happens
when you bailout Wall Street and the health care
industry and sell out everyone else. This is what
happens when your rhetoric is the opposite of your
actions. The past two years have clearly exposed
Obama as a spineless corporate puppet and he
deserves to be voted out in 2012.

Now, don’t get
me wrong, most of the people who were just voted
into office are just as bad, if not worse, as hard
as that is to believe. This election marks the
third straight time that the American public
dramatically voted out the people who were in
power. The fact of the matter is that these people
are not voting for politicians that they like as
much as they are voting against politicians they
hate. Hopefully by 2012 the American public will
finally understand that they must support
Independent candidates and alternative political
structures, and cannot vote for Democrats or
Republicans, if they ever want to achieve the
needed change. Both parties serve the same
corporate masters. Yes, there are some differences
between the two. The Democrats serve half of the
top economic one percent, and the Republicans
serve the other half. We have Neo-liberals to the
left and Neo-cons to the right, leaving 99% of us
without representation.

And the
saddest part of all, the system is now so rigged
via campaign finance, lobbying and the revolving
door that it is almost impossible for people who
represent us to even get into office, let alone
stay in office and enact policies that will bring
change. Two politicians in Congress who actually
fought for us against the Economic Elite just lost
their reelection bids. Alan Grayson and Russ
Feingold lost because record amounts of cash went
to funding the candidates who ran against them.
Even their own party’s leadership didn’t support
their reelection efforts. The bottom line in this
money rigged system is that you cannot run against
the most powerful corporations and win. They will
just pour unlimited funds into defeating you, and
your own party will desert you.

The truth that
many so called “Independent” news outlets will not
tell you is that this government is now beyond
repair. You won’t hear many calls for Revolution
because even the more “Independent” news outlets
are dependent on the two-party system. It is
absurd that these outlets still play into the
obsolete Republican versus Democrat dynamic. The
only reason why they do it is because they are
dependent on grants from foundations and political
organizations that will not fund them unless they
bow to Democrats and bash Republicans, or vice
versa.

I can speak
from personal experience. I’ve lost a vital grant
to fund my work because I wasn’t willing to focus
my attention on blaming Republicans for our
problems. Our problems are a result of the
two-party system. When you engage in bashing one
party in favor of the other, you become a pivotal
cog in the machine that is killing our country. I
will not be part of the disease. The stakes are
too high now. America is burning and both parties
are pouring gasoline all over it.

Most Americans
have only a vague understanding of the collapse
that we have been set up for. If you think the
past two years were bad, they were just a warm up
to what is coming our way. After analyzing the
policies in place and the current political
environment, I can assure you that the next two
years will be worse that the previous two. 52
million Americans have already been driven into
poverty, 30 million are in need of work, millions
of American families have been foreclosed upon and
the inequality of wealth is the most severe it has
ever been in the history of the United States. And
this is just the beginning phase of the decline.
Millions more will be added to these totals and
the social safety-nets that have held our society
together are breaking down. Cuts to vital social
programs are going to be severe across the board.

Our paid-off
government is not going to fix our problems, they
are making them worse. Don’t you think it’s time
for you to start representing yourself? Don’t you
think it’s time for you to start defending your
family’s interests?

These are
questions that I’ve already asked myself and
deeply considered. I made my decision and have
dedicated myself to building a wide-ranging
network of alliances across the political spectrum
and have drafted a common ground platform that we
are building off of. I’ve analyzed power politics
very closely over the years. I know how the game
is played and I know who our enemies are. I’m
going to do everything I can to end the two-party
oligopoly.

I’m not saying
that you should follow me. I’m saying that it’s
time for YOU to lead. It’s time for YOU to get
involved. Build your own army. Once you start
paying attention and put in some time to do the
research, you will clearly see for yourself that
both parties are working against your interests.
You will also see how critical the situation is
and realize that you can no longer be passive and
expect to keep living a healthy and secure
lifestyle. We are going to be tested in ways we
have never been tested before. We cannot get away
with being apolitical anymore. It’s time for us to
pay attention, to become directly involved in the
decision-making processes that guide our life. I
know this is something that most people don’t
enjoy and don’t want to do, but the consequences
of our inaction will be much worse than anything
we have ever experienced.

Yes, I sound
extreme, but these are extreme times. I’m not
going to sit quietly as our future is ripped out
from under us. I will not let my family’s well
being and our country’s fate be decided by
short-sighted greed addicted forces that have
looted the global economy and brought poverty,
death and destruction throughout the world.

I see the path
we are on and I intend to change it!

It is evident
that the overwhelming majority of the population
has become cynical and feels that it is useless to
try to change things. If these people would just
realize that they are the overwhelming majority
and take action, we can change things. We have
power in numbers. We are 99% of the population. If
we organize on common ground and fight back, we
will win!

David DeGraw is the
founder and editor of www.AmpedStatus.com. He is the author of The Economic
Elite Vs. The People of the United States of
America, and his forthcoming book is The Road
Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.

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