Smiling Slaves

Politics was something that I always watched in amusement, often times even baffled by the constant buffoonery that candidates expressed on over stressed policies that would never materialize or go into fruition.  The most important part to these debates to me are the faces in the audience.  Some would say that the ethnicity in the audience tells you the “false” demography of America.  I would concur with that thesis, but I would also state that the emotional response from the crowd also tells a lot about how misguided we as a people not only as a Americans have come, but maybe, we as individuals have gotten.  The individual response was mind numbing.  To have so much hope in a government system that continues to allow the systematic disfranchisement of “certain” people to even be allowed just numbs me mentally.  Not only that but even if we stretch deeper, even grasping information in past occurrences like the controversial compromise of 1877, or even to the elections when Bush clearly lost the race to the white house but then was still allowed to become a president.  It still leaves one to wonder how any of these parties honestly believe that politics still works in America, if the people, in my opinion, don’t have a consistent say in important matters.  Democracy is the free and equal right of every person to participate in a system of government, often practiced by electing representatives of the “people” by the majority of the “people”.  But I guess “majority” to some mean the 1%, or maybe even to others just majority which is White America.  S o if we understand that definition to what a Democracy is and forever shall be, then why are there gaps in history were presidential elections seem to be won, not by the majority vote, but by electoral votes.  Maybe I’m not understanding government completely, so I’ll press on to something that I have more information on.  What about the Compromise of 1877.  In my interpretation of this “compromise” neither party ended up being beneficial to African Americans, striping us of our civil rights, leaving African Americans to fend for their selves, with a large majority of them ended up being murdered or put back onto plantation because they had no were else to go.  Fast forward to modern times, we still have Affirmative Action that forces companies and business to give African Americans the same opportunities that Caucasians would get.  This realization by itself should tell you that America has no agenda of ever balancing the playing field.  If the government refuses to make the playing field level and refuses to allow the masses of  everyday America to decide key decisions that involve our nation then why embrace America for a democracy anymore.  America the dystopia called Capitalism, Land of the slaves home of the wealthy.