November 8, 2006- The Change

   Well, we finally had the fucking mid term elections yesterday, and  all of those negative, bullshit campaign ads are now off of the TV, to be replaced by equally as annoying Christmas ads, and some are saying that it was a historic day in American yesterday because of the changes that occurred. For the first time in over a decade, the Democrats are now in control of the House of Representatives, and they could not be happier. For hours now, they have been all over the TV, saying how this is the dawning of a new day and how things are going to change and so forth. they are loudly trumpeting the fact that Nancy Pelosi is now going to be the Speaker of the House, the first woman to hold that position, and that they are now the ones in charge and the Administration better watch out. They are saying that the people of America have spoken and that they are demanding changes in their government, and that they hear that call and will do whatever they have to in order to bring these changes on. These Democrats ran on various platforms saying things like how they were going to chart a new course for America in Iraq and how they will speed up stem cell research and reform government and everything else. To hear them tell it, America is about to change like it never has before, and change for the better. They seem to have convinced enough Americans of that fact to get them to vote them in so that they can take over the House, and now that they have gotten in with such record numbers, they are going to be looked on to produce exactly what they promised.  This election can be seen as a true cry for change by Americans, or ot can be seen as a way that the average citizen is punishing the Administration for  its deeds and misdeeds thus far, but whatever way you look at it, something is being said here because there is not usually such a great turnover in these elctions and there has not been a power shift in the House since 1994, when the Republicans  did very well in those midterm elections and assumed power. Now the pendulum has swung the other way again as it eventualy would. In a few weeks when the dust clears from this election, the Democrats are going to have some very large promises to fulfill, and the question of whether or not they are really up to the job is the one that shall be asked on the TV talk shows or the next little while now because there are more than a few skeptics that doubt the entire thing. Many feel that all this talk was little more than politics, that the Democrats knew that they could not deliver what they were promising, and that we shall all see that now that they are in. However, if you look closely at the entire thing, that is surely not the case, the Democrats know exactly what they can deliver. so the entirte thing comes down to a matter of semantics. The real question that should be asked today is not whether or not the Democrats can deliver what they promised, but just who they were really promising things to in the first place. The American people think that it is them, but the reality is another story altogether.


   Take the war in Iraq for example. The Democrats campaigned on the premise of bringing the troops home sooner rather than later and changing the course in Iraq. Since they were all part of bringing this war to us to begin with, they surely know that troop withdrawl is not only unfeasable, but negative in other ways as well, and they will not upset the applecart here. They know that things in Iraq have actually been going very well for America and that nearly every objective has been accomplished, despite how things look. They know that the stated objectives for Iraq were just a bunch of hot air, and that the real reasons for going there were altogether different,and all of those reasons have been wildly successful. The war has become the largest cash cow that anyone has ever seen, and a whole lot of people have gotten way rich off of it. The problem has been that the majority of those that have profited so are Republicans and their cronies and the Democrats  and theirs have been left out in the cold. The businessmen that support the Democrats have not been silent on this one and they want a piece of tha action too. The only way that they could get it was for the Democrats to regain control of the House so that they could bring in all of their pals. The problem is that this directly contradicts what the Democrats were telling the American people during  campaign season, because if they were to try and stop the war and bring the troops home, that would mean that their pals could not make their money. This means that anyone that voted Democratic yesterday because they truly believed that the war would end sooner wasted their time and energy because the Democrats have a trick up their sleeve. Sure, they'll be in control and have the Speaker's position, but what they'll do is make some cosmetic appearances as to what they promised and act like they are trying to end the war, but they won't really be trying at all. What will happen is that after a while, like around Summer 2007, they'll start saying shit about how they are stymied on this one because it was already underway when they came in, and that they cannot do anything about it right now. They'll cry big tears to the American people and go and blame everything on the Administration, saying that they started this shit and that it is very hard to stop and bashing Bush again. In the meantime, what will happen is that there will be a new crop of businesses getting the lucrative  government contracts and getting rich off of them, and these dudes will all be large Democratic contributors and supporters instead of Republicans.  This charade can be played all the way until January  20, 2009  when Bush leaves office. After that, they'll have to figure something else out, but yesterday' s results guaranteed that they'll be in tall clover until at least that day and maybe well beyond. If this Administration has been able to stall and bullshit the Americvan people so much over the last six years, the Democrats will be able to handle it for just over two, after all, they are all career politicians too, and career politicians know how to work shit like this.

   The same thing goes for every other issue that they talked about. The Democrats said that they are so concerned about personal privacy and the government's ability to spy, but thgere's no fucking way that they'll dismantle any of the spy apparatus tha thas been put in place these last six years because they like that shit. They'll increase it, using the same lame ass excuses that the current Administration has used, the interests of national security. They want to spy on and control the American people every bit as much as the Republicans  do and lie to the people when they say otherwise. It won't be any easier to get on airplanes or any of that, and it sure won't be a situation where the avergage American can relax about being spied on either, the government will be snooping in just as much, if not more, with the Democrats in power. They won't do that much about stem cell research either, because they don't think that it is too cool, they feel that it gives scientists too much power and the possible ability to creat humans in a lab, and they do not want anyone in America being more powerful than they are, and until they find a way to make sure that the scientists don't gain too much power and prestige  with this, they won't move ahead on it very much. However, if any of them get a disease that can be helped with it, they'll get the treatment while ordinary folks won't. The Democrats also said that they'll crack down on illegal immigration and  all that, when they have no intention of doing any of that shit. The businesses that support them rely on illegals that take sub  minimum wages to do their dirty work, and if illegal immigration is really stopped, that cheap labor force is gone and Mr. Businessman won't like that one iota. That is why so many Democrats supported raising the minimum wage this campaign season, to make illegals more popular than ever. the more that an American worker makes, the more that Mr. Businessman wants to hire illegals, so what the Democrats proposed on that actually will make the situation worse instead of better. Pretty much everything that was promised to the American people by the democrats goes down that same road, that the only changes that shall be made are cosmetic, mainly ones that changed the way that the money flowed and sent it to  different people. No corruption shall be erased, no war shall be stopped or changed, no strides in personal privacy or medicine wil be made,  no, everything is going to stay pretty much the same with the Democrats in control of the House despite all the campaign promises made these last few months. All that had to be done was to fool the American people, and that was done by bombarding them with those negative campaign ads for weeks at a time, just burning their heads out so much that they would listen to anything that was not negative shit like that was, and tailoring their speeches to that. It seems to have worked very well as they got what they wanted, which was House control, and now they can make their pals that have been waiting ever so patiently rich like hell just like the Republicans have.

   The Republicans are acting like they are upset over this, but they aren't, they know that  something like this gives the illusion that there really are two different political parties in America, and not just two facets of the same  one. In fact, it is good for them too, as having the control change like this looks good, and even though they have lost control of the House, the Republicans have not lost out one bit, it's  just that some of their pals will be left out in the cold in favor of Democratic ones, and they don't really give a fuck about that either because that is the risk that these businesses take when they align themselves with one party or another and they are all expendable in the end. Another business will rise and take the place of one that is out now and that's they way that it is supposed to be. Nobody really lost yesterday except the American people, as they always do. The politicians pretend to be enemies and foes, but they are really all in it together, the entire thing is a giant scam. The so-called change that we saw yesterday is really no change at all, just different people sitting in different chairs. The Democrats have been in charge of the House and all of Congress before, for many years in fact, and the policies that they adopted then are the ones that have ultimately brought us to where we are nowadays. Sure, many of them were different individuals, but the ones that are there today courtesy of yesterday's elections are no different than these Democrats of yesteryear, or of the Republicans of back then either. Nothing ever changes when this happens except for those that are connected, for the average citizen, it is the same old shit all the time. However, if the politicians are adept at making the average citizens feel that things are happening for them, they get ahead, if they cannot, they lose out. This year, it was the Republicans that had difficulty convincing the people of that, and the Democrats did very well at it, so they won. However, nobody really lost anything yesterday, none of the losers of the elections are going to go on welfare (the  dole) and sponge off of society, virtually all of them have all sorts of job offers in the private sector awaiting them  because they have the necessary connections to make a company one of the insiders that really  do profit off of these cosmetic changes that elections bring about. All that is going to come out of yesterday is a lot of political hot air and bullshit  and wrangling just like we always see. The Democrats are not a new party taking over, they are the same old fuckers that helped us get to right where we are today, not a part of a solution at all. However, they'll be on TV all week long telling us how different things are going to be from now on and continuing to shovel the bullshit. This election yesterday changed nothing in America, it just supported the status quo and will only keep thing running just as they have been running for years now. The only changes are a bunch of new faces that stand for the same old shit, because they are all insiders that run this country for themselves and their pals and no  one else. By the time that the American people wil lrealize this it wil be too late, and besides that, there will be a whole new crop of political faces lying to them again and promising change when they have zero intention of doing  so and the whole system will roll on and the insiders will get rich and the average people will get fucked.

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