Voting day is just around the corner, and of course everyone is talking about it.
My Facebook feed is swarming with political memes and ads. People are bashing and high-fiving each other over their presidential choices.
I honestly don't get it. Both Romney and Obama are running smear campaigns and everyone is eating it up. During the debates they just get up there and rip each other new ass holes and everyone is eating it up. What's the point? Is this what happens when a nation is brainwashed by mass media and reality trash shows? Is this the mother fucking Roman Colosseum?
I guess everything is going just as planned.
By whom, you ask?
Well the corporate and banking titans, of course.
Come on. It's obvious this whole thing is rigged. Obama and Romney are equally bought and paid for by corporations, in some cases by the same. exact. ones. The are two sides of the same old coin.
Everyone pretends third party candidates are non-existent. Not that it matters anyway, right? A politician is a politician - you can only trust one as far as you can throw it.
Have you ever noticed how all of these promises are always made but most of them never end up getting fulfilled? Yeah. That's because the person you elect is not pulling the strings.
This world is run by money, and money runs politics.
Your vote only counts when you have money to throw in with it, when you can afford your own lobbyist, when you can pay the president into office.
It's a nice thought that a presidential candidate is just receiving campaign money from a corporation and is otherwise untethered to said beneficiary. However, this thought is also naive. Once a candidate or any other politician is given money by a corporation they are forever bound to that corporation. They are afraid of losing the money. They waaant the money. Oh, Lord, please, don't let them stop giving me money!
Money is the vote.
So what do you do? Not vote?
That's an option, sure.
But what *I personally* am doing this election season, along with some other people from my community, is a write in campaign. We are all going to write in "No Confidence" on our ballots at the polls, because we have lost confidence in the system as it stands - corrupted by greed, corporations, and twisted politicians.
If you are interested, you can check out our FB page by clicking here. You can also follow us on twitter @noconfidence012.
