I spent days reading many blog articles trying to understand the situation in Ukraine. I keep expecting the State Department to be the great diplomat, listening to and understanding all sides then developing the best solution to bring all sides together. But, it never happens anymore. I tweet about it, talk about it on Facebook and try to ask our leaders to do this, but they don’t. Perhaps I was always naive, believing that America was a country based on our ideals, that we were not bought and paid for like the rest, but finally, I am willing to admit my idealism is incorrect, and that’s fine. I think that we should change our two party system to feature prominently its rightful names on the ballot. Why not just call it the Haves and Have Nots? If you are a Have, you control foreign policy and are willing to risk everyone’s assets so you personally may gain. If you are a Have Not, your “interests” do not matter and the Haves can do anything they want with your money, freedoms and even in their hubris, if they are wrong, turn your assets over to the rival through debt that you are responsible for. The Haves have the benefit of the real two party system which is designed to divide and conquer. This in reality forms the cover-up for the Haves because we are too busy arguing with each other and attacking one another to notice we are being controlled by the Haves who enjoy taking both sides for sport. Any questions on that you can see that the elites have funded both sides of just about every conflict. Look it up.
Does President Obama realize how vulnerable we are on the world stage right now? China and Russia are benefiting from our failures in Iraq and Ukraine. Someone at the State Department needs to tell him that, but I am sure that they must be happy with America’s weakness based on its overreach, because no one is talking that way. That is why I titled this article an America’s Two Party System, we have become a Have or Have Not party country, no matter what your party is. “Interests” are interests. Some of the elites, Haves, do make mistakes. They too insure their demise if they are not part of the .001%, who probably make fun of them. The .999% do their dirty work for the perceived 1% crowd which is really the .001% crowd. For the .999% of the 1%, I would like to ask a question, “Do you think you are in with them, or will you be caught, a front person for them so that they may escape away? You know you have made ridiculous money. Are you willing to hurt those who could be and in fact are you?” Perhaps the answer is yes, that’s why Secretary of State John Kerry is not questioned. “Where is that multilateralism, Mr. Kerry? Why do you work for “them,” or do you? Will you stand up for us as President John F. Kennedy did or is your new inheritance your blindfold that keeps you away from helping US?” Our sniveling, sad, American foreign policy where we hope as citizens you are doing your job. Yes you have a job that you swore allegiance to our Constitution to protect us against Them too.
Our job is to maintain peace, balance and American interests for its people, not its corporations. This means not to create conflict for NATO’s benefit or oligarch’s profits or even to put the country in jeopardy for companies like Cargill, Chevron, etc. The companies win and we loose. We loose financially and ideologically by not following our own “democratic” principles overseas and are slowly becoming the laughing stock of “democracy” internationally. We are supposed to favor ballots not coups and take-overs. If our foreign policy does not become more like our national policy then what are we fighting for? Do you think that governments and people around the world do not see what $5 billion did in Ukraine? Perhaps it is like our national policy that favors the wealthy now in cases of campaign contributions and voter suppression laws. So perhaps, you are doing a good job enabling the two party system, the Haves and Have Nots.
My guess is that in the “End Game,” Americans will loose stability financially, diplomatically and the people of the world will no longer see a glimmer of the shinning light that America once was for freedom, civil rights and democracy as an ideal for all governments to follow. We are nearing that dark, blind spot in the world where our rivals will be in control, not based on their aggression but on our imperialism. Every war we have fought since 2001 has put them more in control of us, and they have gained many financial benefits. These include access to more resources including oil and natural gas, new partnerships because of conflict with us and a potential change away from the dollar as the reserve currency. In addition, we have emboldened terrorism in the Middle East through Syria and Iraq. Why is our foreign and national policy stacking the deck against the America people? All roads seem to lead to the .001% who would benefit from a controlled, surveilled society where no one has wealth but them and their henchmen. Perhaps this is doom and gloom, but with no care for diplomacy, our ideals, true democracy and contrasting positions, what else can there be? I’ll try to keep the light on for you but its becoming a dark, cold night.