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Not Invited To The Party

Mark L. Daniels
Global Political Awakening

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely" arose as part of a quotation by the expansively named and impressively hirsute John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902). The historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:


"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

During her recent visit to Arkansas, Christina Tobin, Founder and Chair of The Free and Equal Elections Foundation, gifted me with an autographed copy of James T. Bennett's thoughtful, "caustic", and "irreverent" book; Not Invited to the Party, which  exposes the truth in the old age adage, Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows.

Not Invited to the Party demonstrates how the dominant political parties--the Democrats and Republicans--have co-opted the system to their advantage. James Bennett examines the history and array of laws, regulations, subsidies and programs that benefit the two major parties and discourage even the possibility of a serious challenge to the Democrat-Republican duopoly. The American Founders, as it has been generally forgotten, distrusted political parties. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution are parties mentioned, much less given legal protection or privilege. This provocative book traces how by the end of the Civil War the Republicans and Democrats had guaranteed their dominance and subsequently influenced a range of policies developed to protect the duopoly. For example, Bennett examines how the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (as amended in 1974 and 1976), which was sold to the public as a nonpartisan act of good government reformism actually reinforced the dominance of the two parties. While focused primarily on the American experience, the book also considers the prevalence of two-party systems around the world (especially in emerging democracies) and the widespread contempt with which they are often viewed. Featuring incisive commentary on the 2008 election, and a foreword by third-party iconoclast, Ralph Nader, the book considers the potential of truly radical reform toward opening the field to vigorous, lively, contentious independent candidacies that might finally offer alienated voters a choice, not an echo.

"Electoral reform, which is farther along in Canada and the United Kingdom, will, I predict, eventually come to the United States.  It will be a multi-decade process that the two older parties will fight tooth and nail (be wary about all the arguments that will be heard about "American Exceptionalism"). ~ William Redpath, Chairman, Libertarian National Committee

"Electoral reform has arrived in the United States of America.  It's success depends upon each individual choosing to Unite across the political spectrum so that our posterity may enjoy Free and Equal Elections; United We Stand Free and Equal".  ~  Mark L. Daniels

"Freedom", wrote Marcus Cicero, "is participation in power."  That is what voters are supposed to be doing when they participate in elections.  Thank you so much, Christina Tobin, for your heroic efforts to make possible Free and Equal Elections for the States of America united!

I highly recommend this truly historic book and The Free and Equal Elections Foundation to anyone who cares about the future of humanity! http://amzn.to/WSHiYh

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Democrats Announce Plan to Bribe Seniors with $250 Check as Election Nears

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
October 19, 2010

In a cynical move to scrape up votes next month, Democrats mare making a pitch to give Social Security recipients a one-time payment of $250. Democrats insist the bribe is meant to make up for a second year without a cost-of-living increase due to low inflation prior to the Fed’s plan to crank up the printing presses and create inflation.

The scheme falls on the heels of Congress failing to renew COLA increases on Social Security payments.

Earlier this month, Congress failed to approve the Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA), which could total $25 billion for the nation’s more than 50 million Social Security recipients. Congress enacted COLA in 1975 to help Social Security residents keep pace with inflation.

The Federal Reserve is about to resume quantitative easing at the $100 billion-per-month range. Quantitative easing is Fed-speak for increasing the money supply and creating inflation.

Pelosi and Reid say they will introduce the legislation when Congress critters return for the lame-duck session in November. In the meantime, they are using the promise as a campaign pitch. “Instead of helping seniors,” said Pelosi’s office, “Republicans, backed by their allies on Wall Street, are threatening to privatize and cut Social Security, just as they tried to do under President Bush.”

Pelosi neglected to mention that during the 2008 election cycle, Wall Street’s donations were evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. In 2009, Democrat Dick Durbin told a Chicago radio station that banks own Congress and party affiliation is irrelevant. “And the banks — hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created — are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.”

“The only thing standing in the way of America’s seniors receiving this critical support are Senate Republicans,” said Reid. In fact, 12 Democrats joined 37 Republicans in blocking the $250 “bonus” earlier this year, mostly because they realize it will add more burden to the national debt.

Confronted with the Fed’s determination to crank up the money supply and price inflation, seniors have few options. A meager $250 check, offered by conniving Democrats who are about to be duly trounced out of Congress, will be little comfort. “What’s a senior to do? Either take more risks by investing in the stock market or cut back on consumption. Neither strikes me as a wonderful way to spend one’s not-so-golden golden years,” writes Peter Cohanfor Daily Finance.

Seniors would be far better off if they invested in gold and silver instead of throwing their money away in the rigged game that is the casino stock market.

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Kurt Nimmo edits Infowars.com. He is the author of Another Day in the Empire: Life In Neoconservative America.

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