The Illusion Of Choice In The Presidential Election

Before you run out to cast your vote for the next president of The United States just keep in mind that the only choices that you get in terms of candidates are the choices that the corporate powers that be will allow you to have based on what it is they want. Have you ever noticed how every time any candidate comes up that threatens to make any real kinds of changes to the way things operate in Washington they always just disappear into the fog and we are always left with people who have been part of the system for decades and have been running things in Washington forever and have no real vested interest in changing anything but rather in the maintenance of the status quo. John McCain has been a senator for decades, Hillary Clinton has been around for decades, Barak Obama is new which is the biggest reason for his appeal with potential voters. He has no political history to tarnish his name yet. He is playing that to the hilt though. The notion that he is a new breath of fresh air and that he will go in there and change the way things go on in Washington. The truth is he wont because he cant. In order to run for president you need the sanction of the corporate elites who really run this country and in order for them to provide you with the money you need to run your campaign they have to be assured by you in private that at the end of the day you are not going to do anything that will seriously upset the way they go about doing things. After a candidate runs for office and succeeds he is so in debt to the people that payed for him to get there that he basicaaly is in a position where he cant say no to them about anything that they might want to do and thats how the systems ends up working against people like you and me. This country is a democracy in name only at this point. It is a democracy on paper and in reality rich people run it and they are not going to let go of power as long as they live i would guess. Even if barak Obama wins and becomes president you should not expect anything to change really because the people that really run things dont want anything to change. Big Oil, Big agriculture, big pharmaceuticals, big insurance, big real estate are the indiustries that really run things and at the end of the day they are only interested in having candidates that bend to their will about what they want done and the laws they want created to benefit them. They would never be interested in anyone like Ralph Nader, or Ron Paul or any kind of candidate who if he ever actually became president and had any real power would be going after them first. They always want a lap dog who will do their bidding and keep things going in the direction that they have been in this country. A direction that has been benefitting them first and the most. Barak Obama's posture as a candidate of change is just a pose to get you to give him his vote. If he wins he wont make any real changes he will be busy paying back the big wigs who got him there in the first place and those people are not everyday Americans.