Throw the dog a bone

There is a difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. When the Republicans create a policy, it entirely favors the rich and business. When the Democrats create a policy, it also favors the rich and business. But, the Democrats will also throw a bone off to the whichever economic class they want to troll for votes. It used to be the working class, but for the last 30 years or so that has switched to the middle class.

For the rich and for businesses, this means there really is a difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. With the Democrats they win, but they win bigger with the Republicans. The Republicans will give them the whole meal, while the Democrats toss a bone off to the middle class. Thus, whenever possible the rich and the business community will prefer to have Republicans. They want that last bone.

At first glance, it would seem that the reverse is true for the middle class. After all, the middle class gets nothing under Republican rule, but does get a bone or two from the Democrats. By this logic, the middle class should vote Democrat.

But that supposes that the fact that the rich and businesses will get the lion's share of the benefits no matter what is an unchangeable rule of the world. Here's where we reach the true irony of how the rich and the business community scream the words 'anti-American' at anyone who opposes them. Because the very basic founding concept of America is that 'all people are created equal, and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights'. Because America is supposed to be the country with a government 'of the people, by the people and for the people.'

In a government of the people, by the people and for the people, decisions should be made for the benefit of all the people. Not just for the benefit of an elite group at the top, but for all the people. In a true democracy, the elite few at the top should have relatively less power because of the simple fact that they should get out voted whenever anything that is proposed that would benefit only them. Those that get caled 'anti-American' are usually being criticized for promoting what America really stood for in the first place.

Now lets look at that bone again. Is it really worth it? Because what America has given up to get that measly little bone was control over the whole meal. What America has lost is a democracy which governs to the benefit of all people. Instead, trade policy is set to benefit a few at a cost to everyone else. Wars are fought to benefit a few at a cost to everyone else.

In today's political system, we now have two parties representing the rich and the business community. What we need is to build a political movement that will represent everyone else. When we do that, the real choice will be clear. And the days when Americans only settled for a measly bone will seem unbelievable in retrospect.