Yeah so it's been a while. But Wednesday's debate at the reaction to it got me going again..
So I watched the "debate" and read the transcript of the "debate" and read all my friends reactions to the "debate", and that classic Styx song kept on running through my head:
"Welcome to the Grand Illusion
Come on in and see what's happening
Pay the price, get your tickets for the show..."
You know the song. Well that's pretty much what you saw Wednesday night. Two candidates representing two supposedly different parties basically holding a joint press conference disguised as a real political debate.
What we have in this country is basically two slightly different versions of the same ideology where differences are exagerrated in order to present the illusion that we have political choices in this country.
And deep inside they are the same. Romney and Obama. Republicans and Democrats. They want to borrow and spend, maybe on different things, but that doesn't really matter. One wants a little higher tax rate than the other. One wants to pour money into the military, the other into health and social programs.
"Someday soon we'll stop to ponder what on Earth's this spell we're under..."
But the list of "differences" between Romney and Obama pales in comparison to the list of similarities between the two. Everything from military intervention in foreign affairs to continuing the wasteful "War on Drugs", deficit spending, foreign "aid" to nations that harbor our enemies, immigration laws and the list goes on and on.
You're being duped into believing that you actually have a choice in this election.
I leave you with the words of Judge Napolitano...
What if the whole purpose of the Democratic and Republican parties was not to expand voters choices, but to limit them?
What if the widely perceived differences between the two parties was just an illusion?
What if the heart of the government policy remains the same, no matter who's in the White House?
What if the biggest difference between most candidates was not substance but style?
What if those stylistic differences were packaged as substantive ones to reinforce the illusion of a difference between Democrats and Republicans?
"Just remember that it's a Grand Illusion
And deep inside (they're) all the same..."
