Politics and Poverty in America and why the poor even bother to bother.
How the political establishment is able to lure gullible voters back into the fold election cycle after election cycle is a mystery to be demystified. Somehow, no matter how little the political process is able to improve the lives of the people, it finds away to live another day.
Considering how little is being done and the promise of even less in the future, how people allow themselves to be sucked in time after time, only to find themselves suckered all over again is nothing shy of amazing. As fall makes way for a chilly winter, poorer north easterners will face challenges to remain sheltered, warm and fed. How the election or reelection of political representatives this go round will assist the most vulnerable in an atmosphere of gridlocked partisan gamesmanship is a question realists no longer ponder.
In the wake of the latest round of local and state elections, the idea of the poor and sinking middle class realizing a difference for the better, is as remote as it ever was. Save for New York city's mayoral race where Democrat Bill De Blasio defeated Republican Joe Lhota, most of the other contest were mere strategic positioning by the political establishment.
Still, while we wish Mr. De Blasio all the best, the wise will be mindful to remember that he's following mayors Mike Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani. These racially divisive and protectors of the prosperous, one could argue, treated the poor like animals and policed them accordingly. It won't take much to bring a modicum of relief, a hint of dignity and a bit of hope for opportunity to those who've been marginalized and dehumanized so horribly. For those fortunate enough to cling to the middle class, they'll will have to be satisfied with just being ignored. At least they're not being stopped and frisked.
From New Jersey's Chris "Roly Poly" Cristie being prematurely inflated for 2016, to Hilary Clinton being pre-coroneted daily by the liberal media, the perpetual political process presses on. With no viable answers, solutions, proposals or plans, the political process presses on. Always long on promises and short on progress, the political process presses on. Driven by money and power that rarely ever trickles downward, the political process continues without interruption.
Like a bad reality show that can't be canceled, it now runs on all channels all day and all night. The campaining never stops. The fund raising never stops. The finger-pointing never stops. And to no one's surprise, the lies never stops. Because the bottom lines here is, the political process just keeps pressing on.
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