The basic problem
The basic problem between the federal government and the archetypal American citizen is financial allocation. We have to pay taxes, that is the cost of living in this form of society. This country is set up like a corporation, with the POTUS as the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) and his cabinet is the board of directors. Basically, America’s financial entity is without borders. The overarching conglomerate, encompassing the entire world, is one that I dub “Corporatia.” Many commentators have commented on how business interests of elected government officials take precedence over capital that could be used to fund education and other social programs that are woefully underfunded. Not giving students a free ride, but sending them to schools that have the funding to surround the highly impressionable youth with a positive and intelligent structure from Kindergarten to 12th grade. These men and women who are elected into state senates and any national office in nearly every case are those who have existing power and influence. Campaigning costs millions of dollars even on a state level. To be seen is to be known. Policy takes second place to potshots at competitors. Howard Dean, the front-runner to be elected prime Democratic candidate for the 2004 presidential election, seems less like a Ralph Nader- type dream president for liberals and stoners and the like, because 1: Any person who supported Nader to attempt to legitimize third-party candidates like the Green Party or Libertarians will
most likely NOT vote for the “legalize-it” party because 2: They most likely REALLY REALLY don’t want Dubya for four more years. But this begs the question, just who exactly are we getting when Howard Dean becomes POTUS besides -not-George W. Bush? Will he be the “cool substitute teacher” that Bill Clinton was, between the Bushes? Projected partisan (and non-partisan) policies are one thing, but results are another. Will he actually, generously, fund education? Will he end or attend to the open-endedness of the War Against Terror. Even though I agree that Howard Dean is an excellent stopgap to lessen Corporatia’s stranglehold on the gentles of honest, Joe and Josephine Average, but, is he anything more than that?