Word for the day

Everyday on my way to work I get to listen to just a small bit of talk radio. Then when I come home I watch just a little bit of the news. (really I can only handle the news in small amounts) Usually the news spends all its time on depressing stories of human kinds degeneration. A murder here, a rape here, here a thief, there a thief, everywhere a thief thief. You get the picture. Well today, and really for the past year, I can think of only one word when it comes to our wonderful country and the place that we find ourselves in at the moment. Here we have a great opportunity to elect a new president. An office which has in it a certain amount of power and prestige and honor. Well, now I can only think of one word to describe my feelings about the great political process that we are now in.

Disenfranchisement

In our nations history is a valuable lesson on civil rights. One of the basic and fundamental rights that were fought for, was simply the right to vote. Black people in America were not allowed to vote. Protests were held, marches were held, voter registrations, from door to door, people were hurt, people were killed. All in the name of civil rights, and the chance at participating in the election process, and feeling truly a part of this great county. Of the people, for the people, by the people. That is what makes this country great. Or at least should. Now we find ourselves in a sad state of affairs. I for one feel left out of the process. Almost as if there is nothing I can do, my voice is not heard, I have no part. We have congress and the senate, plotting to steal our money by way of taxes. We have an election that is put in the hands of groups, media, special interests. In none of what I see today do I see the basic principals of a government that was created to serve the people. Now all I see is a government put in place to provide for the suspension of basic rights, the reallocation of the peoples money without their consent or wish, and a plan to keep people enslaved under the guise of entitlement and learned helplessness. Where is my voice. Let him who has eyes, see, let him who has ears, hear. Disenfranchisement is being separated from the process that makes us free. We the people are losing our freedom quickly. We have put our trust in the hand of man, and man has failed us. Where is my voice? I have only a whisper.