My Vote No Longer Counts in the Current Political Environment

Yes, my vote here in the United States does count but more and more, my vote remains silent because the elitists of this country pay for my vote and the votes of others with their influence, power and money. 

The United States, unlike many other industrialized nations and especially third world countries, is still a democratic country and to some extent, the most freedom-oriented nation on the face of the earth but those freedoms and rights are constantly being eroded by a system that caters to the ultra-rich and the most-influential people of this country.

America in the last five or six decades has changed dramatically and the change has not been for the better because more and more, politicians and legislators no longer do the work of the people nor do they serve the people as they were supposed to do when the people put them in office to serve the needs of their community.

More often than not, these public officials serve their own interests and in the process line their pockets with taxpayers’ money, often times leaving the people that elected them out of the fold of the political discussion and without the necessary improvements for their communities.

Yes, in just about a week, I will go to the polls and vote what I believe will be the best choice for the president of the United States and the other candidates–federal, state and local–and hope that this time, the new elected public servants will carry out the work of the people that they were elected to do. But, as in the past, after the elections become history I am sure, all the promises will be forgotten because this is the color of the beast that we have created in this country with the two-party system that today after more than 200 years of history resemble two sides of the same coin.

Today, after living in this country for more than 50 years, I am proud to be an American because the United States is still the best and last hope for mankind on Earth but this hope is steadily and slowly disappearing because the people no longer rule in this country; it is the special interest groups, the elite, and the large corporations that make the rules for all of us.

Yes, America is still free when we compare it with other nations but our freedoms more and more are limited at best because the people under the current system have lost their voice.