The following paragraphs come from the web site www.matthewbooks.com, and are a very powerful commentary about our electoral system:
(This) country may appear to be the haven for democracy, but that is a farce of the highest order. You may believe that legal and honest processes are observed in "democratic" elections, but it has been many, many decades since the last of those. There haven't been any honest elections anywhere else on Earth, either, but it's just not as obvious that there haven't been any in the United States, where the citizens have been duped for such a long time into believing their voices and votes count.
The men and women in the federal government are not ruling (this) country "with freedom and justice for all." Those are hollow words, just as the two-party system is meaningless insofar as giving voters a choice - the dark forces have influence that knows no party boundaries. Government officials who have acted in accordance with their sense of honesty and right-ness have been disposed of by one means or another. Those who are not killed are threatened with it or they are ridiculed into non-credibility or are forced into oblivion insofar as any influence. That is what has been passing as the "democratic system of government" in America.
Only with an honest voting process can the people's choices be given their true value, and you citizens of USA don't have that. Your votes are denied, ignored or manipulated to serve the interests of the "power elite," one term used to denote the few most powerful people on Earth who are controlling everything to serve themselves. If you want to have an honest election for a change, work toward that end. Investigate the voter eligibility rolls and balloting mechanisms, the people who handle the ballots, the corporation that counts them and releases the totals to the networks for announcing. I tell you, there is deception and corruption up and down the line, and curing that ill has to precede the next presidential election.
I wish I could say the author of that was exaggerating; but I can't. He isn't. The facts are hard to face, especially when so many powerful interests have invested so many years, so many dollars, and so many lives to convince us otherwise. But unless we wake up to the truth, the problem cannot be fixed.
This is why I'm running for the US Senate. This is why the old politics of money, power, and corruption must be eliminated from this nation. The Green Party offers an alternative to the Republocrats and their old politics, with a new politics of the people, the environment, and the earth.