No One Else Will Tell You the Truth, So I Will
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart America has more problems in the 21 st century than in all of its 247-year history. However, if I must break it down to one issue, and I must, it is the very existence of political parties. For professional politicians only one thing matters, not the people or future of our country, winning elections and amassing power is their only goal and their only focus. I could not vote until I was 21 years old, in 1967. Therefore, the first election in which I cast my ballot was in 1968. I decided long before that I would never be a member of either party, I would be an Independent, and I remain so today. However, I have a problem, and that problem is our nation’s biggest problem: the entire right side of the aisle no longer represents the majority of our nation’s people. They support the current plutocracy. One fact is frightening: a plutocracy cannot survive permanently without a fascist government. Our democracy is in danger. If you are a member of the voting