Stardate April 5, 2017. Approx. 580 days until the next U.S. election, just over a year before the serious campaigning starts for the midterm elections of 2018. Currently Donald Trump is president, the republican party has the majority in the House and Senate and the serfs are as screwed as ever. More than ever.

So what's in store for us now? Another election? Is that what's next? We have to endure Trump and this unrepresentative government for another year and a half, then we get to have another election. All the talk is about how the republican party is going to do this and the democratic party is going to do that with nary a word about third parties or REVOLUTION. What ever happened to REVOLUTION? Shit man, we're so lame. We know what happened with the 2014 election:

"historically low turnout in last week’s midterm elections — the lowest in more than seven decades — was bad for Democrats, but it was even worse for democracy. In 43 states, less than half the eligible population bothered to vote, and no state broke 60 percent.

In the three largest states — California, Texas and New York — less than a third of the eligible population voted. New York’s turnout was a shameful 28.8 percent, the fourth-lowest in the country, despite three statewide races (including the governor) and 27 House races.

Turnout this month was the lowest in any federal election since 1942.
Over all, the national turnout was 36.3 percent; only the 1942 federal election had a lower participation rate at 33.9 percent. The reasons are apathy, anger and frustration at the relentlessly negative tone of the campaigns."

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/opinion/the-worst-voter-turnout-in-72...

Nobody's talking about that either.

"Apathy, anger and frustration". How about boycott, protest and refusal
to participate in a sham? How about people know this is not democracy so they have given up? Blaming it on apathy is a cop out, a way for the ruling class narrative disseminators to provide a reason that will be benign, not a threat, to their duopoly political system. "There's nothing wrong with the system, people are just apathetic. They just don't give a damn".

Apathy is the lack of interest, enthusiasm or concern. Even if a large number of people are apathetic, simply blaming it on apathy doesn't explain why people are apathic. Maybe most of those who are apathetic are so because they know it's not democracy to vote in this political system. Maybe they don't feel it makes any difference whether they vote or not, the rich, as always, make all the decisions. Maybe they believe there's no difference between the two major political parties so it's useless to pick sides. Maybe they're fucking right.

Why hasn't another Occupy occurred? Why did it only occur during 2011, coincidentally the same year the U.S. manufactured Arab Spring occurred? Did you know that the Arab Spring was manufactured? Do you know that Occupy wasn't? It's now going on six years and nothing approaching Occupy has occurred again even though conditions are certainly more FUBAR than they were in 2011, year after year, day after day. That's seems peculiar.

The 2014 elections were "even worse for democracy" according to the NY Times. What democracy? Democracy is defined as power to the people. The hippies knew that and made it their mantra. "Power to the People!!" When only 36% of the people vote for politicians from two corrupted, neoliberal and imperialist political parties that are controlled by the rich and powerful (because that's how you become powerful) who proceed to FUCK the serfs, terrorize the planet, and funnel all the wealth and power to themselves, that is not power to the people.

Now there's alot of talk about how each duopoly subsidiary is divided and primed for reformation or even reinvention. The democratic party is in the midst of soul searching while nothing for the Serfs is even considered in Congress. It's all about Russiagate, the war OF terror, fake news, budget reductions for domestic programs, anything BUT service to the Serfs, "representation".

Brand New Congress, Justice Democrats, Socialist Democrats of America, the list is getting long of those preparing to make an impact in the next election. The next election. The next election.

I remember years ago a famous professional athlete decided to "hold out" from playing until his contract demands were met. He ended up holding out the entire year, missing out on millions of dollars in salary. When asked why he did it, he said "I will not take less than I'm worth". At that level of negotiation, it's all relative. But for the Serfs, it's no longer relative, it's imperative that we refuse to take less than we're worth.

By the time the 2018 elections come around there's no reason to believe "apathy, anger and frustration" won't be at higher levels than in 2014. That could translate to an even lower level of participation in this demockery than the 36% in 2014.

Some might think the answer is to get more people to vote. I think it's time to take a good look at this political system and make some major changes. It ain't working and the people know it. This duopoly political system serves to perpetuate rule by the oligarchy. We can't keep going from election to election thinking things are going to change. We the People have been doing that for too long and where has it got us? Take a look at our representative government now.