A few days ago the Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case to remove the limit on how much money corporations, unions, and individuals can spend to elect or defeat political candidates. However, this ruling did not deal with the limits on how much money could be contributed directly to candidates or political parties. The RNC is currently challenging those direct contribution limits as a free speech issue and is expected to take their case to the Supreme Court. These major changes in campaign finance laws will be the final nails in the coffin of our representative democracy as a money corrupted political system is allowed to become even more corrupted with even more money.

Our elected representatives have not represented middle class interest for a very long time, but now the mask is off for everyone to see the true ugly face of what our government has become. Our government leaders clearly represent the interest of a tiny minority of wealthy citizens who fund their expensive media campaigns, and it appears they have nothing but contempt for the rest of us.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness,”
Declaration of Independence

This lack of representation is no surprise to most Americans. In fact, a number of recent polls shows that well over 70% of the American people believe our government does not represent their interest. And over 35% believe we need a new party to represent us.

Obama promised us a new direction but it is now clear that he is taking us in the same direction Bush was taking us, the wrong direction. No change in policies and little change in personnel.

The fact that successful capitalist have turned our representative democracy into a fascist oligarchy is not only Obama's, Bush's, Clinton's, and Reagan's fault. These elected leaders were recruited and trained to play a role, like actors in a movie, designed to placate the majority while a tiny minority picks our pockets. Yes, they are big assholes for playing like we are all just a bunch of punk-ass bitches, but what are you going to do about it now?

Over the past thirty plus years the rich minority and their money whores in Washington D.C. and corporate America have been scamming us in the following ways:

• They have shifted the tax burden off the rich and onto the middle class while trying to sell us on the need for even more regressive tax changes, like a flat tax, as a way to make the system fairer.

• They have created a huge mountain of government debt our children and their children will be required to pay like indentured servants while pointing their fingers at each other blaming the other political party.

• They have bailed out the big Wall Street banks and auto manufactures for bad business practices with trillions of dollars of interest free money while ignoring the excessive executive bonuses that continue to be paid.

•  They have shifted the manufacturing sector out of this country while allowing poor immigrants into this country by the millions.

• They have allowed the oil and gas companies to become big monopolies that price gouge consumers at the same time they are raking in record profits.

• They have created huge federal intelligence, emergency response, and police bureaucracies funded annually with multi-billion dollar budgets while illegal drugs and illegal immigrants flow into this country unhindered, terrorist can pull off elaborate plots like 9/11, and natural disasters can kill thousands in New Orleans because of a lack of federal response.

• They have allowed toxic poisons into our food and water supplies (aspartame, MSG, fluoride, HFCS, genetically modified foods, etc.) while allowing health insurance companies to price gouge us for premiums and high deductibles, and then cancel our policies when we get sick.

• They keep popular third party candidates out of the debates, replace paper voting punch cards with paperless voting computers that cannot be audited, and then give us an Orwellian sticker after we vote that says: "My Vote Counted".

• They have started costly wars based on lies to protect us from terrorist who do not exist, until after we attack, and then pass laws that take away our rights using national security as the excuse.

• They have allowed the big media corporations to spread lies and push products that keep us dumbed down, sick, placated, and divided while they blame these same media corporations for being biased towards the other political party.

• They have allowed wealth to become concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer families while cutting government programs and progressive tax policies that had helped lower income and middle class family to move up the economic ladder.

And this list could go on and on but the point is clear, our interest are not being represented by anyone in Washington D.C., we are getting scammed from every direction, and our ability to react to, or act against, this new government is being taken away little by little.

In a way the rich minority is holding a gun to the majorities heads, including the heads of our elected leaders. Our elected leaders could fight back but they understand they risk being assassinated like John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, or killed in some mysterious plane crash like Paul Wellstone. Or we, the majority, could try to fight back but we would either be labeled a terrorist and put in jail, infiltrated, intimidated, murdered, or fired from our jobs and improvised.

One strategy that might work is to hurt the rich minority by boycotting their businesses. However, this is kind of a catch 22 idea because boycotts would financially hurt them but they might react by firing all their U.S. workers and hiring scabs and foreign workers.

So instead of looking for a solution maybe we just need to lube up, bend over, and take it like man. Yes, it's going to hurt, but what choice do you have? Are you and your friends going to start a revolution to take on a vast right-wing Mafia type organization? Are you going to run for political office and risk being assassinated? Are you going to protest in the streets with big mobs of unruly citizens while police and private security contractors smash your teeth out with their batons?

Our choices are very few but if we decide to do nothing that is still a choice we will have to live with, and it's a choice all future generations of our families will be stuck with. Therefore, following are my recommendations:

• Vote, but only vote for people who are not Republicans or Democrats and who are not connect to big corporate power.

• Boycott the major chain stores, restaurants, banks, professional sports teams, and businesses as much as possible by spending as little as possible. (see my Boycott List)

• Educate your family, friends, and fellow citizens about what has happened and what they can do to help. (see my book FIGHT)

• Protest in places where you can exit quickly, and with people that will fight to protect you.

Remember, your elected government leaders do not represent you. The government will not be there to help you in an emergency situation. The government is not on your side. Anything you say or do can and will be used against you by the government. The future is less about taking back your government and is more about survival in a fascist state. Doing nothing is not a honorable option.