Do you enjoy being ruled by the Republican-Democratic Party?

Do you enjoy being ruled by the Republican-Democratic Party? Are you proud to live a life of fear, insecurity and panic? Are you happy to see the place your family has owned for generations taken away for a bank? Do you want a regime that is turning the United States into a police state and giving Christianity a bad name? Are you proud to live under a government that harbours hundreds of terrorists in Miami? Are you proud to live in a nation ruled by extreme capitalism and religious conservatives? The capitalists have robbed your country of your equality and justice. They have destroyed your national parks and rivers and corrupted the media, your elections and your personal relations. They rule by threat of unemployment, hunger and homelessness based on the advice of a god called the market. They insist that their form of organizing a society and remaking the world is the one only form, the true form, the divine form. They see themselves as morality experts, even though they are ignorant. They bomb, they invade, assassinate, torture, overthrow, commit injustice, keep you and the world in poverty and claim it is in the name of God.
From the book 'Rogue State' by William Blum

Elections and this thing called democracy 2

Thus a nation with hordes of hungry, homeless, untended sick, barely literate, unemployed and/ or tortured people, whose loved ones are being dissapeared and/ or murdered with state connivance, can be said to living in democracy” its literal Greek meaning of “rule of the people” implying that this is the kind of life the people actually want – provided that every two years or four years they have the right to go to a designated place and put an X next to the name of one or another individual who promises to relieve their miserable condition, but who will typically, do virtually nothing of the kind; and provided further that in this society there is at least a certain minimum of freedom – how much being in large measure a function of one's wealth – for no one's to express one' views about the power that be and the workings of the society, without undue fear of punishment, regardless of whether expressing these views has any influence whatsoever over the way things are.
It is not by chance that the United States has defined democracy in this narrow manner. Throughout the Cold War, the absence of “free and fair” multi party elections and adequate civil liberties was what marked the Soviet foe and its satellites- These nations, however provided their citizens with a relatively decent standard of living in terms of unemployment, food, health care, education, etc., without omnipresent Brazilian torture or Guatemalan death squads. At the same time, many of America's Third World allies in the Cold War – members of what Washington liked to refer to as “The Free World” - were human rights disaster areas, who could boast of little other than the 60 second democracy of the polling booth and tolerance for dissenting opinion so long as it didn't cut too close to the bone or threaten to turn into a movement.
Naturally. The only way to win Cold War propaganda points with team lineups like these was to extol your team's brand of virtue and damn the enmy's lack of it, designating the former “democracy” and the latter “totalitarianism”.
From the book 'Rogue State' by William Blum

Elections and this thing called democracy 1

During the Clinton administration, the sentiment has been proclaimed on so many occasions by the president and other political leaders , and dutifully reiterated by the media, that the thesis “Cuba is the only non-democracy in the Western Hemisfere” in now nothing short of received wisdom in the United States.
Les us examine this thesis carefully for it has a highly interesting implication.
Throughout the period of the Cuban revolution, 1959 to the present, Latin America has witnessed a terrible parade of human rights violations – systematic, routine torture; legions of “disappeared” people, government supported death squads picking off selected individuals; massacres en masse of peasants, students and others groups, shot down in cold blood. The worst perpetrators of these acts during all or part of this period have been the military and associated paramilitary squads of El Salvador, Guatemala, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Uruguay, Haiti and Honduras.
Not even Cuba's worst enemies have charged the Castro government with any of these violations and if one further considers education and health care – each guaranteed by the United Nations “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” and the “European Convention for the Protection of Humans Rights and Fundamental Freedoms” - “both of which, “said President Clinton, “work better (in Cuba) than most other countries”, then it would appear that during the more than 40 years of its revolution, Cuba has enjoyed one of the very best humans rights records in all of Latin America.
If, despite this record, the United States can insist that Cuba is the only “non-democracy” in the Western Hemisphere, we are left with the inescapable conclusion that this thing called “democracy” as seen from the White House, may have little or nothing to do with many of our cherished human rights. Indeed , numerous pronouncements emanating from Washington officialdom over the years make plain that “democracy”, at best , or at most, is equated solely with elections and civil liberties. Not even jobs, food and shelter are part of the equation.
From the book 'Rogue State' by William Blum

The bin Ladens

The bin Ladens are one of the wealthiest families in Saudi Arabia. Their huge construction firm virtually built the country , from the roads and power plants, to the skyscrappers and government buildings. They built some of the airstrips America used in your dad's Gulf War, and they renovated the holy sites at Mecca and Medina, Billionaires many times over, they soon began investing in other ventures around the world, including the United States. They have extensive business dealings with Citigroup, General Electric, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and the Fremont Group – a spin-off of energy giant Betchel. According to The New Yorker, the bin Laden family also owns a part of Microsoft and the airline and defense giant Boeing. They have donated $2 million to your alma mater, Harvard University, $300,000 more to Tufts University, and tens of thousands more to the Middle East Policy Council, a think tank headed by a former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Charles freeman. In addition to the propierty they own in Texas, they also have real state in Florida and Massachusetts. In short, they have their hands deep on our pants.
Unfortunately, as you know, Mr. Bush, Salem bin Laden died in a plane crash in Texas in 1988 (his father, Mohammad, also died in a plane crash in 1967) . Salem's brother's – there are around 50 of them, including Osama – continued to run the family companies and investments.
After leaving office, your father became a hihgly paid consultant for a company known as the Carlyle Group. One of the investors in the Carlyle Group was none other than the bin Laden family. The bin Ladens put a minimum of $2 million into the Carlyle Group.
From the book 'Dude,Where's My Country' by Michael Moore