The Majority Oppose the War With Iran — So Why Does Nobody Get a Vote?
Isn’t it really fucking weird to anyone else that while the majority of Americans oppose the war with Iran, 55 - 60 %, we all just sit around hoping that the senate passes a resolution to end Trumps authority, then the house passes the resolution, then Trump doesn’t veto it but if he does that the senate and house again pass the same resolution. And that that’s how our government works?
We have no other authority as citizens of this country to decide if we go to war or not. Where we spend billions and then trillions of dollars? That the majority of us sit around praying for something to happen and then when it doesn’t we go oh those damn republicans. Or oh those damn Democrats. And meanwhile the thing we want to get done doesn’t get done?
Does anyone else sit around thinking that? Does anyone else when they see that the house cancelled a vote on the resolution because it would have passed because of the intentional absence of republican lawmakers think what the fuck kind of world do we live in where these same idiots who have failed us for decades are allowed to continue to fail us, and oh destroy another country in the process?
I read the news and hear what’s going on and I am just baffled by the level of acceptance we all have for the status quo. Myself included. I try to share my opinion, and protest, and vote for the people who maybe will do good, and try to spend my money with companies doing good, but really nothings changing because of that. And I just can’t imagine how it could be that the majority of the people in the world just let out a collective sigh every time these useless politicians fail us again and again. There has to be an alternative way. This can’t be the best system. It just can’t.
Of course war with Iran isn’t the only thing the majority of Americans agree on but can’t seem to get accomplished. The majority of Americans support safety net programs such as Medicaid and SNAP and are opposed to reducing funding for either one, and actually favor increased spending. The majority of Americans. A federal paid family and medical leave program is supported by over 80 percent of Americans and yet we are the only developed nation without one. While what type of universal healthcare, government run or private mix, is often debated, over 60 percent of Americans support universal healthcare more broadly indicating that if anyone in a leadership role actually cared to figure out a plan it would be met with cheers.
But yet all of these things remain on the docket year after year with the majority of Americans wishing and hoping for them to pass. Wishing and hoping that the lawmaker they vote for will actually shake off lobbyists and big interest groups to get something done for them. But they don’t.
In the last two states I’ve lived in, California and Colorado, legislation that the people want passed is put to the voters in the form of ballot measures. The citizens, the tax payers, of the states and counties get to decide where our tax money goes, where our politicians focus their time and energy. Isn’t there a way for this method to be adopted more broadly to the federal government. More than three quarter of Americans think the federal minimum wage of $7.25, which has been that much since 2009, should be raised (again the only divide is on how much to raise it). Isn’t that something that we could put to a vote of the citizens? The ones directly impact by such amounts?
There’s a better way to do it. With technology it should be an easy lift to poll the country and find out what we want to happen, where to want to spend our money, and where we want our politicians to focus. Every major decision should pass through the hands of the citizens. Not the lawmakers who are more interested in lining their pockets and ensuring their campaign is funded to fight for another term in congress (which oh by the way is another one where the majority of Americans agree, 80 percent, that term limits are needed). There is a better way if we want it.