House of Representatives: Green Change, Politics for Real People

 Our country was once based on ideals of freedom and choice. But, for 237 years we have been held to an Us vs Them system. A duopoly of politics where the two parties are merely just opposite sides of a single coin. We are left choosing which option seems less detrimental to us. This isn't real choice. Without choice we have no freedom.

Everyone I talk to has a different story. Health care driven by insurance companies for profit. Education money going to private school profits instead of children's education. Corporations taking lands, polluting environments, destroying the earth, for profit. The 99% of real Americans bear the consequence of their actions, for none of the profit.

In my lifetime, education has suffered, healthcare has suffered, climate has suffered. We have polluted lands, dried up rivers, and created islands of garbage in the oceans. We have made Americans sick from the food that is supposed to keep us alive. All for someone else's profit. We give billions of dollars to Israel to murder hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Make no mistake, it's not our war, therefore it is murder.

The standard American diet, the age old "food triangle" was never meant to keep us healthy. It was meant to get Americans to buy dairy and meat. Foods we don't need. These industries have become so big, they are allowed to make us sick with impunity. Pasteurization means the blood and pus from dairy cow infections, are sterilized but they are still part of your dairy. Meat in the grocery store is not free of salmonella, FDA allows 7-25% salmonella positives over collected samples during a year. Meat was never meant to be the mainstay of your diet. Early settlers often suffered from gout because of their consumption of meat. It is also a great source of trans fats. These are the things that contribute to heart, kidney, liver, and vascular disease as well as diabetes.

Politics rarely evokes praise from anyone but politicians. This tells us one thing, they are politicking for themselves, not us. We the people. The 99% of real Americans. In my lifetime the wealthy have increased their incomes by a factor of 10,000 while the 99% of real Americans have increased ours by a factor of 10.

The old ways have failed us. Our population is growing, our discovery, technology, medicine and science are advancing. We need new ideas to accommodate the new world we are heading into. Old ways no longer work. We need change.

Because the past is not the path to the future.