The state of the union is fucked up. It is fucked up because we have politicians who are bought and sold by corporate lobbyists and who more often than not try to appease religious zealots rather than scientifically minded constituents.<\/p>\n
Our country and our world will not get better until we take the money out of politics and our politicians start listening to scientifically minded people. When all four of the remaining Republican candidates for President of the United States don\u2019t accept the science of evolution and global climate change and the current Democratic President seeking re-election doesn\u2019t care to support the teaching of evolution in schools even from his bully pulpit, we have a problem. When the current President doesn\u2019t act to prevent and reverse global climate change with anything more than his bully pulpit, we are in real trouble.<\/p>\n
For decades now, Presidents have been talking about alternative energy during their State of the Union addresses, but when are they going to act in a serious way about this. Where are the wind mill construction projects? When will there be solar energy panels on every home? Will we ever have mainstream cars that don\u2019t run on gasoline?<\/p>\n
The state of our union is fucked up when school children can go to prison for stealing pencils, but Wall Street executives get billion dollar bonuses for stealing from the American people and clasping the economy not just in America, but all over the world. If there is going to be a \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy, it ought to be on Wall Street, not Sesame Street.<\/p>\n
Of course there are many more examples to show that the state of our union is fucked up, but the real issue is what we are going to do about it? We need to hold our vote hostage and demand that our politicians not just support taking money out of politics, but actively push for it. We need to occupy our congressional representatives in the House and Senate by writing letters to them at their homes rather than their offices. And we need to question our elected officials at townhall meetings the way Jacob Kramer did. Here is the video:
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