The Inaugural Address.......

My fellow Americans......
When I was in high school, I wanted to be a Supreme Court Justice and ultimately the first female president of the United States.  Well, this is as close as I'm ever going to get to giving an inaugural address.  Quite frankly, with the state of politics in America today, I would have to run as a woman without a party.  In my youth, I was a die-hard Democrat, illogically liberal, and foolishly idealistic.  Now, I am an adult who has been in the real world for quite some time, and now I have no political affiliation, I'm pretty middle-of-the-road moderate, and realistically idealistic.  I am appalled at the state of the political landscape in the US today.  And I am flabbergasted at the blind loyalty people will pledge to political parties who care nothing about them  except for the thirty seconds it takes for them to vote.  Republicans make me so angry.  They lay the problems of the nation squarely at the feet of Democrats who have been in control for the past three and a half years.  Do they not recall that it was a Republican president who began 2 wars (those in that same party cried foul EVERY time any mentioned any type of withdrawal or troop drawdown-until now of course) that have drained the economy?  Do they not recall that it was a Republican president who issued the first $800 billion plus stimulus package?  Do they not recall that under a Republican president, we raised the debt ceiling EIGHT times?  Tea Party Republicans are far worse.  They have hijacked the arguments and ideologies of our founding fathers, yet perverted them to cater to the upper socioeconomic classes of the nation.  Instead of "Don't Tread On Me", their motto should be "Feed the Rich".  Democrats are no better.  They have become a party of give, give, give to everyone and anyone.  Spend now and find a way to pay later. We send billions of aid all over the world to nations that HATE us.  They continue to allow entitlement programs when we should be finding ways to ween people off of them.  Doesn't it make you absolutely angry to stand in a pharmacy and see someone pay with medicaid, and then follow them out of the store only to see them get into an Escalade or a Mercedes??  We have become a nation of extremists on both sides and left wing extremists are no safer than right wing extremists (except that left wingers usually don't carry guns, lol).  Both political parties are responsible for the sad state of affairs in our country today.  Equally so.
So what's the answer?  The answer is a third party revolution.  And no, the Tea Party is not a third party.  It's a crazy faction of the mainstream Republicans.  Starting in the 1870s, conditions were eerily familiar.  Big business seemed to rule Washington. The banking industries seems completely out of control.  And both of the mainstream parties were ignoring the issues important to most "middle Americans".  By 1892, a true third party, the Populists, had emerged and became perhaps the most significant and successful third party in the history of nation.  Well, it's time to replicate that grass roots movement.  We have to stand up as citizens and remind people in Washington that they work for us.  We don't work for them or their special interest donors.  
To quote Thomas Jefferson, "We in America do not have government by the majority.  We have government by the majority who participate."  It's time we all stand up and do so.
I'm Jennifer Holland, and I approved this message.  God Bless America.  :)