The most common American problem today is one of choice. The contemporary American choice is made by someone who is overworked and has little time left over from shopping to really compose a thought on their own.The average American has so much competing for their attention spans they often conclude they may not have the resources to think freely or make educated decisions on their own.

When you can’t afford to think, the two-part choice is what you can afford. This cultural cornering goes to the advantage of a select few who offer us polarizing choices: Conservative Right vs. Liberal Left, Minority vs. Majority, Rich vs. Poor, Democrat vs. Republican.Those who choose another path altogether may be marginalized, ignored, antagonized, or find themselves in fights over their choices.

The media, politicians and the public routinely under-estimate American political behavior.There is no low percentile of Americans who feel badly about the current state of public policy in 2008. Constituents are prepared to do something they have never had the courage to do before: vote, become active, and making time to participate in their government. A common misconception is that Americans lack qualified demands of the government they so dutifully employ with their taxable earnings. Elected officials often represent what and whom they intend to, whether the majority of constituents benefit or not. They are compensated with fame, acclaim and a large paycheck, paid for in part by you, to represent you. The process seems a little unfair.

Activists approach a vast stonewall when advocating positions about our addiction to war spending, the Constitution, Geneva Convention violations, torture, impeachment, illegal wiretapping, economic tampering, white collar criminal injustice, and of letting corporations shot-call for the average American. Americans actively in touch with their rights and ideals resist being sifted by those who will follow an overindulged militarized establishment where “might is right.”

Alone with their computers, constituents follow their inner wisdom investigating what it would be like to have something different from today’s rotten apple or a rotten orange offered by conventional politics. Public attention spans visit their flights of fancy on YouTube, social networking websites, and scads of news websites where they are finding ways to get exactly what they want and the personal connections to do so.

The Internet’s electric execution of ideas manages a massive departure from mainstream media’s well worn path of notoriety. Selfimportant and well endorsed pundits are viewed as ineffectual and blind to the facts and opinions of Americans whose trust they have lost. They have little incentive to recapture them. Rewards of power, money and place transfix media titans, leaving no incentive to depart from their conventions. After all, they are the ones on TV, not you.

The politics of marginalized party platforms like the Libertarians, the Greens, the Communists, and the Peace and Freedom party are almost never seen or reported on by the mainstream media networks. Historical information is on the Internet about the defunct Democratic Republican party. This party split into what is now known as the Democratic and Republican parties. Media blackouts about these facts and more are avoided as people turn to the web and alternative press for information.

This is the composition of today’s political reality. Here we are facing the shouting accelerated versions of what we get to think, about and what we get to choose, in the hour of common political power. After the sound and lights go down, we still have a Constitution that gives us the right to stand as individuals for the issues that affect how we live our lives as Americans. Here are some key problem areas where people are tempted to blindly adopt one side of the political spectrum over another, and why.

The Problem of Racism, Gender Bias and Classism: These have been used to keep a “slave class” in place to serve an elite few. In the American
dream, no one wants to scrub the toilets so we try to leave that to people who aren’t really citizens or those who come from disadvantaged
backgrounds. Our past has been addled with people forced into these roles by those settled in the U.S.: African Americans, Native Americans, Chinese, Irish, Italians, Russians, and now Mexican immigrants. Gender biases in the past have been used to oppress at least 50% of the American population, to the exclusive cultural advantage of a patriarchal elite. Racism and Gender Bias are very much present in America. They wear the evolved mask of commercial competition and rival networks. Violence has been deliberately instigated in minority communities to keep doubt available for those ready to indulge a classist fantasy based on nationalism, human skin tone, or archaic gender values.

The Problem of America’s Ill: Insurance companies duly compensated for health insurance are paid even more to deny you healthcare. This abandons the ill and handicapped to rely on overburdened social systems and their own resources to heal. Health care professionals are stuck in the middle. They are often restricted from serving the sick they intended to heal. Pharmaceutical and insurance companies take full advantage of
the ill while lobbying Washington to look the other way. Those involved in a power jockey may seek to centralize health records and mandate
healthcare. Relying on the government exclusively for healthcare resources can be a much scarier prospect if you are denied healthcare for whatever reason with no other options.

The Problem of Religion: While the Constitution protects freedom of religion, it would be foolish to ignore religion in world power and its influence in U.S. politics. Religious entitlements in government have crept up in U.S. politics, as they always have in world politics, because of their ability to lead critical masses of people. A glaring example is the GOP’s use of the Christian Coalition as a blatant steerage tool, declaring George Bush as “a Christian President.” It was a grossly presumptive calculation that mislead the political service of the Christian church and America. Too many Americans may have looked the other way, believing maybe their God would prevail and rule the elite. When to the contrary, the greedy and those willing to deceive the well intended spiritual ideals of a theocracy, are routinely used to perform the most depraved and unjust acts in wars without the reprehension of a natural conscience.

The Problem of Liberal Left vs. Conservative Right: It seems if you agree with any socialized ideals you may be pushed “left” by self described
conservatives. If you have views about privacy and land rights that go against communal sensibilities, you may be marked as a “conservative” by
professing liberals.The economic platforms of contemporary politics include display of visceral hissing and spitting contests between said liberals and conservatives. Neither view provides pragmatic solutions suited to every community all of the time. If you refuse the label of “liberal” or “conservative,” you have a situation where it is tough to participate in politics with much relevance in America.

The Peoples Convention of Solutions to Name a Few... So what’s an American to do with only two choices? Here are some scenarios created for the people, by the people.

The Solution of Racism, Gender Bias and Classism: Racism has been considered a false construct by American historians to engineer economic strides for an elevated class. As long as we understand why people are dehumanized we can increase the cause of an average man’s dignity. If we disallow immigrants and foreign nationals to do the jobs we can do ourselves, it then becomes a problem for global elitists. Previously under-classed minorities now function at every level of professional and economic power in America and should be held accountable for both triumphs and failures by the justice system. Communities and individuals should not allow anyone to be bullied on the basis of race or gender. Conversely, they should not allow gender and racial entitlements as a guarantee for professional or economic advancement. May the best person win!