Democracy, by definition, gives power to the people to choose leaders and how our nation is governed. Well, democracy is failing us. Politics aren’t about people… wait... let me rewind, politics aren’t about 99 percent of us—politics are about the 1 percent.

There is a vicious cycle in this country of ours that involves two things: money and power. Those in powerful positions either have money, or people with money put the person they want to have power in power. The illusion of democracy makes us feel like we put them there, or that we even want them there. It is like having a carwash to raise money for a trip to D.C. only the person who raises the most gets to stay there and call all of the shots. At least he or she thinks…

Screw the popular vote, and who has the most support from the 99 percent; they will appoint the person who will continue to line the pockets of the rich—the person who will tow the line for “big Pharma,” “Big Oil,” or whatever lobby group that paid enough money to shape the regulations or lack thereof that rule their industry. It’s not about democrats and republicans, it’s not about liberals and conservatives, it is not about left and right; it is about money feeding power and power feeding money.

Wake up!

This voting thing we so proudly take part in is about as useful as dangling keys if front of a crying baby, it shuts us up; it pacifies us. We are being lied to. The powerful people want nothing to do with democracy. You see, the problem with dangling keys in front of a crying baby is eventually the baby gets tired of the keys and starts crying again. Eventually you are going to have to deal with the reason why the baby is crying, not just the act of crying.

Eventually, the voices from down below are no longer going to be pacified by illusion of democracy and we will demand it. This has happened before, but the amplified ideology from viewing deck overpowers the ideology of rising from below where the rest of us reside. It is happening right now, we have a candidate who is using his platform to advance a revolution, but he is being stonewalled at every turn and blacked out by mainstream media. The ones who stand to lose, the ones who have shook us down, the ones who fueled the illusion of democracy are drowning his ideology out.

It is time to stand up for democracy. We the people have been told that our voice matters, therefore we the people need to make our voices heard. We can no longer stand idly by waiting for something to change when it is clear that it's not going to. We cannot keep thinking that the blue team is any different than the red team because they are not.

Democrat, Republican, they are all the same; greedy power-hungry politicians who want us all to get in line to “make America great again.” Okay, then listen to what we are saying. They say that they are for America, well then listen to what we are saying. I am neither Democrat or Republican; I am neither left nor right; I am neither liberal nor conservative; I am an American and I want a government of the people, for the people and by the people. To quote Rage Against the Machine, it is time to “take the power back.”