Presently, our country is facing a major crisis with illegal workers pouring across our borders at over a million per year (if you believe this estimate). A country that can no longer control their borders can not protect, maintain, and defend its own sovereignty and identity.

To allow foreigners to enter your country illegally and while they continue to hold alliance with their country of birth, means that the laws of the country they illegally entered will not be obeyed nor respected and only taken for granted.

We the People--the American voters hold the keys to bringing this border madness and overall polarization to an abrupt end merely by the power of one person-one vote. We have allowed the elitist politicians of both parties along with the wealthy corporatist to dictate to over 285 million citizens what is in our best interest; when in all actuality it is for their own political gain and corporate entitlements and greed.

The elitist are using an old formula called "Divide and Conquer" to maintain their political power and corporate status quo. The powerful elite have ensured that the voting citizens who earn an income of $15,000 to $150,000 are pitted against one another under a multitude of dividing “Wedge Issues."

The Elitist have successfully pitted the following wedge issues to divide and pre-occupy the working poor and middle class of both major parties to vote against their best interest; beginning with Reagan Economics and Corporate De-regulation to the passing of NAFTA, WTO and CAFTA (1980 – 2005).

Here are the 15 Major Political Wedge Issues confronting the working poor and middle class in America:

1. Conservatives vs. Liberals,
2. Religion vs. Separation of Church and State
3. Blacks vs. Whites
4. Welfare and Social programs vs. Corporate Welfare
5. Unions vs. Right to Work
6. Free trade vs. Fair trade,
7. Minimum wage vs. Living Wage,
8. Gay Marriage vs. Husband & Wife Union
9. Anti-Abortionist vs. Pro Choice
10. Pork Barrel Spending vs. Smaller Fed. Gov’t
11. Equitable Wealth Sharing vs. Corporate Oligarchy
12. Affirmative Action vs. Legacy Inheritance
13. American Middle Class vs. Corporate Outsourcing
14. Cheap Foreign Labor vs. America’s Working Poor
15. Democracy in the Work Place vs. Corporate Accountability and
Responsibility

Politics is passion. Politics is conflict. But our government exists to solve problems, not exploit them. Those who see wedge issues in every controversy are putting the selfish needs of their candidates and party before the needs of the nation. That’s not the kind of politics we need today. If we allow wedge issues to continue to dominate and polarize our political system; America will soon resemble a third world financical basket case just like Mexico!!!

When our elections are over, the passions stirred up by the wedge issues don’t just go away. On the most controversial issues, like abortion, they don’t even go dormant. How are we the voter ever going to solve our most difficult issues if our elected leaders keep purposefully radicalizing the electorate? How can we even start a rationale debate when the corporate owned media fills its air-time with shouting talking heads rather than people who might actually offer solutions?

When we were attacked on 911 we were not thinking in terms of how many Republicans or Democrats were killed in the towers, pentagon and in a vacant field in Pennsylvania; we just understood that America was under attack and over 3,000 of our citizens were killed and we came together as one nation. The current administration with their corporate entities have declared war on the working poor and the middle class of this country all in the name of maintaining political power and obscene corporate profits.

The only way to make sure our elected officials realize that they work on be-half of the American people is to start voting down the middle on the major Wedge Issues confronting our country. The working poor and middle class voters in both republican and democratic parties have been pandered to and taken for granted. Our elected officials of both parties have passed bills and laws that overwhelmingly benefit the corporations.

Starting with the permanent tax breaks for the richest 2%, and the new bankruptcy bill. The convoluted and complicated Medicare bill and the outsourcing of hi-tech and white collar jobs. We can ill afford to continue voting for our own personal ideological right and left issues.

We must find away to come together, find common ground and compromise on the 15 major Wedge Issues, in the form of a constitutional solidarity. We the People must return our country back to its rightful balance and allow the American Dream to once again become a reality for the working poor and the middle class.

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This is an excellent post. I think the American people are getting tired of politics as usual and nothing getting done. I think it's time for a revolution, even it is just in the voting booth.

Rasta a beauitful post, kinda shows your sensitive side and that you care about all Americans, even conservatives. Thanks and your right we need to find some middle ground and work together as a country.

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Listening to congress today I heard the phrase Lou Dobbs Rep. and Lou Dobbs Dem. This man is trying, and some people in congress are listening. I'm a LB and my state politicians are going to hear about what We the People want.
Great post Rastaman.

Excellent post!!

Both parties continue to play on the fears of the voter, and unfortunately it continues to bear fruit for them.

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"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
John Galbraith

I read somewhere in the last couple of days that the middle class is dying. I don't beleive it, without the middle class to help pay taxes this country would be in trouble. We need to just start watching what our elected officals are voting on and let them know what they are expected to be doing.

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An informed voter scares the Goverment lackeys.

An American first and always a Conservative.

My questions is: Where do you start. The 15 issues you stated are very emotional issues for many. How do you find a compromise and then find a candidate/candidates that are willing to compromise.

Exactly. I believe the middle class pays a large share of the taxes if I am not mistaken.

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"A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done."
Fred Allen

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
George Bernard Shaw

"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
John Galbraith

And one that is willing to go head to head with those in their OWN party if need be, and not tow the line??

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"A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done."
Fred Allen

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
George Bernard Shaw

"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
John Galbraith

Rasta; excellent post. I have bee agreeing with you more than disagreeing with you. IS that a start?

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