Propagandizing a "Pledge to America."

 I suppose the trite statement is true, those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.  So here we go again.  The first midterm after the election of Bill Clinton gave us Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" in 1994. So conveniently and predictably, we have the same backlash movement today with the Republican's own "Pledge to America."  Supposedly, this pledge was going to come straight from the people, through the website called "America Speaking Out."  What one would infer from this claim is that the things that most Americans wanted to see in the Pledge  would actually be in the document, and thus dictate the New Republican agenda..  However, that was not the case.  Yet the Republicans speak of this "Pledge" as if it came straight from the people.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UTNZofZbLU
Two very popular ideas from the website were for the legalization of marijuana and for the removal of tax breaks for those companies who outsource American jobs.  Well, the later is a great idea, and one the Barack Obama claimed to address as a political candidate, however, let us not be naive, Republicans will never address an issue that will hurt "Big Business."  They have always been on the side of 'Big Business" because they at least know where their bread is buttered.   They may not know much else, but at least they know who's interest they represent in Congress.
The original draft of this pledge was written by a staffer for John Boehner, named Brian Wilde, who was a former lobbyist for the Nichols Group. .  He formerly lobbied for corporations like AIG, Pfizer and Exxon Mobil to name a few.  Now he had drafted the "Pledge to America" as if anything in the document would benefit the average American.  This document is a pure tactical propaganda scheme.  The Republicans are skillful politicians.  The Party of "No" was more of a political strategy than an idealogical or principled stance.
So what I really want is for Americans to wake up.  Please stop allowing these people to manipulate your emotions and think for yourself.  Try to notice when it is your emotional connection to something that has you believing a certain way.  It is difficult to tease out the difference sometimes, America has become ":Sheep lead to a Slaughter.  These people don't represent your interests, and they never will.  They have developed an entire ideology that will justify them giving everything to the Rich people, and all their bidding is for the very Rich.  The average American is just a pawn.  We go through the motions of Democracy every year, but Democracy doesn't work if the people are ill informed and manipulated.