On December 8th, Congress voted on a bill to ban computer bot programs from buying concert tickets online. Senator Jerry Moran from Kansas stated this was to "level the playing field" for people buying concert tickets online. While this is nice bump for folks wanting to just tune out, it also shows the level that Congress has tuned out to hearing American's bigger and more pressing problems.

Yes, being able to buy tickets is nice and all, but it is to my knowledge that people in Flint, Michigan still do not have clean drinking water. I am pretty sure that clean drinking water is much more meaningful than tickets to a Drake concert. Do you think Congress remembers that twenty veterans a day commit suicide? My guess is no. They want to worry more if they will be able to get Taylor Swift concert tickets so they can watch her dance and shake her ass, yet fail to have votes on ways to get proper care to veterans.

Congress, as of today, has an approval rating of eleven percent; barely 1 out of 10 people actually like the way our country conducts policy. How can they not? I could list a million issues of the top of my head that need the attention of our nations leader. It is pretty clear that Congress as a whole is only voting on issues that they care about. They are mostly rich and want to go out and party; not a care in the world about the people who elected them. I mean seriously; we have hired oil company thugs beating the living shit out of Native Americans on their own land to build a pipeline. I do not think I need to remind everyone that America already stole Indians land before yet our leaders seem to have no objections to do it again.

It seems like a running trend that our leaders seems to easily forget lessons of the past. Remember Iraq and how that turned out? Around 7,000 American troops dead and over a million injured. Now our leaders seem eager to repeat this mistake in Syria. One million injured veterans, most of which cannot get any decent health care, a majority probably dealing with some form of PTSD. Not a single vote taken to expanding the Veteran's Act so those veterans are taken care of after putting their lives at risk in a proxy war that congress also voted to get involved in the first place.

How does this change? Mid-term election 2018, have serious progressives get elected and hold the house and part of the senate. Then run a true progressive in 2020 and hope to whatever deity you believe in Trump does not mes it up beyond repair. That being said, this kind of leadership is great for the progressive cause. People will be forced to accept that neither the Republican nor Democratic party truly care about the majority of citizens. They are profit driven corporate tools, they do their donors biding, pass anti-progressive policy, get involved in foreign wars for oil, and are generally incompetent in understanding the bigger issues the American people face.

So, remember when you are happy that you can get Ariana Grande concert tickets, some kids are in Flint drinking lead water and will live short and painful lives because of a lack of healthcare. We need to change the system; we need progressives.