We are proud to say that we live in a democracy, here in America, in the year 2023. I don’t believe it is a “working” democracy. It is a two party system, with the two parties at war. As is common to war, there isn’t much clear and constructive thinking. The goal is winning not achieving. Each of the parties fights the other as if they are small children. The parties control the legislators and large dollars control the parties. Am I a pessimist or a clear eyed observer of the functioning of our government? Please take a look at a small sample.
There are clear thinking, moral
representatives who believe that an abortion is an unjust act against an unborn
human. There are thinking, moral
representatives who believe that the decision to abort or not to abort an
unborn is a decision best made by a pregnant woman and her doctor. Legislators are not free to use their best
judgement and their wisdom on this legislation, in representing the will of
their voters, but instead are held to the position of their political
party. It is not a rational party
issue. If a representative were to go
against their own better judgement, the only justifiable outside influence
would be their voters’ wishes. And, who
on Earth would turn the will of the people over to 9 lifetime appointees,
elected by no one, to make the decision?
We have an annual military budget that is
nearly a trillion dollars and is larger than the annual military budgets of the
next 10 nations combined. Our government is about to consider not
paying its debts. Defaulting on the
payment for items and services already received. A government considering not honoring its
word. Moral issues aside, it will up
interest rates in America for everyone.
Have you voted for someone who is in favor of not paying our debts? I will guarantee you that the last people not
paid will be munitions manufacturers.
Those folks have the political influence required to get an over 80% bipartisan
vote for an annual budget increase of 20 to 30 billion dollars to an already
out of line military spending program.
We have a government that won’t enact laws
to effectively regulate the sale of deadly weapons to our citizens, insane
members of which are murdering large numbers of students, church goers,
minorities and very soon political partisans.
Over 70% of the voters would like to see these implements of death
logically regulated. Where is the
legislative action and why so slow in coming?
We recently saw 15 ballots required for the
House of Representatives to elect a majority leader. Democrats made a unanimous decision to elect
their minority leader in the first ballot.
A unanimous vote tends to indicate that individual thinking is not taking
place. The Democrats vote as a well-regulated
rubber stamp. The Republicans vote as a
poorly regulated rubber stamp. Are there
not 10 or 20 Democrats who would have preferred Katy Porter or someone else to
be their elected majority leader? There
were 10 or 20 Republicans who preferred someone other than Kevin McCarthy as
their majority leader and so voted.
Kevin is a man who on one day blamed Donald Trump for the January 6th
insurrection and the next day was playing golf with The Donald in Mara
Lago. Kevin had over 90% of the
Republican votes on the first ballot.
This should have elected him.
What business is it of the Democrats who is elected as the Republican
Majority Leader? Let each little group
of lemmings elect their own leader. The
rules for that election are poorly designed and teach unreasonable party
control. Fix the (God Damn) system! The present system gave nut cakes unearned, unreasonable
power over the House majority party through concessions of the candidate.
If you remove political parties from
Washington, DC, you will remove the above problems and many others. Throw out the lobbyists while you are at
it. Then the lawmakers will represent
their voters, not their party. It’s
called a functioning democracy.
Cheers, Old
Buz 1/18/2023
“There is a willful blindness that marches alongside
loyalty.” – Old Buz
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