Oct
30
The Great Disconnect
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Our government no longer represents the people it is there to represent. That is either shocking news or old hat, depending on your political experience. What is so shocking about it today is how blatant it has become.
The corruption is so widespread and pervasive that it no longer even shocks us. One tactic that lawyers often use to throw their opposition of their tracks is to overwhelm the opposition with information. One lawyer requests 12 months past bank statements and he gets 4 years worth with every canceled check and accompanying financial document. The tactic is meant to overwhelm the other side and frankly to tire them. To sensationalize everything until nothing is sensational. That is precisely what our representatives have done to us. They have been so crooked and such liars that a tax cheat as Treasury Secretary doesn’t even phase us. When did it become acceptable for anyone, let alone a government official who presides over the IRS to evade taxes, mistakenly or otherwise? Haven’t we heard that ignorance is never a valid excuse. I know it wouldn’t be for you or me. What is sadder still is that staunch Democrats may write my rant off as partisanship. How sad has our system become when we all cannot agree that the law is the law and no one should break it. There should be no one (besides his defense attorney) defending him. My point is that special loans from a bank to a Senator don’t seem to matter. Tax cheats don’t matter. Affairs and sexual deviants don’t matter. We have been so overwhelmed by the vulgar, greedy, and illegal acts by many of our representatives that no crime they commit seems to matter anymore, as long as they are in the right party.
The real disconnect though has shown its ugly head in the form of Healthcare overhaul. I just heard that over 70% of the country does NOT want any changes, like the ones proposed, to our health care system. That is 7 out of every ten people telling Congress “No” and still they are proceeding with the most massive government program since Medicare and Social Security. It is absurd. Over the last Congressional recess, town halls indicated the country’s distaste. There is no way that a Congressperson could misread the mood of the people, yet they ignore it’. It used to be that when the constituents that elected you said “no”, you said “no”. Now it seems that when the people say “no”, Congress says, ” let them eat cake” They aren’t even trying to cover up their contempt for their employers.
The disconnect has grown so large as to render the democratic process on life support. We are nearly dead as representative republic and our country is getting labor pains from socialism. I am no radical right winger. I am a citizen. What happened of the tea parties? Was anyone listening? The fall of Rome could be attributed to many things, but chief among them was the devaluation of its citizenry. I don’t know about you, but I certainly feel like no one is listening. If they are listening they certainly don’t care.
