Vote in November
Whatever could this gentleman mean?
Well, perhaps it’s a reference to the fact that the will of the people has exactly zero bearing on the way those people are governed.
Over 90% of American voters favor universal background checks for prospective gun owners, but this concept is so taboo that even a discussion of the subject on the floors of Congress is impossible.
From there, we can extrapolate into the overwhelming public support for the other things that government is actively working to squash: renewable energy, universal healthcare, better public schools, no looting of the U.S. treasury to provide tax cuts for billionaires, banking regulations, a functioning EPA, full support for the Mueller investigation, the withdrawal of the Kavanaugh nomination, and so many other good things that are simply never going to happen, given the rampant corruption that is the essence of life here in present-day America.
People: If you like what’s going on, stay home on November 6th. Otherwise, get out and vote.
Craig,
You seem to confuse ‘elected representative government’ with ” governance by media driven opinion polls”.
The US has a functioning form of ‘elected representative government’ which is as close to “democracy” as that ill-defined term can exist when charged with the responsibility of exercising administrative power and authority.
The losing side in any democratic process must at some point concede defeat and cooperate with the elected government or descend into bitter internecine partisan warfare rendering society unworkable and damaging the nations ability to cohesively deal with proper administration and economic progress.
For two years a large section of the US media and political left has been obsessed by a bitter resistance to accept defeat in an election.
The efforts to destabilize and de-ligitimize the administration are unprecedented in US history and the effort to required to sustain the hysteria and obsessive media focus is proving to be a battleground to decide if the democratic process itself can survive the attack from a powerful media and political elite alliance whose dominance is now challenged by those who have been ignored or neglected for so long.
I hope the American voters respond in November by rejecting the bullying and screaming hysteria of leftist lynch mobs and continue the process of restoring US prosperity and the aspirations of forgotten, neglected Americans.
Along time ago back in 1975, Australia underwent a similar experience when a leftist government was called to account and mounted a bitterly hysterical election campaign crying “the Governor-general has ended democracy by calling an election” !
The people didn’t agree and rejected the government by the largest landslide in the nations history.
“Democracy” requires opposition parties remain responsible and reasonable during periods out of office. New governments must be given a period of stability to govern or the nation remains paralyzed, locked in permanent state of hysterical election mode and instability.
In the sort of “winner take all” frenzy that now dominates US political life, every principle and ideal once held so precious by the framers of the US Constitution seems to have been forgotten by the US left.
The politics of “the end justifies the means” and “we had to destroy the institutions in order to save them” are always to the cry of those who seek retributive vengeance for a loss of power.
All revolutions eventually devour their own children. Just as the extremists of the Temperance movement devastated and corrupted American society, so will the extremists of “Me Too” etc, as their ranks become infiltrated by political opportunists and extremists who believe “Justice” can only be achieved by perpetrating acts of great “injustice”.
In the November election, amid all the hysteria, many Americans should reflect if they have not ” met the enemy, and discovered it to be themselves” !
Craig,
I have just read (and watched) Senator Susan Collins’ (R-Maine)speech to the US Senate on her support for the confirmation of now, Justice Kavanaugh, to the US Supreme Court.
The US senate has been the place of many instances of great oratory, but Senator Collins’ speech must be one of those rare instances were dignity, decency, moderation and just plain commonsense prevailed in an atmosphere charged with hysteria, cant, hypocrisy and naked “win at all cost” ambition.
This speech should be taught in US civic classes as a model for how legislators should behave and perform onerous public duties.
Every American should feel a sense of pride in the US political system being able to produce such a responsible legislator. Every commentator should take a lesson from the tone and context of her speech.
Mr Carter, I suggest you read Senator Collins speech, and reflect on how well American democracy is performing while the Republic can produce legislators of the quality of Senator Collins.
(I must also congratulate you Craig, for not buying into the unseemly and distressing debacle of the Kavanaugh confirmation).