POLITICIANS HAVE 'EARNED' OUR DISTRUST

I find it revealing that after the people of Florida, Alaska and Delaware decided against a number of establishment Republicans, they and a few other old-time GOP politicians have taken to sharp criticism of the recent winners of those respective primary elections. They have actually decided not to support the winners of their party primaries. Sore losers?

While those ‘losers’ have been unwilling to fight the kinds of fights Democrats have levied against them in times past, they pulled out all of the dirty, low-down and sometimes vulgar tactics used so often by shameless leftists against Republican adversaries in their desperate attempts to hold onto their respective offices. Subsequent to their losses, they have chosen the low road of open bitterness and divisive rhetoric. Imagine that!

Not only have the likes of Charlie Crist, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Castle and Carl Rove failed to take a respectable and professional approach to those losses, they have ‘chosen’ to expose their bitter and emotional selves to the people. That exposure is quite telling…proving to We the People just how important those politicians believe themselves to be. The will of the people be damned!

Unity within the parties exists only so long as politicians play the game according to the rules…rules determined by our elite class of self-dealing politicians. It’s all about the power and the money and the special interests…about letting us believe they are looking out for us, while they plunder our wealth and chip away at our liberties. The Constitution be damned!

The above mentioned Republicans, along with others who have become vocal about their contempt for the people in the Tea Party movement…Trent Lott, a number of staff of Senator Jim DeMint, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and other notables…are now beginning to show their true colors. Although Republicans and Democrats believe in differing means to their ends, it is becoming increasingly clear that the actual ends are the consolidation of power unto themselves…at the expense of the wealth and liberty of people.

I have said it before. The folks in Washington, and at the state level, no longer wish to represent the people. Their interests and aspirations have taken them away from their oaths of office, away from the Constitutional limits to their authority and power. In office too long, they do not see themselves filling the role of ‘public servant’. They are in the game for the power, money and control.

As Thomas Jefferson once said; “Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct” and “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

Today’s politicians, from all parties, are proving Mr. Jefferson to have been a prophet.

A far too substantial number of politicians and government employees demonstrate to us by their actions, and by their inaction, that their values are contrary to those expressed in our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. They have believed, up to now, that we are too lazy, too ignorant and even too stupid to see what they are doing to us.

Now, the likes of Crist, Murkowski, Castle and Rowe are willing to risk the loss of some congressional seats in their effort to show the Tea Party…the people of the United States…who’s in charge. What message does this kind of behavior send to us? I suggest that the message is simply that the political machine is more important to politicians than the people and the welfare of the United States of America…that certain sacrifices must be made. Those sacrifices are expected to be made by us. Sacrifices are rarely, if ever, made by them.

Regardless of party, we have listened for far too long to what politicians have promised and paid far too little attention to what they have actually delivered. Rhetoric is meaningless pap. Actions and failure to act, on behalf of the people and the Constitution, are what we pay for. Both parties have, instead, chosen to take more of our wealth and to dominate American citizens through ever-growing and increasingly confusing and burdensome bureaucratic control.

Civil discourse is required to promote and discuss differing points of view. The discourse of politic in our country has degenerated into nothing more than childish put-downs, oneupsmanship, self-serving sound bites and incitement to class warfare. Such degeneration is not the result of intellectual prowess and persuasion. It is the result of a total disrespect for the American people, their intellectual abilities and at the same time a testament to the intellectual ineptitude of an undereducated [by choice] class of Americans.

We will never be able to hold our politicians to a ‘higher standard’. We will only be able to vote them in or out of office. To be effective, we must know who and what they really are. We must begin our view of our elected officials with distrust. Once left to their own devices, they will earn it.