Our Democratic Republic
I am sitting here this morning
watching a session of our House of Representatives on television. They are
obviously debating, but whom? It’s an almost empty house. There’s nobody there
except a handful. I have always been taught that a debater needs a
debatee—someone to debate, someone to listen. The Congressional Record
certainly doesn’t listen, and I find it difficult to believe our
representatives read everything printed within. What is all the talk other
than, for the most part, political PR? It’s certainly not a real debate. What
good is an empty house? It sure doesn’t beat a full house, now does it?
To paraphrase
the late Winston Churchill, one of the greatest, if not the greatest, leaders
who has ever lived, who is quoted to have said, “A democracy is one of the
worst forms of government there is, but I can’t think of any better”, ours, the
democratic republic of The United States of America, appears to be a prime
example. On the whole, speaking in general, our citizens, the electorate, who
are responsible for deciding who our representatives will be and, therefore,
the direction of our nation, frequently don’t vote; and, those who do, vote
based on uninformed opinion and prejudice with little or no knowledge of the
real facts involved or where our country is going. It would appear they have
little time or interest. As a consequence and/or in conjunction with this, the
representatives who are elected fail to represent the people who voted for
them, representing, rather, those who seduce them with campaign contributions,
bribes, and special favors, effectively passing control of our nation from the
people to a shadow government of huge multi-national corporations and very rich
and powerful elite, i.e. an oligarchy of the Corporatocracy and Power Elite, which really governs us.
There
is no doubt about it. Our Founding Fathers were brilliant. They were geniuses.
But none could see three hundred years into the future nor should they be so
expected. Times now are as different as day and night from times past. It is
time for an update. It is time for a change. We need to amend our Constitution,
bringing it forward to the present. It is past time to rid ourselves of our
shadow government. Only Americans should rule America and that should be a rule
by all Americans—not just the rich and powerful here and abroad.
In the mean time, this is Ronald
Miller, www.sageobserver.blogspot.com,
signing off. Email me at mtss86@comcast.net.
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