Abolish Partisan Politicians
Worldly things change but we remain essentially the same from one generation to the next. It’s our nature (most of us anyway) to find comfort and security in the familiar. I’ve heard more than a few times, the startling utterance, “Oh my God, I’ve become my father (or mother)”. We desire to be unique yet remain mainstream, we seek adventure yet we settle for security, we want to be in control yet need to be comforted. In this thinking we’ve compromised both our objectives and principles.
The human experience is a tale of genetic likenesses and shared experiential development appended by role and mentor modeling. We teach our children only our ideas of right and wrong, too often leaving God’s Word in the bed stand. Government on the other hand, is a thing, created by imperfect people, to serve imperfect people. Like every other enterprise, the people in charge of governments today tend to focus on their own human interests first, believing naively and inappropriately, in what’s good for “me” is probably good for everyone. Simply not so.
Bipartisan politics is one more good idea gone bad. Self interests have now surpassed special interests, which in turn have completely eradicated common or general interests. This was NOT the charter of our forefathers. “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”. Except for the “ourselves” part, this document and concept must seem unfamiliar and very unwelcome in congress.
Today, our congressional “representatives” spend most of their time drawing party lines in the sand. They posture and pose vehemently against anything the party across the aisle proposes, regardless of any practical common worth. Relying on them, WE accomplish nothing of common value. Congressional spare time is spent productively establishing one set of “diluted services” for the people and another (uncompromised and better) set for themselves. Both parties are and have been equally and universally guilty of these childish practices for several generations.
The time, need and value for and of a two party system has passed. The time for independent thinking and common interests is upon us again. We can’t expect congress to ever overturn their own teacup, it won’t happen by itself. A peaceful, grass roots revolution is warranted. A small group of brilliant new colonists, detached from government, is needed to find a new and better way to draft the best and brightest independent thinkers into short term “community” service for the common good of the majority. Then we need to force the issue by way of a special referendum, proposition and/or constitutional amendment down the selfish throats of our elected officials. In this wonderfully free nation, we should be able to do this. When congress resists, then we can joyfully “throw the bums out.”
JC Calkins, with Common Sense 4 Uncommon People
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