How Did We Get Here?

How did we get here? How does a country founded on such amazing and just principles become so filled with finger pointing, with no one taking responsibility for their actions –their party’s mistakes? How is it Republican’s actually deem liberals and Democrats as the ones to blame for everything wrong in this country? How can the Democrats and liberals actually fault our entire government’s incompetence solely on Republicans and conservatives? Is either party serious when they –are they honestly expecting us to take them seriously?

They’ve continued the status quo of no energy policy, of a crumbling infrastructure –our grid is almost 100 years old! Yes! It is the Federal government’s responsibility to pay for the country’s electrical grid and contribute to new energy development. That’s why it is called the country’s grid and a national energy policy. Neither party actually cares about education. Can anyone even point an educated Senator or Representative out? What is it at now? About 10-15% of elected officials, upon researching and following their actions and what they have to say give the impression of being well educated and appear to grasp the issue? Maybe 10-15% is too kind but we’ll allow the benefit of the doubt. Do any of our government officials even have an education –one worthy of the position(s) they hold? Republicans want to privatize (even though none of the Founders believed in privatized education unless it was a university) and the Democrats just want to throw money at it without caring about demanding actual results –even if their party’s’ nominee is for actual accountability; at least that’s his rhetoric. Wait, isn’t that all we’ve done? Elected the man with the oratory we’ve liked best? When do we stop electing people as mere cheap grace? When does this country stop acting like they’ve made up for all of its past mistakes with one vote? When do we start looking inward to us? Inward to how we could allow this to be our elected representative government?
Stop. Let me fall back. Are you, the Republican, the Democrat, reading this and understanding your party’s are incompetent? Are you the Independent understanding you’re not doing enough by simply not being a registered Democrat or Republican? Do you understand how badly both parties need to change? Is it too much to ask for one of the party’s to admit that this economic mess doesn’t happen without both of them looking out solely for their interests? Have we reached the point where we can admit this mess is part stupid regulation, part over de-regulation? Hold on. Let us ignore the political blame and touch on the heart and truth of the matter. Rather did we get to the point yet where we can shred the politics out of this mess and remember that devoid of the lenders being responsible and honorable, it would’ve been irrelevant what de-regulation or dumb regulation took place?
Can we as a country declare we elected this government? We elected every president we now carp. We voted for these Senators, we chose these House of Representatives’.
Does anyone think this happens if our education system was up to par? Can anyone sincerely think our current direction isn’t a direct result of our lackadaisical mind-set toward our responsibility of keeping our choices accountable to us? Can we admit that today’s younger generation(s) are far more up on current events than previous generations yet never take the time to truly learn the history of not only this country but others? How about our country’s interactions with other ones? Can we admit not all of our Middle-Eastern problems were formed by President Bush? Can today’s Bush haters ever admit that President Clinton didn’t have a good foreign policy either? For that matter, can they ever admit that we have nation built long before our current attempts at nation building?

Lobbying started as a good thing. It did. Some Senators and Representatives would be completely lost on certain issues without a lobbyist to explain what a piece of legislation would actually do. The problem is we keep electing these people even after they’ve proven they know nothing without talking to a lobbyist first.

Why is it idealistic to want a government official who has read and understands the fears and hopes that our Founders had? Not just the main six or so that are always written about and spoken of but the other ones. The ones that truly got things started like Patrick Henry & Samuel Adams. What about the man who actually wrote our Constitution, Gouverneur Morris? How about the man trusted to head the Committee of Details that hammered out the majority of the early compromises in order to save the Constitutional Convention from disbanding, John Rutledge? At this point we’d be lucky to have a governing body that even knew the history of the main six that are held to a god like stature. On a side note, was it maybe a bad thing that our second and third president weren’t actually a part of the writing of our constitution -that they weren't at the Constitutional Convention? They both thought highly of the group of men but neither was actually there to have first hand knowledge of the daily debates and arguments. Simply a pondering.

There is simply no way either party at this point can claim to be traditionalists –in regards to government function. That's a good thing in many ways and horrible in others. So few of the Founders actually believed that one generation should ever presume to know what is or would be best for the generation after them. If they had, the ability to add amendments would’ve never been written into the Constitution. That was a huge leap of faith on there part. Muse this over: we wouldn’t have a Bill of Rights without the ability to add amendments. Consider that for a minute. Stop. I said reflect on that for a minute.