Political figures spit-speckle spar in public in faux battles carried by the mainstream media as real. In private, they work closely together to feather their own nests, to make political life as work-free, convenient—and as rich—as possible.
As Tea Party leader and Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Paula Helton has written in these pages, while younger, more deserving Americans have had to move from full-time jobs to part-time ones, dozens of U.S. senators are living the easy life in their 60s, and 70s.
Why aren’t the Republicans putting up any kind of fight against an ObamaCare that is knocking millions off their health care insurance?
The answer to that question is downright baffling in its simplicity. Politicians from both sides of the political aisle, and many of their staffers, are exempt from Obama’s signature health care policy. They, therefore, have zero political will to fight off something that doesn’t affect them or their families directly.
“No skin off my nose” is what they’re telling each other when they congregate at Happy Hour.
We should stop thinking of politicians as right or left, Democrat or Republican. Modern-day politicians are, by and large, con men and con women, who have found the fast route to easy living on the backs of others.
Politicians belong to a special club that imbues them with a special club mentality. In layman’s language it works out to “You cover my back; I’ll cover yours”.
Have you ever pondered why no Republican has ever stepped forward to try to block Obama’s Fundamental Transformation of America? If one could be easily cowed by ominous threats to their family’s safety, what about a group coming forward to do what needs to be done above all else?
Let’s not kid ourselves. It’s not threats to family that’s keeping them silent, it’s threats to the comfy status of their easy lives.
No matter how ‘transformed’ America becomes politicians on the imaginary ‘other side’ will still get their pay checks, still have the many benefits automatically awarded to politicians of the day.
Why did Obama blame the Republicans for the recent government shutdown? Because the mainstream media would report it as the unquestioned truth.
This big lie is a uniquely transparent one because it is easy to see that Obama can change anything he wants with the stroke of a pen and has been doing so for five long years. It’s called signing executive orders.
All of the above and more is going on over the heads of most people every day.
Most politicians of the day have found their comfort zone and are there for the long run. They’re on the inside where the torment of taxpayers easily bounces off them. It is their constituents who are on the outside. And any constituent who pushes the envelope can be readily smeared as a radical dissident. How they must chuckle among each other when they receive urgent telephone calls and petitions at their office.
If you catch them on Fox News and CNN interviews, they are going for each other’s throats, at least verbally. But these interviews, too, are part of the Act and a major waste of everyone else’s time.
The first Golden Rule for citizen safety: Elected politicians of the day don’t hate each other; they work together.
Golden Rule No. 2: Get out of the audience. Make them play to an empty theatre.
The only ones they hate are those who try to come crashing through their tightly-shut doors and those who dare to tell the truth. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Christians, small-c Conservatives, Tea Party members, lovers of the Constitution and memories of President Ronald Reagan loom large on their Enemy Hit List.
The few willing to give it the proverbial college try they leave for the media to libel and smear into silence.
Think of the ongoing Act of Washington politicians as the Jerry Springer Show of reality T.V.
Every once in awhile they throw a little crumb of hope to the chattering classes. Obama’s down in the 30s in popularity, Darrell Issa’s going to more closely question Hillary Clinton on Benghazi. Congress is demanding to know why the ObamaCare website became such an epic failure.
And who does Congress ask about the failing healthcare.gov?
Prime Obama health hack Kathleen Sebelius.
Talk, talk, talk is a big part of their Act.
Congress will never impeach Obama because Obama’s their bread and butter.
Is there any way out of the dark into which politicians have plunged civil society?
It may take time, but midterms are only a year away and after that another two years in the tenure of the Destructor in Chief.
Finding the light has to start somewhere.
The way out of the dark can be found in electing people able to put their country and the future of their children and grandchildren ahead of personal gain and ego. Even if it’s only a handful, people who have a mission at heart even before getting elected; people who will join up with the mere handful of decent senators and reps already there. The newly elected can work out the details about how to fire Obama with Cruz and Company. Fire, not impeach because Impeach has become only a useless word and not an action. Next, bring in legal beagles capable of finding the ways to restore the Constitution. They can call it ‘The Fundamental Restoration of a Transformed America’. Finally, bring in the best forensic accountants available to go through the books so that America can be run as it should: as a thriving business counted on the world over.