I want to remind everyone here, conservatives and liberals alike, and also those who aren’t sure what stand they take, that it’s NOT ENOUGH to merely vote in national elections. You say politicians do what they want when they get into office? Well, WE THE PEOPLE have the responsibility AND THE POWER to stop them from that practice!!! We have been disengaged from the political process for a long time, and it’s time that all of us got re-engaged. You don’t like what your Senator or Representative is doing on the Hill? VOTE THEM OUT! Call their offices, go see them when they are at home! Go to their Town Hall meetings!!! Get off your complaining arses and DO SOMETHING! Did you know you can call the President and leave a voice-mail? You may say, “That doesn’t accomplish anything.” Well, then, start locally and GO TO YOUR CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS! Make time for our process of government. It starts locally and goes out from there!
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That’s all well intentioned but it sounds rather naive, like something out of a Frank Capra movie, especially given that the Republicans have rewritten the rule book to favor the coronation of “conservatives” like Mitt Romney - in other words, anyone or any interest (see Citizen’s United) who is capable of buying an election. In November, you will be doing no more than giving your approval to one of the oligarchy’s two preselected candidates (both who happen to have pro-abortion, anti-constitution, big-government records).
In think Karen Kwiatkowski had it right when she wrote recently in “What I Saw at the Convention” that:
I spent a day of my life at the 2012 Republican Convention. The plan was to stay for full four days, but the choreographed and staged “decision-making” made the 2,000 plus delegates irrelevant. Republican Party members hoping to see democracy in action were left staring at a fuzzy gray screen, listening to static, beating their heads against padded white walls. No free man would subject himself to such idiocy. As Doug Wead so delightfully put it, the party has been reduced to “ten fat men sitting in a room.”
One of these fat men is John Sununu. Watching him on Tuesday afternoon steamroll the wishes of half of the delegate floor, and destroy what was left of the integrity of the GOP, I was strongly reminded of Nurse Ratched running the floor at the Salem State Hospital. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ratched dominates her fiefdom sternly, with her contempt for her charges oozing with her every smirk, and every command. This evil queen saw criminality in a raised eyebrow, revolution in a meek request for equality. Punishment for dissenters would be quick, overwhelming, and comprehensive. John Sununu’s totalitarianism was on display, and his goal seemed obvious: the literal and figurative lobotomy of the constitutional and liberty movement within the party.
As with the Salem State Hospital, the world of the RNC convention, the world of ten fat men, their sycophants and enablers, is a small place, removed from natural law, and removed from the reality of America. This is the real blessing – we can and are walking away. Millions of us are literally and figuratively walking away from the kabuki theater of neoconservative statism posing as a popular problem solving. We can do this!
If our own party’s Nurse Ratched didn’t frighten from the stage, we have Romney campaign lawyer and strategist Benjamin Ginsburg orchestrating totalitarianism from behind the curtains. He has been called a bête noire of the Tea Party, but he’s really just a lawyer – the very kind of lawyer that Clint Eastwood was talking about.
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Couldn’t have said it better Karen!
