Another Political Rant

I have lived under the leadership of 11 Presidents.  Men like Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon (before Watergate), Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, and Clinton.  Their accomplishments aside, and they were many, as were their failures, I believed we could trust these men had our interests at heart.  When Bush 43 became President I also thought we could trust him to do what’s right for us.  Then came Gulf War II started to rid this country of Saddam Hussein’s use of his (we now know) fictional Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).  Somebody lied about WMD, thousands of US military and civilians have died because of it and no one has gone to jail because of it.  He refuses to allow the heads of Congressional Committees to review documents they deem necessary for their oversight of the Administrative Branch of Government; these guys have the highest of security clearances for God’s sake.  He has failed to secure our borders, increasing the chance of terrorist attacks on United States soil, and allowing perhaps up to 20 million undocumented people to live in this country.  He created the Department of Homeland Security which increasingly violates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which violates the privacy of the U.S. public.  Equally importantly, he took a balanced budget Government to one 9.4 trillion in the red ink.

And then we have the House of Representatives and the Senate.  Is there anyone in the United States who believes that there are Congressmen or Senators who are not on the take, whether it be from lobbyists or private citizens?  I’m not even going to list any of their involvements; you can read as well as I, and are probably already aware of their violations of their office.  Is there anyone in the United States who believes there are Congressmen and Senators who will not do anything it takes to get elected and then to stay elected?  They listen to their constituents? Yes, probably, especially the ones who can do something for them.  They keep their promises? No. They support the constitution and the bill of rights? From what I read they only support those parts that they can bend to support their aims.

I know, I know, I must have been awfully naïve to have ever believed any elected official would ever put our interests over his or hers; I no longer believe that.  Now, I think we can't trust any of them, any of the time.

 Actually, I don't even know why I bothered to write this because nothing we write, say, or do, makes any difference.  And guess what, this rant hasn’t even made me feel better.

 
More later (there always more, later not so much)