At any given moment, there are usually only a handful of “lawmakers” from the President on down, who enter politics out of a sense of calling and a desire to restore Constitutional imperatives, and operate government responsibly and efficiently. But OF COURSE, they ALL employ that rhetoric going in, and it always gets highly modified soon enough, as the “realities” of going along in order to get along takes hold.
In the case of someone like LBJ,he, along with countless others before and after him, like Bill Clinton, ride into Power on the tried and true narrative that they’re men of the people, poor boys made good through pluck and determination,and the conviction that they are on the right and noble side of every issue. With the help of the MSM (even before it was called thie MSM) that message worked, as it was spread and disseminated out to the American electorate, worked sufficiently to get them elected and re-elected. On the “other side” of the political aisle, people like GHW and GW Bush are sold to us on The equally spurious premise that, because they are ALREADY rich, they don’t “have to” use elected office as a means of enriching themselves — this, presumably frees them up to concentrate on larger, more earth-shaking transformations, like a replay of Woodrow Wilson’s century-old plan to “make the world safe for Democracy”..We know by now how tragically wrong and wasteful virtually ALL goveernment policies ,domestically and globally, are, and how we PAY for these games that are played on the exclusive playground by the men we’ve given these jobs to. It’s the biggest racket going, as the “unsophisticated” Man on he Street has known for the past hundred years. The Political Elites have a vested interest in convincing us that ALL problems have political solutions, so they keep creating problems and polarizing, rather than uniting us.Though, THAT TOO, has become part of their rhetoric-—what was the overriding objective of he Obama Presidency, other than “uniting” us into a higher collectve project, which immediately devolved into the message to “Roll Over and Submit” to our AGENDA-—after all,51% of you voted for it!
We might as well get used to looking at the White House and Congress as the splendid mansions we pay for, to house our new Colonial Masters. For those few hundred million of us not fortunate enough to have found a way to situate ourselves somewhere on either. of their respective bandwagons, we will never have a way of benefiting from any gratuities that flow to us, courtesy of our gratuities,by way of taxes,that relentlessly flow to THEM. With American Politics, every election cycle asks us to “Change Partners and Dance”, to use the title of that old song. And, to invoke the title of an old movie “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”
Well said.