America's Governmental System Does Not Work Optimally: The Rest Is Up To Us!

Clearly, 'the people' will have to solve America's problems themselves; if America's problems are ever to be solved at all; or for America to live up to its written creed.

Granted, America is not a  post-racial society.  However, a significant numbers of Americans, across all racial and ethnic lines; understand the need for the majority of us to continue to work together, in order to build a America that works; other than for private and corporate interests.

What we have been witnessing in real-time; is ostensibly a bought and sold dysfunctional government, that only works for an enclosed group of individuals, institutions and members of society, to include the rich and the powerful.

Which groups are creating the disruption, and preventing America from moving forward?  I would argue that the major culprits operate right out of Washington D.C., on Wall Street and Congress; also   in back rooms all across America  Clearly, the majority of America's citizen's do not make the rules, implement or enforce deliberate policies, that benefit a few instead of the majority of the American people.

The Fourth Branch of government, one that stealthily operates behind the scenes, is a powerful one that often remains in the background, but at the same time wields power; of the kind that impacts the rest of us; and the world has never seen.

I am always amazed over the fact that America's adult-citizens, have tolerated the kind of nonsense that is and has been coming from government along with their friends; and the fact that it has done so for so many years; now.  Last week's Supreme Court decision; 'that favors Citizen's United; has pretty-much sealed up the corruption deal, in favor of the cabal to include their friends.

The first thing that I was taught during my 7-year stint  in Washington D.C., was as follows:  Congress exempts itself from the rules.... that it makes for everyone else.  In other words:

Congress is above the laws and statutes that it makes and enforces for every other American; including the President of the United States, himself.

Simply consider the latest government shut-down; it was ostensibly engineered by Congress.  And in deference to all of the people who lost paychecks, were laid off; lost their homes; denied access to government institutions (even our children)  what did members of Congress do in the meantime?  Members of Congress played basketball downstairs in the gym, swam in the pool under the capitol;  bowled in the Congressional bowling alley; withdrew monies from their private credit union; dined on sumptuous cuisine... and behaved like a bunch of detached antinomialist mixed nuts!

Those turkeys permitted the nation to literally fall apart; some of them even encouraged it -- while at the same time they continued to stuff themselves with more largess; while never turning down their paychecks. Instead, they continued to cut deals for their lobbyist partners-in-crime, and for their corporate  friends!

And these are the people that we keep around, 90% of them being returned to office in order to do more damage, year after year and decade after decade.  Pretty soon they will catch up with the late Strom Thurmond and Jessie Helms; in the absence of term limits.  The damage that they did by favoring one group over another, needs to be undone; by the people.

America, more and more is 'a jungle'; one that favors 'Lions and Tigers in America's government; along with their corporate friends'.  And what will America's do about this inconvenient truth?  Answer:  They will simply go out and vote, hoping that voting alone will change things; instead of getting up and going to work themselves to rescue themselves, their children and if possible, 'the nation'; one that has been bought and sold to its highest bidders!

Solomon