I saw this cartoon over at The Wandering Minstrel where Bob
noted that the cartoonist had indicted the Republicans as having been complicit
in the fiscal mess. I could not agree more, in fact I believe the Republicans
to have been complicit, with the Democrats, in almost everything that has degraded our
country during the terms of the past three presidents (Note, I said the terms of
the past three presidents not the past three presidential terms).
You really do have to hand it to the artist because he hit
it on the head as both Demoncrats and Repooblicans are responsible for the
fiscal tar pit in which we find ourselves. Thus, I am pretty much convinced
that come the next presidential election I will be voting for whomever is the
libertarian candidate without even considering my vote going to a Republican
even though I have voted Republican since my first vote many years ago. I have
come to the point that they have pushed me, and the rest of America, off of the
electoral cliff in their absolute disregard for their voting base. When we all hit bottom, if I can still stand - I will stand for a third party.
I have watched my rights and liberties dwindle under the
past three administrations as so called Republicans, in Congress, repeatedly
have bent over backwards to appease liberal presidents, the likes of Clinton,
Bush and Obama, in almost total disregard of our Constitution, of the will of
the majority of the people, and of any common sense at all. In Congress, it
seems they vote on their self-interests alone. It is not limited to Congress
alone. I have seen it on the local level too such as when the Republicans allowed
an extremely liberal, Bloomberg, to be their candidate for the mayoral race in
NYC. The Republicans have become Democrats and vice versa to the point they
have melded together as an ineffectual blob.
The so called two party system means nothing today because
they are merely a mirror image of one another - both full of money grubbing
bloodsuckers who get fat off of the rest of us while they foolishly have ceded
our economic strength to China and our military strength to China and to third
world countries such as Iran while we ignore our once stalwart allies. Members
of both parties have joined together and have diluted our rights and liberties
by continuously bowing to the desires of special interest groups and kooks
instead of uniting for the good of the United States of America. They have
allowed our greatest strength - unity - to disappear and to be replaced by
diversity. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand..' was never more true
than it is now. While the members of Congress, Republican and Democrat, appear
to continuously bicker, in the end they have repeatedly come together to
effectively weaken our once great strengths. Their type of unity is totally
undesirable for the nation. They have come together only in their effort to
destroy the United States of America and to strengthen government power over
the people instead of assuring their service to the people. They do so by way
of their avarice, their special concerns, their push for diversity instead of
unity, their desire to appease fringe groups, their desire to look good in the
eyes of a mudslinging media, their absolute lack of morality, their refusal to
stand on principle, their ineptness to govern effectively, their lack of
support for the Constitution, and their sheer arrogance by way of belief that
they are above those they govern. They have expertly divided the people of our
once great nation so much so that at this point we are pushed well past the
edge of the cliff and are flapping our arms ineffectively as we hope beyond
hope to suddenly sprout wings and once again soar like an eagle.
It is never going to happen under the two party system. They
are so much alike as to have become one. So, as I said above, I will not vote
for a Republican come the next presidential election. Since there was never any
hope of me voting for a Democrat, I find myself then looking to a third choice.
I truly consider the libertarian outlook as closer to that which will help
reunify us and make us strong again in that unity but have been reticent to vote for a libertarian
candidate because the likes of Ron Paul, who appears to be a kooky as they
come, has scared me off. Kook or not, he is not like most Republicans and
Democrats and that difference alone will be enough to make me vote for him
should he run again. I would rather see someone else take the reins of the
Libertarian party but it matters not whom they choose to run - the Democrats
and Republicans, as they now stand, do not deserve a single vote from anyone
who considers himself or herself a true American patriot. Should I be able to
vote in 2016, I will more than likely vote Libertarian. Should there be a
Libertarian candidate for Congress, on the ballot in 2014, I likely will vote
Libertarian then too. About the only way I will continue to vote Republican, as
I have in the past, would be only if an awful lot of folks in the Republican
party put on some brass balls and swing them mightily and effectively. Chances
are though, we will not be able to sprout those wings and we are going to crash
land first. We probably will not hold those elections as scheduled because, I
fear, either the government will have attained complete tyrannical power by
then or we will be involved in the midst of a violent revolution before either
election takes place. I pray I am wrong.
All the best,
Glenn B
