Government By, For, And Of The Politicians

     As COMACTA has previously noted, we have replaced government by, for, and of the people with one that is by, for, and of the politicians, who are increasingly contemptuous of their constituents.  While there has always been corruption and incompetence, we are plunging to new depths throughout our city, state and nation. 

     It’s seen in New York City, for example, in the rejection of two referendums in which the people voted in favor of term limits by a billionaire mayor who “influenced” enough city council members to overturn the will of the voters. 

     We see traditional values of fair play and decency replaced by something far worse.  In Chicago, for example, former Obama chief of staff and current Mayor Rahm Emmanuel has invited leading anti-Semite and race-baiting bigot Louis Farrakhan to advise him on violence issues.

     The growing disdain for the citizenry on the national front was evident during the Senate interviews with President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan.  Ms. Kagan couldn’t bring herself to confirm that, in her opinion, Americans had “unalienable rights” as promised in our Declaration of Independence.  It was eventually followed by President Obama’s “You didn’t build that” comment about America’s small business owners, saying that those individual and family owners, many of whom labor for over 12 hours a day, don’t deserve credit for their efforts. 

     Increasingly, the concept of constitutional government is being replaced by thinly-veiled one man rule.  Cabinet responsibilities that are supposed to be held by individuals approved by the Senate are instead given to “Czars” answerable only to the President. We see the machinery of government being used not to establish justice, but to enhance the political power and policies of a White House that has made no secret of its disdain for the legislative process, using neo-fascist slogans such as “We Can’t Wait” as an excuse for unilaterally enacting policies and ignoring laws it doesn’t agree with. 

      We see the machinery of government being used to bully citizens into complying with a socialist view of government control that Americans never agreed to.