Monday, October 3, 2016

Political Parties

I have decided I cannot be a member of either the Democrat or Republican party, neither truly fights for the ethics and values embodied in the Constitution of the United States. Both major parties are more interested in maintaining power than uniting under the shared vision laid out for us in the Constitution.
The Democrats want to take my economic freedom by forcing me to pay for other people's existence and forcing me to buy goods and services I neither want or need. They believe they know better than I how I should think and live my life. This is in direct contradiction to the vision our founder's shared when this country was founded and our constitution enacted. They wish to curtail free speech through the enacting of speech codes and prosecuting individuals (including clergy) for preaching their faith when it conflicts with ideas which Democrats and their constituent special interests hold true. They wish to force individuals to perform services which contradict their faith or face civil penalties (including their loss of a private business) or criminal prosecution. Yet they do not seem to uphold the rule of law which is so necessary to ensuring everyone is equal before the bar of justice. In my mind, the rule of law is the most precious and necessary principle embodied in our Constitution. They expanded the expansion of the use of Executive Orders by trying to legislate without going through Congress as the Constitution demands; this is something dictators or communists do, not constitutional republics.
The Republicans seem to believe we have no responsibility to our fellow man and business should determine national political and economic policy. They are also willing to compromise the Constitution when it suits their needs. Though closest of the two (2) major parties to my own personal ideology, they will sacrifice their own ethics and betray those which put them into office, to maintain their own agenda and power. They compromised our civil liberties with the National Security Agency and other national intelligence assets to monitor all communications in the United States in what I continue to believe is a violation of our Fourth Amendment rights. 
Under President George W. Bush they expanded the use of Executive Orders to get around having to take things before Congress and have thorny issues debated in front of the American people. Their leadership is more afraid of the opposite party instead of their constituents as evidenced by their passing legislation which is at odds with the policies they were elected to put into place. They have no issue or ethical principle which they will not compromise.
Both parties believe in globalism and the United States being the world's policeman, enforcing its will on the rest of the world. This is something which has led to nothing but loss of jobs at home, the auto and steel industry being but two (2) examples; you could through in the textile industry and you see the loss of American jobs in each of these industries with no new jobs in other industries to ensure our citizens have lucrative replacement employment.
The first priority for all our elected and unelected leadership should be the protection of American citizens; not multinational conglomerates, rather ordinary citizens. The American citizen needs government to ensure an environment where they have the ability and equal opportunity (which doesn't mean equal results) to achieve their goals and dreams. Neither party does this anymore; if they ever did.
We have no right to force our will on other countries of the world. We should have allies and partners but never compromise our sovereignty or ethics. We have done all of this by cozying up to countries which restricted freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of religion. Both major political parties no longer fight for the constitution of the United States, as they are required when they take their oath of office, they are about accumulating power and wealth for themselves instead of protecting the interests of those they are elected to represent.

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