Whose government is this anyway?

I am no different from any other conservative who feel our government
must be honorable, honest, have enormous integrity, and judicious in
its decisions. Every conservative I know works toward those ends –
always have. We vote that way. We teach our children that way. We
counsel our friends that way. We make decisions that way. We live by
that code.

But NEVER, and I stress that word, NEVER has my involvement had a
single effect on “MY GOVERNMENT” officials. I’m a big gal, but a mere
spot of dust in politicians’ eyes, another sucker to be plucked to
accomplish that politician’s needs and desires. When I ask the
question, “What more can we possibly do to get DC to hear us?”, I am
told I can vote. Duh!!!! Of course I can vote – and my vote carries as
much authority as does every one else’s – NONE.

That brings me to the ballot box. According to most Americans the
ballot box assures us that WE are in charge. What makes people say
that? Habit? No real answer? Knowing full well that our politicians
are corrupt as are the people who work for them and pick up their
messes, I really wish someone would explain in detail exactly how MY
voting alters anything when everyone knows it may be offset by 100
illegal votes…..or 10,000 illegal votes. And when every legal vote is
counted, does everyone assume the count has been legal? People who
count every cent of change for a $1 bill TRUST the count in any election
for people who will dictate to us their entire time in service. This
reminds me of insanity more than it does a Constitutional government.

Alec Bruce of the Atlantic Business Magazine of Canada recently wrote this:

“A democracy whose government preys on the fears of the majority as
readily as it embraces its own narrow interests is no democracy at all;
it is, by ambition and practice, an elected oligarchy. And over the
years, Canada has come closer to that which its traditions and civic
sensibilities once utterly despised: a nation ruled by smug,
self-satisfied cohorts whose coarse manipulation of facts and rational
argument undermines intelligent debate and resists effective political
opposition.