SITREP: American Politic - Past, Present, Future

Lately most everyone in the media has been focusing on the Obama-Hillary political contest. In the case of the GOP, it has been, in the eyes of the media, not the public, a given that Senator John McCain is the winner on the political right contest. In the LA Times blog section by Andrew Malcolm …

Not a good day for Rep. Ron Paul. Everybody was watching the overwhelming of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama by New York Sen. Hillary Clinton on the ongoing Democratic side of the partisan primary struggles in West Virginia … But over on the Republican primary battlefield with 98% of the votes counted, the 72-year-old [Ron] Paul was overwhelmed by the presumptive GOP nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona. Paul gathered in only 5% of the vote, a lousy 5,812 ballots. … Paul even got thumped by ex-Gov. Mike Huckabee, who isn’t running anymore. … Former Gov. Mitt Romney, another GOP also-ran, also came close to nipping Paul … Rudy Giuliani – remember him, the former New York mayor? – received 2%, or 2,777 votes. So Paul beat him again. Paul also beat Alan Keyes, who in 2004 did such an impressive job as the Republican candidate of terminating the political career of that up-and-comer named Obama in the Illinois U.S. Senate race. Keyes got 1,389 West Virginia votes, 1%. … Which, according to The Ticket’s calculations, means McCain won. But as Paul’s vocal supporters are fond of pointing out, it’s not about winning the Republican nomination. It’s about something else, …

 

The Democrats are being focused upon because early on in the primary race, the most viable, the most qualified and the most experienced – as well as best voting records have long gone before the final gate. Beginning with Fred Thompson’s late start, which the media and political pundits held against him without realizing his nature and what he did in Congress – never jumping to any decision until thought out and investigating the impact, both short- and long-term, when it came to voting for or against proposed legislation. Thus, once in the race for top dog in the political primary contest, this meant he was ideologically ready. But this was not portrayed as such by the mainstream media, who has too much influence upon who remains and who doesn’t before even the people decide at each state’s voting booths. McCain has been the darling of the left-focused mainstream media since he betrayed his conservative constituents, much like GW Bush soon after his first term’s inauguration.   Therefore, he is not trusted among the grass root conservatives – the main silent majority that everyone is whispering about. The loud-mouth left is what prevails, using the media as their mouthpiece for the present state of propaganda that runs amuck within the political party that was once declared to be representative of blue-collar, regular home folks of the FDR era. It has all progressed into democratic-socialist progression, and thus the reason why the “new” democrats call themselves “Progressives”. This is the Clinton family and what has become of the Kennedy political family after John and Bobby’s deaths. Progression should be a positive word and originally meant to be so – but the Left has a knack of taking standard terminology and using it for their special brand of political and social ideology to sway people, despite its roots stemming from Marxism, socialism and even from the Communist Manifesto rule book. Unfortunately, most of the times, all they have are negative and untrustworthy words – with little action as to addressing the actual problem or issue being presented. This is the foundation of what the Democratic Party has become, and where the Republican Party is heading thanks to the Bush political family and Senator McCain following a close second in the area of political hypocrisy. The problem with the two main political entities in America is that they have been infiltrated not by people with “new” ideas, but hidden agendas based upon old Bolshevik ideology. Nothing new and the result will end the same if the follow this particular ideological path. Under that corrupt underlying political family - Senator Obama is merely a token.

And, the corruption of the GOP has also assisted the Democrats in regards to Congress -

…a Democrat won a Louisiana House seat that had been occupied by Republicans for more than 30 years. And in early March, in an especially sweet win for the Democrats, they took over the district that retired former House Speaker Dennis Hastert had represented since the mid-1980s. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quickly trumpeted …

Ken R., Tennessee writes in his commentary:

…A two-party system is by its very nature polarizing, forcing voters to choose one or the other with no realistic alternatives in between. When the most partisan – and sometimes radical – wings of each party have taken over the nominating process, it makes the choices even more stark and difficult for many voters who have more moderate views.

While Ken Renner, former political speech writer for a Democrat in Tennessee (see Bio) – may see things from the left side of the political aisle, he nails the situation on the head because he has positioned himself as a centrist with “old school” Democratic ideology in mind when he states:

From where I sit, the biggest problem I see is that the two major parties have been taken over by their most partisan members. A two-party system is by its very nature polarizing, forcing voters to choose one or the other with no realistic alternatives in between. When the most partisan — and sometimes radical — wings of each party have taken over the nominating process, it makes the choices even more stark and difficult for many voters who have more moderate views.

And viable third parties, representing ideologies of American voters, are pushed to the side because of the corrupted power of those two main political entities and their counterpart media mouthpieces. In other words, third parties have difficulty not because they are sincere in what they stand for [Libertarian, Constitution Party, and to the extreme Left, the Green Party (of America) as examples] – but because of interference by the traditional main parties that have become corrupted over time, and despite this county’s belief that competition is good, refuses to allow it in political circles. Thus we have members from each party becoming independent, a status that seems to work better than belonging to a third party when it comes to the actions of the DNC and GOP and their mind set.

If you read my first two parts of American political history, the third yet to be published that begins just before the outbreak of the American Civil War, which created the carpetbaggers (that are still around today, such as Senator Hillary Clinton, for another example) – and on into the populist vote’s return from the Jacksonian period that created the economic Depression that no one remembers (1850s) and the fast disappearing Americans who remember the last Depression of the 1930s. Ken Renner states, excerpted from above transcribed commentary:

The deep partisan chasm that separates the two parties today wasn’t always present. We had a period of fairly moderate government and bipartisan cooperation for about 40 years from the late 1920s to the late 1960s. …

This phenomenon has been caused by the infiltration of foreign political ideologies, such as European socialism, Russian Bolshevik ideology, and plain, flat out communist mantra – from the Stalinist and Maoist movements of Asia. All conformed to fit the workings of American society and political nature, and at the same time changing it from the sidelines – a long process, but effective because it has been hardly noticed – presented as some “new” American way of thinking when it is based upon the old Marxism of the 1890s, created by a person who believed in world government, total equality, communal living under a false utopia dream. The world doesn’t work that way. There will always be someone who wants to be “top dog” over everybody and everything, joined in by his or her minions who want a piece of the action. This is what the Founders knew and tried to prevent by spending so much time looking at views from both sides – aristocratic and from the regular life of common folk – in order to develop the best system the world has ever seen; yet people in the 1960s and beyond decided to change it. Not that it needed drastic change (conforming with the modern times, but still retaining the gist of the Constitution) – but just to make a change. THAT is the change that Senator Obama will give and that is what his hidden agenda is. He represents the sacrificial lamb and at the same time the key to the new American politic – something that the Kennedy political family have had envisioned in which the Clintons in their zest for quick power and mesmerize the general American public has brought to the forefront faster through their sloppy politics, their corruptive nature and their out-right scandalous behavior beyond the concept that the rule of law applies to everyone. This phenomenon is not just peculiar to the Democratic Party, but as Ken stated – it has also crept into the GOP system thanks to the Bush political family and its minion counterpart – Senator John McCain. Anything or anyone with any form of true reformation plans will be ostracized, condemned and drummed out by public opinion via the tool of the mainstream media. That tool uses the Marxist, Stalinist tactic that “if a lie is told often enough and long enough – the people will eventually believe it to be truth and gospel.” [Not a direct quote].

Ken continues in his comment …

Then we had the counter-culture arise in the late 1960s amidst the polarizing Vietnam War, along with the scandal of Watergate that shook the faith of many Americans in their own government.

Ken left out the key factor of the era – the assassination of JFK, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Those incidences proved to be a faster change in the mind of society than Vietnam War (events that provided a major impact on American views) or otherwise. Camelot was in Washington DC during the presidential days of John F. Kennedy Jr., and he was King Arthur, with Guinevere represented by Jacqueline Kennedy. The unofficial “Queen” of America ranked as the most elegant and educated of the First Ladies, who married Onassis in order to escape the realities of the political world she once belonged to, as well as the relentless press that continued to harass her and bring back those days to her personal memories when her husband was literally murdered in her presence. Aristotle Socrates Onassis represented the wealth of that era and even his biography matched the American dream of rising from poverty to becoming one of the richest men in the world. It was that money that afforded Jacqueline the security and privacy she so needed in her later years and until her death.

The nation and American tradition was JFK’s purpose, just as John was Jacqueline’s focus on life. John not only portrayed as a man who cared about his nation and truly concerned about its citizens – he showed it through his actions. And he was not hesitant in protecting America against foreign power infiltration or attack as demonstrated in a time when a Cold War was going on. Sometimes this would be internationally tense, but because he did not back down, the powers of that time DID back down because they knew the results of any counter action would be fatal to them and the people of the Soviet Union from the Missiles of October. If they agreed upon anything at the time, this was certainly the main issue.

Of course, this was also the era of the Cold War and the CIA was given more power than it should have received because of the circumstances – this also resulted in misrepresentative foreign policy, which would create new and dangerous enemies of free nations around the world – America being the prime target because of its prime exercise in choosing despots instead of true national reformers, just because they professed to be the enemy of our enemies. In the long term, this was a bad policy. This is because of the advent of the age where compliance instead of defiance has been enacted. It might have worked after World War II in order to prevent major conflicts beyond the Korean War, but as the Vietnam War pointed out – America could not get involved with civil war between peoples who were also backed up by communists of the old Soviet Union and the sleeping communist giant – China. In effect, the people in charge did not see this, for if they did, they would have, as General MacArthur put it:

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

And, as is relevant today, in his later years, General MacArthur stated the reality of what was occurring during the period of the Cold War, which first anesthetized the American public to the point of not caring to radical Left demonstrating against the very defense mechanism that kept World War III at bay …

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

So, when a real emergency and internal threat occurs – patriotism has become so watered down that it appears from what is represented by the Leftist few in American who seem to speak for the “silent majority” that no longer can remain “silent” and meanwhile, those that still believe in the American dream, the American tradition, and the American’s underlying purpose in its quest to fulfill that foreign policy developed that would embrace and assist any nation or people of a nation that would desire to be a free nation – For the People and By the People …

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

And they must bear the self-afflicted guilt that the Leftist society places upon them, whether we are talking about the Vietnam War or the present situation in Iraq.

And in regard to present day leadership in the Pentagon …

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

And the present day command is like the American Left Politic – they point fingers everywhere except amongst themselves and pointed toward themselves – the true problem. It is this leadership that the troop depends upon to make the decisions required for victory.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

And yet, the modern troop is more educated, more informed, and has the technological capability to report directly from the front via the Internet and through the medium known as the blog. This is both a useful tool and can also be used by the enemy for which we have declared war upon.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthur [1880-1964]

However, one must fit the diplomatic foreign ideology to the period and the time in history – and that is essential – without undoing or changing the foundation (if a good one like the American Constitution) so meticulously and carefully thought out and implemented. In other words, when it is said that the Constitution is flexible, it means flexible to the times – not deterring from its original intention, using the Second Amendment as an example and pointing also to the First Amendment where modern day media has taken advantage of the “power of the press” – to the level of endangering the very society/nation they claim to protect. As Ken writes …

Neither party is guiltless in these developments that have tended to divide Americans.[1] My point isn’t to point fingers of blame but simply to note that the parties have drifted further to the extremes, which I think most would agree has not helped America meet the challenges and solve the problems it faces. What we need today is something to replace that force once exerted by liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats within their own parties to moderate the views of the most radical and partisan within their midst. What we need is a third, centrist party.

Which would counteract – possibly beginning with an independent candidate for President in 2008 – or one that operates outside the mainstream politic with intentions to reform the old – like Ron Paul.

If you want the same old politics and continued degeneration of American political ideology and eventual dilution of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights being legislated away (see McCain-Feingold and Warner-Lieberman bills as an example) – the old main parties must be hit hard by the American citizen voter. Change CANNOT occur if we keep voting for the same people from the same political circles – as Ken points out.

Once upon a time in America, Democrats and Republicans were aggressive in their campaigning – but knew that they must act like and become statesmen and stateswomen while they were in office and work together for one purpose – America and its people, and that includes ALL Americans, not just special interest groups and the elements of society that is jockeying to have more rights than others just because they are a minority. Equality means equal – and with policies like Affirmative Action on one spectrum and parts of society retaining the old prejudices – it has truly, as Ken points out, divided this nation as decisively and dangerously as when America was forced to enact a civil war that lasted from 1860 to 1865.

And briefly, without changing subjects midstream, brings us to the Iraq problem, mostly developed because of policy set by the Clinton and Bush administrations – clearly a bad example or rather a good example of how the American politic has degenerated along with how we deal with the rest of the world. And the result is evident – we have lost respect. We either are too strong (in some eyes) but in reality we wait too long before we act. This is why pundits and commentators are constantly reminding the policy of JFK and Ronald Reagan – two men who knew when to become strong and counterattack (except in the case of the Bay of Pigs fiasco) or the Somalia mess (including an “error” in bombing the Chinese embassy, many people thinking – what were people doing on its rooftop in the middle of the night?) – as well as the argument over the Iraq situation. And here is the conclusion based upon reality:

1. Saddam Hussein could no longer be allowed to stir up further trouble in a troubled region, just as the leadership of Iran is today’s problem.
2. When reconstruction came about, President GW Bush miscalculated, demonstrating his dysfunction as what can be see in his domestic policy.
3. The political American Left is not getting off the hook pointing fingers at Bush – they are to blame for not supporting an action they had voted “Yes” to, regardless of whether the intelligence information being incorrect or not – Saddam had to go and be replaced with some form of Islamic democracy – which can be possible when looking at the formation of the Turkish Republic. (Not “moderate” Muslims because they have strong faith in Islam and are dedicated to its original intentions, but because they have chosen to stay away from, to this point in history, Islamic fundamentalism. In other words, their separation of Church (religion or Mosque) and State concept, which may turn if we are not careful with our foreign policy in that respect.
4. Congress declared war against terrorism, organized entities that promote terrorism, heads of state that condone or support terrorism directly or indirectly – and whether they are Democrat or Republican – the war must be seen through to its victory. The alternative is unthinkable.

Leaving politics out of it and just looking at GW Bush policies, we find that he did not use our support as leverage to ensure that the new government policed itself and didn’t become what Saddam Hussein established or join the fundamentalist counterpart that is now running the state of Iran. This is what history is going to say about GW Bush, along with the details of his actions and inactions – as well as showing that he moved from popularity to being the most unpopular (one of the most) presidents in United States history. It has been his own doing or un-doing because of his views on what is partisan and what is not and what is best for the American people as a whole. AS Ken states – both political party leadership is behind in the policy curve that meets what is present as issues today. In other words - we didn’t threaten to pull out because of Iraq’s new government’s inability to operate as a democracy under a constitution, which in turn does not counter against the Islamic religion. Difficult task? Yes. Impossible? No. It worked in Turkey, a special era like the establishment of America, where a despot turned the new nation into a democratic Republic with the aid of its military and its loyalty. It is changing today because the nation is having second thoughts about turning against fellow Muslims - despite the fact that it was the fundamentalists who turned against followers of true Mohammedan and Islamic basic original belief. Much of the problem is those that do not understand the culture or the concept of the original religion as established by its founder. Much like what occurred in the Middle Ages in Christendom when the Church became too powerful, and thus corrupted. Far off from the original person whose foundation was set before his death - Jesus of Nazareth. I would like to discuss and write about this in a future posting describing both Christianity and Islam through its history and what has happened to both, specifically directed toward fundamentalist or those who chose the violent side of religious life and its proclaimed supremacies.

But I digress …

In Conclusion - This means that none of the three candidates being pushed by the media in the forefront of news – Clinton, Obama or McCain – are eligible or more importantly should be discounted as being our next president.

So who is? Someone with congressional leadership and a good voting record – someone that can be represented by the people, not a political body of money-hungry and fund-eating old guard, DNC or GOP. This means a change so drastic against the main American politic that it forces reform – something that will shake the foundation and ostracize the present political elite out of the limelight. Who are these people? Who are these possible candidates?

They are among us. They exist. And unfortunately they are part of the “silent majority” who still believe in America, the way it was Founded and remain to be, those who believe we can still be a powerful nation, but still have the desire to extend a helping hand to those who ask and who truly want a free nation within their established state. They are out there. They do not have to be in their 60s or 70s nor do they have to be younger than 40. They do not have to have ten years of established politics, but something like a voting record to prove their constituency on what they believe to be the solving of issues at hand. They do not have to even be an affiliated or established member of a body politic – political party.

They just have to have character, know the Constitution, understand the principles of the Federalist Papers and believe that ALL Americans should be represented by the President of the United States and leave the district and state matters up to the representatives they choose to sit in Congress.

This is the gist of America – this is the person we need and should want.

It should be required in every civic and political science class of instruction, not indoctrination, to read and study the Federalist Papers. Just as important as studying the counterproductive political types such as Marxism, socialism, communism and fascism. Leaving out information that is against one’s ideology does not represent knowledge, but instead keeps knowledge at bay for the very reason that the prescribed ideology may be threatened. This is the way classes are taught today in America’s “higher educational” facilities, universities and colleges too frequently and has been accepted to be the norm. Discussion is important in order for a student to realize just what is the best system available and how to retain and protect it from corruption.

Knowledge is power, and the tool is education - not indoctrination.
Keith A. Lehman

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[1] As we should have found – division is the prime tool of the socialist-communist-fascist element, also of the Islamic fundamental movement that has brought about hate and destruction today and threatens the free nations who have extended hands in good faith to join the democratic movement regardless of religion. However, when religious ideology promotes hatred and mass murder – there must be a line drawn, and this has been caused what the American Founders foresaw as a problem – separating State from the organized Church. In order for the Islamic nations to retain both their original religious entity and continue to survive in the 21^st century – it must remove the Caliphate and replace it with a government based on democracy that graces the peaceful aspects of Islam – its original intentions to get along with the “People of the Book” without straying from Islamic principles – and without violence and hatred.

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