Disgust w/ Congress-Bush = Hope for Freedom ?
You won't hear this from the mainstream press, but this peice from the League of the South Blog is more proof that :
a) Americans may be more ready for a multi-party system
b) A Candidate like Ron Paul might do extremely well
c) Governing a multi-cultural, huge continental nation might well be impossible & the League of the South might well be onto something .
http://leagueofthesouth.net/rebellion/index.php/site/poll_congress_approval_same_as_bush/
Poll: Congress’ Approval Same As BushFriday, May 11, 2007
Clowns to the left of me—jokers to the right—what’s a voter to do? Looks like everyone in DC is corrupt as well as incompetent:
People think the Democratic-led Congress is doing just as dreary a job as President Bush, following four months of bitter political standoffs that have seen little progress on Iraq and a host of domestic issues.
Maybe—just maybe—both Democrats and Republicans can’t agree on action on the issues that are important to voters because the country has just become too big to manage. DC is so locked up in bureaucracy, and so focused on its own power and its own agenda that it’s impossible to represent the interests of 300,000,000 people. Could be that the only way out is to return to basics—the basics, that is, of what this country was founded on. No, not egalitarianism—that’s from the bloody French and even bloodier Russian and Chinese revolutions—but to the core American principle of the sovereignty of the people, of the right to “to dissolve the political bands which have connected them” and “ institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” What a nice ring those words have. Instead of repeating the same thing, of electing new would-be saviors to take the levers of power in faraway DC and save us, maybe it’s time we started saving ourselves. Maybe these folks have the right idea. And these.
It’s just a matter of time before things get so desperate that the only option will be to solve the problem rather than hoping it’ll solve itself.
Posted by Mike Tuggle on 05/11 at 08:07 AM
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