MUCH ADO ABOUT NEXT TO NOTHING!

MUCH ADO ABOUT NEXT TO NOTHING!

(USA-TODAY, Nanaho Sawano)

(Julie B. Outside the Beltway)

(Scary Things, Frazer Chronicle)

 

American royalty does exist in our country today, yes it does, I saw it on the front page today of the USA-TODAY. It was the I HAVE A DREAM, 50 YEARS LATER, and the THREE PRESIDENTS ONE DREAM article, you couldn’t have missed it, unless you live out in the giggle weeds with absolutely no access to the printed media. You’d also have to be without power so you wouldn’t have saw it, or heard it, in which case you couldn’t access me…..so why am I trying to talk to you anyways!

 

For those in the know, with 21^st century attributes like running water, electricity at your finger-tips, a computer, tablet and a smidgeon of interest, this information, opinion and a nudging to get involved and become a bit more informed…..is for you. Even if you disagree with me and my opinion…..down at the end of the day, you will have to admit that you are better informed, it’s what a differing of opinions or thoughts do.

 

I took one look at the picture that was splattered across the front page of the USA-TODAY, and I thought I was magically transported to mid-evil times, back to England where pomp, self-importance, and ceremonial splendor with the royals and their subjects was a common event. I had to pinch myself, and ran and looked in the mirror to enforce my thinking that I actually was a member of the 21^st century.

 

But when I came back into my reading room…..the porcelain throne, there was two former presidents, the current president, and the first lady making their way down the steps in front of the Lincoln Memorial. They each were celebrating the famous Martin Luther King I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH. I can think of no other eloquence, no other meaningful, and a speech that was right on, really in the history of mankind. Martin Luther King was truly a remarkable man, a man for his times, and I must declare that I was privileged to live during his time…..and to be old enough to hear and to understand his dissertations.

 

King did not live as royalty, nor do those people around him, King is what I would call an everyman, he related to the common as well as the aristocrat. And he sure as hell wasn’t going to live for the rest of his life like our former presidents do today.

 

A QUESTION OF POWER AND PRESTIGE

Maybe it’s just me, but from Ronald Reagan on, the American presidents have all seemed to be completely out of touch with what is going on in their own country with regards to employment, living conditions, and have a completely flawed image of their constituents which of course is us.

 

Some in the United States view the U.S. presidency as a sort of monarchy, and as such should accord all the pomp and pageantry connected with the term. I don’t know about you, but I have no interest in the office of the Presidency being the supreme authority on anything. I like the three branches of our government, the executive branch, and the legislative and judicial. It is supposed to afford us checks and balances type of governance, and mostly it has.

 

Again I’ll say it, as I’ve stated before, for the life of me I do not understand the thirst that most of our politicians seem to have for power, prestige and authority…..it has to be an illness. I mean who in their right mind would want secret service people breathing down your neck at every turn…..their perception of privacy isn’t anywhere near what I would call privacy…..and please do not cite that bull-crap about service to country, it’s tired, isn’t true, and frankly kind of outdated now that we’re living in the 21^st century.

 

I think that at the end of the day, many more Americans want to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave. They want little to do with royalty or monarchies, or the pomp and the other crap that comes along with the idea.

 

It’s bad enough right now, our political leaders…..who we elect and are paid for by our taxation actually work for us…..but they don’t see it that way, or they’ve forgotten how our system is supposed to be operated! 

 

These people that want to change the office of the presidency use terms like head of state, and head executive, like it’s kind of a word game, or a see and tell debate. It is neither, pretty much because people aren’t pawns on a chess board.  We are breathing, loving, working pieces of flesh, bone; we have goals, ideas, wishes and hopes, and need to be dealt with dignity and respect.

 

OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY

I’ve traveled the Washington Beltway on several occasions, and I’ll be the first to concur that its size and its elaborate engineering features are breathtaking. It’s little wonder that people who travel the Washington Beltway on a daily basis can probably maneuver through anything.

 

I was talking about the traffic U.S. 95, and U.S. 495, but the same analogy can be used to depict our political leaders in Washington. For whatever reason, whether it is a childhood malady, or parental abuse, a beat-down by the playground or school bullies, or getting your butt hazed in college, many politicians feel the need of protection from the everyday drags of normal life.

 

Lost in all the shuffle is one little fact of life…..for everybody, in the end, the masses rule, now you know the reason behind those little ticks or nervous twitches that many of our politicians display during their political lives. They wonder when the other shoe is going to drop, as in election defeat.

 

Another thing that is lost in the shuffle of life on the Beltway, and Capital Hill is the reason that these elected officials are where they are. They are where they are so that they can be ready to serve, ya, that’s right, they went to Washington for one reason and one reason only…..to SERVE us. They aren’t above the law, or us…..and they are answerable to us. I can understand their trepidation regarding this fact, but none-the-less it is a fact of their political life.

 

There’s not supposed to be campaigning for another term, no party line rhetoric, no trumpeting the values of one party over the other, and absolutely no political grid-lock. What is supposed to happen is that the job of government is supposed to get done…..not what necessarily might be good for one party or the other…..but for the people of the United States.

 

We American’s are the ones that are outside the Beltway, and I think most of us have no interest in being on the inside. The air there is too thick with the vial stench of politics gone bad, of politics that are way to self serving. Partisanship can be a good thing, like those who posses partisanship, and are ready to fight to the death for an ideal or belief.

 

However on the floors of our government, partisanship has little reason for a presence at the end of the day, it’s really an either or, it’s a black or white issue…..is it good for the nation (as a whole)? Its how a democratic government has to operate…..otherwise it is something other than a democracy.

 

 

So in the end a vote needs to be taken on how many of our politicians are truly Americans that are dedicated to upholding the ideals of what our constitution has to say, and also to listen to the voice of the people…..who in turn must stay informed upon the topics of the day. Well once again I’ve taken away the confusion of our lives, and laid out a fool proof plan for success.

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!