We have a government that appears to be totally broken.  The citizens of the United States will quickly tell you that the party they oppose is responsible for the entire problem, but if you probe the issue a little you will discover most don’t believe the party they support is actively working for their benefit.

Breaking all this down begins to reveal a few truths about our government.  I won’t dwell on the executive branch.  I have written numerous articles about the corruption of the Obama executive branch.  Our government was designed as a divided government, separated responsibilities and separated powers.  It was, in a word, structured in a fashion that would prevent it from working smoothly.  The legislative branch was designed with two houses.   The structure was to make it difficult to pass laws.  The original concept put forth the idea that the House and Senate would be staffed with Citizen legislators.

The Supreme Court was the final and ultimate protection of Citizen rights. Constitutionally guaranteed rights were to be insured by the Justices, appointed for life and above politics.  The Chief Justices were to be the guardians of those rights bestowed on each of us by our creator at birth. 

It is expected that our freedoms would be attacked because they limit the government’s power over us.  It was assumed that our legislators, as citizens and not government employees would not pass laws that infringed on our freedoms.  Instead, we now have legislators who view themselves not as common citizens but as entitled officials in a position of authority that exempts them from the everyday limitations of the law. 

Information is now an invisible force that is being used and abused by all sides to influence political activities.  Modern computers using powerful software can locate obscure but embarrassing facts to influence individual behaviors.  The national media represents the tools used to disseminate little facts that tilt public opinion.   If you wish to involve your thought process in conspiracies, this should provide all the material you would need to right a library of great books and never even come close to changing the state of affairs in Washington.

Assigning the blame to someone in Washington DC is somewhat like picking up jello with your fingers.  It just makes a bigger mess. Look at Lois Lerner, the IRS employee at the center of the IRS scandal.  If you can’t hold any government employees accountable under the law, then how do you hold government accountable?  You change the leadership.

If the captain of a ship is asleep when his ship hits the rocks he looses his position as ship’s Captain.  Simply, the Captain failed to ensure the safety of his ship, crew, and contents.  Our legislators are a bit like the Captain of a ship on the rocks.  They are good people, well intentioned, well dressed, personable failures.  We hire them with our votes and they promise to protect and defend the constitution.  The protection of the Constitution is the first responsibility of each legislator and sworn employee of the government. 

I don’t care why our legislators have failed, only that they have failed.  Get rid of them.  We ask them, with our vote, to ensure that our Government will be here to protect the rights of our children and grandchildren.  If they cannot fulfill their responsibilities it does not matter how nice they are or how politely they ask for our vote, we should politely refuse to support them in the primary elections.  Do not give a second term to anyone that fails you.  Demand performance and reject excuses.  Demand that unconstitutional laws be repealed.  If it cannot be done at the ballot box for federal elections, press your state legislators to participate in a national constitutional convention.  A state called national convention is the method the Founding Fathers provided for states to limit the power of the federal government.  If Washington doesn’t want to listen to the citizens of the country, it is time to ring the bell of freedom a little louder.