by Cedric Mcclester

Created on: December 19, 2007   Last Updated: November 18, 2010

Without question, Americans are losing faith in government, and who can blame them? Political discourse has lost all civility today. Partisan interests are regularly put before the interests of the American people.  Opposing political views are castigated and demonize by all concerned.  Conservatives cast liberals as un-American.  Liberals paint Conservatives as extremist.  The Tea Party folks paint both as woefully inadequate, and  corporate interests trump everything.  Compounding the problem and adding fuel to the fire is the recent Supreme Court majority ruling that corporations have the same Constitutional rights as individuals.  They can therefore spend as much as they desire to promote the candidacy of their choice.  Politicians spend the majority of their time in office fundraising.  With this latest Supreme Court ruling, corporate interests will reign supreme, no pun intended.

In the larger scheme of things, we the American people are merely pawns in the political game.  We cast the votes that put the candidates in office and decide which political parties have hegemony.  This in no way insures that once in office they represent our interests, as opposed to the interests of their corporate masters.  We were almost faced with a second major economic depression  because the major banks and corporations were allowed to operate unchecked.  Gridlock defines a Congress that gets little done these days.  The Republican Party has become the party of no!  They march lockstep to the beat of their party’s leadership.  They are determined to bring about the president’s Waterloo by opposing anything and everything that he supports.  The American people be damned.  What do they know anyway?  Once megalomania sets in, what is best for the electorate is almost never factored in.  Democrats argue among themselves and self-divide into sub-categories - liberals and blue dogs, diametrically opposed.

Our president, the supposed leader of the free world, is thwarted at almost every turn.  His assumed mandate for change has been incessantly challenged by his opposition.  Dick Cheney, the former vice president in the failed Bush Administration, didn’t pay sufficient attention to the numerous threat warnings until after the September 11th attack, now inexplicably feels qualified and uniquely equipped to criticize the current president’s

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