Electoral Politics, Congress and National Policy-Part 1
Our two party, ideology-based electoral political system has become a dead albatross that hangs around the neck of every citizen of The United States of America.
Our dead albatross electoral political system hangs around the neck of every elected official of every level of government throughout The United States.
There is no constructive role that any political party of any kind could possibly fulfill anywhere in Washington, DC.
There is certainly no constructive purpose that the influence of the short term demands of partisan and structural electoral politics could possibly fulfill in the governmental and public policy decision making process in The Congress of The United States or in the policy making decision process of any policy making body in any level of government in the nation.
We and our country need and absolutely must have a congress that actually is and functions as The Congress of the United States of America: A national institution whose members can consider, discuss, debate and legislate governmental and public policies that are predicated on each policy being in the long term best interests of The United States as an entire nation and in the long term best interests of the citizens of The United States as an entire society.
We must have a Congress whose members can back off, look at the big picture, think nationally and long term and act accordingly by crafting and passing policy legislation for this nation as an entire nation.
A Congress whose decision making process is derived from and then is driven by the short term demands of partisan and structural electoral politics cannot possibly be the Congress that we need and must have.
We must have a Congress whose members can put the process of governance of the nation for the people from Washington at the top of a list of national priorities and keep it there where it belongs and where Article I of our Constitution strongly implies that it will be.
A Congress that functions as a congregation of local and state politicians each of whom is using his or her position in Congress as a stage from which to run for re-election cannot possibly be the Congress that we and our country must have.
A Congress that looks at a political map of this nation and sees just the divided, segmented, and fragmented imaginary nation that is depicted by that political map and legislates policies for that political-map nation cannot possibly be a Congress that can legislate good and workable policies for a nation that actually functions as one nation undivided with each part of the nation connected to, dependent upon, interdependent with and dynamically interactive with all of the nation’s other parts.
We must have a Congress whose members can remove the politics of government in Washington from the top of their priority list where it is today and throw it back on the garbage pile that it was pulled out of sometime in the past 220 years and leave it there where it has always belonged.
And, finally, I would ask just one thing of the member of The House and the two Senators who represent me in Congress. I would ask that they go to Washington and occupy the jointly owned Constitutional property of the people who live in my House district and in my state; the three seats to which they have been elected by the constitutional owners of the seats: The people; and represent me by using their knowledge, their wisdom and judgment; and apply their talents, time and energy to doing the best they are capable of doing for my country.