WAKE UP AMERICA

                                                      

The 2016 election process reveals the truth about the corruption and control that plagues our nation. The voice of the people disappears in the inconsistent delegate selection destined to propel our leadership into chaos. Did the system serve us effectively in past history?  Apparently so! The decline occurs when delegates, elected in the shadows, feel free to vote their personal views, or are distracted by favors offered by the candidate campaigns in a complicated system of LEGAL fraud.  Amazing how extreme this questionable practice is in our election process.  Both parties vigorously embrace this behavior.

As an elderly citizen who appreciates the freedom and prosperity this nation provides, I’m appalled at what the election process reveals.  I expect my vote to be counted toward the leader I choose.  How naive or ignorant have I been?  A gentleman from North Dakota declares the real truth. “The people are under the impression they elect the nominee at the polls.  Not so, the nominee is elected by delegates of the party at the convention.”  The Electoral College, a complicated process of delegate selection by state populace and congressional representation, determines the general election of President and Vice President, and may overrule the popular vote with unbound delegates. The Founding Fathers believed the Electoral College would protect from fraudulent elections and dictatorial behavior. Perhaps we have reached the era of allowing the people to be heard, and “we the people” must accept the consequences of our judgement.  Do we need the “elite ruling political hierarchy” to watch over us and make certain we choose the right (according to them) candidate for President?

America, a Constitutional Republic, rules by the power of leaders, elected by the citizens, according to Constitutional law. This system works if the delegates vote the wishes of the people they are supposed to represent.  However, the 2016 election reveals a decided difference with delegates not bound by the primary vote. Rules that have always been in place.  And this practice declines further by the Washington elite believing they are the “gods of the electorate” with the privilege of appointing a nominee for the general election in spite of what the people mandate.  If this isn’t enough, the parties’ elite assures victory for their candidate by supporting a system of super or special delegates that the people have NO PART in selecting.   In addition, a Rules Committee (the practice for 160 years in the Republican Party) decides on the rules for the convention AFTER the people have voted.  How flawed is our system?  Are we a nation of uninformed voters who find we are ignorant of the integral structure of our election process?

 Republics and Democracies have historically fallen from within by the decay in the system of law, the morality of the citizenry, and the reign of humanism.  Is America well on its way to imploding?

The 2016 election is unique with a leader rising who is different, rough on the edges, unacceptable to many, but willing to tackle the corruption and decline of Washington. Attracting many voters, he is opposed vehemently by the herd of politicians (with unacceptable past performance) living sumptuously on the taxpayers.  Stung with an outsider, the powerful fester with indignation. In my view, we the people must rise up and disenfranchise those who manipulate the rules so they can control the system, arranging the general election to protect the Ivory Tower in Washington.  Weak, faltering government creates the outsider candidates (in both parties). Then the same career politicians assume the privilege of censuring the candidates.

Here’s a solution to consider!  In this era of electronic communication and more educated electorate, let’s abandon the delegates, Electoral College, and the paid career politicians who drain the oxygen of the Constitutional Republic, and become a REAL DEMOCRACY with POPULAR VOTE giving the government to the people.  Let’s engage in a dialogue that will impose term limits on legislators thus eliminating the career politician who goes to Washington as an average citizen and becomes wealthy by falling in line with the corrupt system. We may make mistakes; we’ll live with them knowing the people made the decision - not some wealthy, greedy, group of elites whose only agenda is to remain powerful. Is it time to amend the Constitution?

America portrays a dismal future with the lack of wisdom, the decay of a humanistic educational system, and the hypocrisy of leaders that results in a frustrated uprising of the young.  How tragic, they unite to accept socialism or communism although historically these systems fail leading to a form of slavery.  We must wake up, become informed, demand accountability, abandon political correctness, and make guarding our freedom a personal agenda, or America, as we know it, will no longer exist.