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November
13, 2006 If the
elections held in the United States in November, 2006, had been presidential,
there is little doubt that the country would now be looking at an incoming
administration run by a Democratic Party president. Instead, the public
voted in enough Democrats to speak its mind and hand control of the House
of Representatives and the United States Senate to the Democrats, thus
forcing an arrogant, stubborn president to replace his Secretary of Defense
with someone who appears to be more moderate. It is possible that
such an outcome was the only route left if America is to retain the appearance
of having two modes of thought expressed by a two party political system.
The Republican National Committee knew this, the president knew it and
so did the Pentagon officials. There is no exit strategy from another
quagmire "war" on either side, but the expression of discontent by the
popular vote gives the appearance that change is in the wind. There is
change in the wind, but it may not be what the American people felt they
were voting to obtain. A new balance
of power in the House and Senate will permit the US to develop an exit
strategy from Iraq, which has proved to be a lost cause in the midst of
its own civil war and inability to handle a democratic form of government.
The same may be true of Afghanistan. The American public, tired
of seeing American lives wasted on a no-cause conflict of cultures, gave
the government a save-face way out by changing the guard to the more "liberal"
side of a political structure in which the terms liberal, conservative,
moderate, centrist and right-wing have little to no meaning. A cursory
reading of the speeches made by Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy
make them sound like right-wing patriots compared to today's so-called
"neo-cons." While the
war of words continues in the arena of rhetoric, look at the United States
as a whole: *
American jobs are still being lost by the thousands as industry downsizes
or moves overseas; *
America's fiscal condition appears terminally ill, with trillions in debt
being reserved for another Great Depression or a selloff of American resources
to foreign powers to operate with greater efficiency; *
The borders are still wide open to whoever wishes to cross; *
Morality is at an all-time low, having taken a forty-five year tumble
since 1961; *
Every Executive Order signed by President Bush is still in effect and
available for use; *
Political correctness and its companion, hypocrisy, still stalk the city
streets laden with snoop cameras; *
Free speech and the remainder of the Bill of Rights appear to have been
given a mortal blow with no chance of recovery or survival; *
The Constitution is still regarded by most courts, including the Supreme
Court, as an historic piece of paper; *
Social Security for the elderly is still a mythical lockbox that the nation
could not afford before the Iraq incursion and claims are always made
that the country cannot afford its elderly while adding non-Americans
to the benefit rolls; *
Hundreds of millions are committed to the federalized education of students
from pre-kindergarten to the colleges where education now demands loans
that would buy a new house, yet we have some of the least educated graduates
in the world who have no idea how to think for themselves unless taught
at home; *
Freedom has been minimalized to the point where most Americans would rather
trade all their freedoms for what they deem to be "security" and security
can be guaranteed by no person or government, as anything from asteroids
to weather can destroy human lives in a matter of minutes. *
The sanctity of life is in total disregard except where convenient for
media exploitation on behalf of some agenda where public outrage is needed
for a few days. And that
is a very short list of only the most obvious. America has become
a nation where Americans cannot afford to live, other nations are being
sought by those who wish to find a place where retirement dollars will
buy both food and medicine, not more bureaucratic red tape. So what
did the election accomplish? The appearance that the will of the
people has been accomplished, a new era is beginning, America will build
back from the Bush years, and the people still have power. That is precisely
what anyone could have predicted, given the irritation over the Iraq war
and the Bush administration for the past six years. Is it realistic
to believe that America will return to the nation it was in the 1950's,
when government intervention in private lives (right down to your cholesterol
level, flu shot or your choice to smoke a ground up leaf) would have caused
a genuine revolt among the people? Hardly. Is it reasonable
to believe that morality will improve, among both the unchurched and leaders
of religious bodies? Not really, when money, power, sex and self-gratification
are the Baals that line the halls of America from school to church to
political office to home. Is it reasonable
to believe that the Republicans are relieved that they have been booted
off the hot seat over Iraq and now the world will give America time to
get another act together, since hope springs eternal? Yes. That's
what this changing of the guard, in appearance more than substance, was
all about. So, considering
the above, did anyone win the election? © 2006 Dorothy A. Seese - All Rights Reserved
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