How Representative Is Our Government?

From Rebellion:

Tuesday, August 10, 2010


How representative is our government?



Answer: It's completely representative -- if you're a member of the ruling elite. For those of us who aren't, the government is an alien, hostile, parasitical force in our lives. Consider these findings:





There is a growing disconnect in this country between average Americans and the largely center-left political elite. That disconnect is what will destroy the Democrats in November and, should the Republicans offer no better, cause potentially cataclysmic change in the republic.



Consider the Rasmussen surveys of late:



86% of voters believe there should b “limits on what the federal government can do.” 54% of the political class1

disagrees.



84% of mainstream voters think the country is headed in the wrong direction. 67% of the political class think the country is headed in the right direction.



75% of mainstream voters believe the free market works better than government at regulating the economy. 44% of the political class prefer government control.



56% of mainstream voters want Obamacare repealed. 97% of the political class want it kept.



52% of mainstream voters believe increased government spending is bad for the economy. A majority of the political class disagrees.



Then consider gay marriage. More than three-quarters of the states and a majority of the people in each of those states have prohibited gay marriage. But one judge in California has, through his own “fact finding” decided gender no longer, after 5000 years, plays any role in marriage.



There is a great and growing divide between those who govern and those who are governed. But those who govern are forgetting that they only govern by the consent of those who are governed. That consent is being revoked.



The reason for the discrepancy between the ruling class and the people is that the unnatural amount of power concentrated in DC will attract those who want to control others. Healthy people are content to live their own lives, and do not care to lord power over others, and therefore shun DC politics. And the more power DC usurps, the more attractive it becomes for psychopaths, and the less attractive it becomes for normal folks.



posted by Old Rebel @ Tuesday, August 10, 2010