I’m not ok with this.

Recently it was commented that it was ok for a politician to “call out” the American public as to their responsibilities. This was in relation to the town hall protests this past summer. So let me get this straight. It is OK for the people WE elect to refer to US as ‘stupid‘, ‘racist’, ‘terrorist‘ or ‘evil-mongers‘ because WE question their policies? Or have a person WE put in power ask US for ID before answering a question from a constituent? We don’t have to show ID to vote (dependant on state of course), so why should we show ID to talk to the person WE put in power over US? Last time I checked it was WE THE PEOPLE, not WE THE GOVERNMENT.

 

Now I am not arguing that the people of this country don’t have their weight to carry. That’s sort of a given and I can’t believe I have to spell that out to people. However, the conversation is about how the top 1% can carry ALL that weight. That’s not what this country is about. That’s a consumer attitude. All teeth and no flesh. Look at the exodus from New York of the top earners. It’s not fair weight that is trying to be implemented. It is punishment for success that they are talking about. Any economist will tell you that eventually trickles down, not up.

 

Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. – Alexander Pope

 

I thought we as American’s had the right, no correct that, the responsibility to question our elected representatives when we believe they are implementing bad policy? I thought freedom of speech applied to all equally, not just those that hold one point of political view either way? Look at how the Tea Party protest over the summer was covered with such bias. Or how common constituents, little old grandma, is cast as an extreme right-wing nut? And why where they cast in such a light? Simply because they exercised the firsts amendment right?

 

I am not ok with that.

 

“What really do you stand for Consti?” I’ve heard this frequently. Again, I can’t believe I have to spell this out to people. I don’t arrogantly presume to “speak for the people” or the “little guy”. I don’t speak for one party or the other, nor do I speak for one socio-economic group, for one religion, one racial group, or one anything. I speak for myself, as a citizen of this country. I speak with the people, not for the people.

 

I am for your right to stand on your patio in your boxers covered in thousand island dressing while eating a double greasy with cheese, drinking a beer, smoking a cigar while reciting god bless America in front of a flag at the top of your lungs. I’m for you right to choose which school your children attend. For your right to question those that you put in power over you and your children. I am for the guy who wants to get a job but can’t because he’s not a union member. I’m for the mothers who want the right to feed their children in public. I m for the people that want to help themselves and others. In that order.

 

I am NOT for any one (1) institution, president, politician, alderman, blogger, reporter, group, or representative that would take their power given by the people and use it to limit their freedoms. Such as speech, religion, right to assemble, or anything that was granted us in the constitution. At least the founding fathers agreed it was the people that made government, not the government that made people.

 

Throughout the history of this country too many have made the ultimate sacrifice for those freedoms. Brother against brother, father against son, children orphaned, and wives widowed for those freedoms. Both on this soil and foreign lands. Blood has been spilled for our freedoms time and time again. It would be an insult to those who gave their lives so we could live ours to let those freedoms be given away. Those people have taken their responsibility with them to the grave. They have sacrificed their life for those responsibilities.

 

You can t live it fear. An old proverb states; ‘Fear profits a man nothing.’ There is no reason the American public should fear their government. It s the government that should fear its people. And that s the way it should be.

 

Looking for my salad dressing and beer.

 

Consti

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