Who Wins, Who Loses? We do!

In my last post I included the entire essay from Kevin Tillman (yes bad blogging form I know) because his words are worthy of being heard.

I have but one point of dissent with Kevin - he believes that the have a democracy in America and he believes that this November there is a chance to set things right. (my points below are directed most specifically to the crowd that thinks voting for someone "new" will fix things - not at Kevin Tillman)

First, The Federal Government is not a democracy, it is a republic. Kevin is certainly not the only person to make this mistake, for some reason the word democracy has come into our language as a good thing - something to be aspired to. Our Founding Fathers knew much better.

Charlie Resse calls the one day when The People take control of their government via the ballot box Magic Day. He makes some good arguments about voter qualification - just when and who decided that jobless morons that cannot even name their state capital get to vote? Bottom line he reiterates that our government is not a democracy, rather a republic - if you really want to change it you have to vote for the right people.

Second, there are a lot of "johnny-come-lately patriots" running around right now proclaiming all that is wrong with US foreign policy - most of these are nothing more than moonbats looking for a way to put their dhimmi marionettes into office next month. They speak the truth in relation to Iraq, but for all the wrong reasons.

If anyone thinks putting the Democrats in power next month will fix anything answer these questions:

• Where were these wise, noble and brave patriots in 2003 when real informed wise and brave people were speaking out against the war?
• Just how have things like the Military Tribunals Act and the USA Patriot Act (I and II) passed without Democratic complicity?
• Just how is it that one man (i.e. the President) has clearly violated the US Constitution by illegally waging war (without a Constitutionally required declaration). Why have these brave and wise democrats not either impeached the president or failing that shut down the government entirely?

None of what the neoconservatives have done could have been done without the help of the Democrats. In fact the Democrats, either through their influence in Congress or control of the White House, are directly involved in our failings in the Middle East and North Korea. Add to that their complicity during the reign of Bush II and you end up with only one conclusion - the Democrats do not get a pass on all of this and it is preposterous for them to now claim they can fix everything. Chuck Baldwin argues that the GOP deserves to lose - he is right - but the Democrats do not deserve to win.

Kevin is right, it is time for a change - his optimism that a mere change in who sits in what seat will really fix anything is misplaced. There is no difference in the Republican and Democratic parties.