Our nations brand of government is like the comic book “Bizarro World”.
What is supposed to be is so skewered it’s hard to remember what we actually started with.
A two party system with checks and balances, a Supreme Court to interpret law without political influence, pure-to protect citizens’ rights and an administration to act from the will of the people-provided by elected officials representing citizens of the United States.
In Bizarro World there are no representatives for the citizens. In fact, no representation of the little people exists.
Elections are paid for by multinational corporations and they are represented. Multinational corporations hire people they call lobbyists to tell those they elected what they want. Those hired pretend to represent citizens while “voting” as instructed. In return, they leave the job eventually to work for the corporations or with large amounts of money.
Citizens blame the rape of their coffers on the administration. Each administration promises to change this process of big business running government but once in, are voted out because the dirt is so deep it resembles quicksand.
In fact the only administrations voted in more than once are those that represent the big businesses.
What isn’t in the Bizarro World story is how it ends.
While Big Business and Corrupt government can steal from the people who earnestly work and pay taxes, there comes a saturation point. We are close to it.
In our ideal government, the alarms would have gone off years ago and the corruption would have been swept away.
In Bizarro World, corruption wins the day and the little people are swept away.
Constance Hays