It is our government

One should not make a post when emotional about a subject, so this post is an exception. In other words, it is not by accident, but on purpose.

And when I think our Federal President believes it is "his" government, then my blood boils. After all it is "our" government, and whatever we make of it; good, bad, or indifferent.

Now for an old Marine, I am pretty liberal in my politics, mostly on the domestic side of things. So, in my mind, I sense the frustration over the apparently deliberate inaction of so many of our elected Federal Representatives in the legislative side of things, and from both of the present national parties.

 But the alterative that appeals to me most is to get new Federal Representatives, vice work around those we have elected to date. In others words, vote for those who best represent our American selves and our values. It might even take a third party for hope and change to reassert itself.

Just how the two present national parties voted enough authority for some future Federal President and his hired minions to have all this king like authority to rule is still amazing to me, both that they did it, and that some Federal President would exploit it. And of course, we Americans have kept electing these types of Federal Legislators that did all this.

What does not appeal to me is a royalty way of governing, which still exists in many places around the world. I still prefer having a written constitution, and the rule of law, and a checks and balances method to keep both the idealists and power mad people in check, and provide for the common people to succeed when they work hard and go by the rules. In other words, I still want to think I have some influence over my and my Family's future; and through the vote is my method of choice in spring 2012.

Now if we have a Federal President who wants to be a King, for whatever reasons, and to even have his hired Court, then it is time to vote him out, as well as all the others who persist in maintaining the status quo that has gotten us where we are, today. Yep, hope and change is still alive and well, at least to me.

Last in my emotional rant, I still wonder what will happen if Obama is voted out? My imagination is fertile ground for mischief. And so I do worry about mischief, and its probable effects on my Family.