American status quo versus American nouveau

What if the body politic changed, and the dinosaur politicians lagged behind, or maybe did not even get it? What if their financiers had their own out of touch agendas?

What if recent “old time” federal strategies of run to the national party’s extremes in the primaries and then to the middle in the general elections began to “not work”? What if words began to mean something, and pandering became caustic. Even a normally blasé and busy body politic senses when things are not right, and a threat to their existence and way of life exists. Such are the times today.

Not that the politicians who volunteer to run for federal office are lazy or even assuming. They have much competition and their own family frictions. But America and its future is not about them, but us. And “us” most certainly is not the present two national parties, one which is probably not a national party anymore, though it will take a decade or so to show the reasons their leaders ran their party into the American ground.

Rather “us” is we Americans, and how we choose to be governed. Our Constitution is so special in human history. No prior religious books like the Bible or Koran suggest anything like our new world America is normal, though it should be. Said another way, those who are born here who think all that we have is normal are spoiled, selfish, of just plain naïve, like I and may others were. I offer as evidence the present immigration trends towards our Country as suggesting others recognize this special and unique America.

And on to nouveau, since Americans are problem solvers. Initiative and making mistakes, and picking up and trying better, are culturally imbued. Now many know zero defects mentality in the military and regular American life and work, but that idea is seldom applied to American politics. This political idea of initiative and willingness to make mistakes should be amplified, as there has got to be a better way than the present two national parties being in charge of the election process at all levels, and we body politic should not have to accept the choices from among the volunteers who choose to go through their party’s gauntlets.

The present situation is not by accident, but on purpose. And many well intentioned and hard working Americans got us where we are today. Consider that things might have even been worse than they are today? But in turn, there has to be a better way. All this assumes the American people have changed, and whom we vote for should reflect this. One can even assume that outsiders with money to donate are not able to pander to the body politic anymore, though many dinosaur politicians will take the money and pander to us, with “our” tax money, of course.

One hopes real American change starts in the elections of 2008, but maybe not. America has suffered through a few decades of poor leaders, albeit volunteers promoted by their parties and elected by fellow Americans, often pandered to. Political power and access to the national wealth resulted. But things have changed, and it is reasonable to expect American leaders to be voted in and begin to act like their fellow Americans, who sense, things about to get bad. Bad is the sins of our ancestors, and good is what we do about it.