Zomgee

Many of you remember a year or two ago when I had lotrfanatic.com up and running and I was posting once a month if you were lucky and then this whole past year where I posted very infrequently on zomgee.com. Why do you suppose that was? It certainly wasn’t out of a lack of things to write about. We’ve had more blog ranting fodder in the past year and a half than we’ve had in quite a while. It wasn’t because I had become less informed or because I didn’t care anymore. It was because I had become disillusioned with the system that had brought us here, and just lost the desire to write about it.

Around a year ago the Republicans nominated John McCain who was about the worst possible choice they could have made. They claimed he would bring in the moderate vote and they would thereby retain power. The democrats on the other hand nominated the most far-left candidate that we’ve seen in quite some time. They had no desire to be moderate. They had managed to paint a picture in the popular media that George Bush was nothing but a crazy far-right extremist and that only they could bring the country together via bipartisanship. Barack Obama tried to cast himself as the moderate that John McCain really was. Their platforms seemed on the surface to actually be quite similar except Obama’s was cast in this vapor of hope and change. Each of these meant something different to every person and the masses loved him for it. Yet through all of that 46% of those who voted still didn’t buy into his strategy for America.

Now he is in power and any pretenses for bringing the country together in the spirit of bipartisanship are long gone. We’re only weeks into his presidency and we’ve seen a call for reform in White House leadership coupled with appointments that include lobbyists and several people who committed tax fraud. His big plan to save the economy includes tax cuts that will amount to $13 extra a month and tax credits to shift the wealth to low income people who don’t pay taxes or pay very little. The spending is mostly on pet projects or building plans that won’t take place for years to come and he’s also managed to sneak in the beginnings of universal health care into the bill that is suppose to stimulate and create jobs.

But what does this really have to do with my disillusionment? After all he won right? That’s the thing, yes Obama won and he is now my president, the Democrats won much of the house and Senate and they are now my representatives but the power of these United States was suppose to be to the people and the people know that this bill stinks. That however doesn’t matter, house and senate Democrats have even said, and I paraphrase loosely, that if the people wanted them to do something different they wouldn’t have re-elected them. It was basically a “we’re elected and we’ll do what we want.” I’m sorry but it’s not about what they want, it’s about what we want. Washington has forgotten that, and that is why I’m disillusioned.

The Democrats are not the only culprits either. The Republicans spent eight years spending like drunken sailors and doing little if anything to reform the government back to it’s constitutional upbringings. They expanded government at every chance and listened to the people only if we got really mad about something. One example is immigration reform and yet they still didn’t do what the people wanted. They’re only voting the way the people want now because they’re afraid that they may lose their power altogether and quite frankly they may anyway, but they brought it on themselves and deserve every bit of it.

We as a country do  not deserve it…or…maybe we do. We’ve allowed ourselves to get addicted to government programs and to believe that the government can answer our problems or at the very least we thought that the government was capable of fixing anything at all. The problem is, the government is the solution to nothing and never has been. The government is a necessary evil to keep law and order and to protect the people of the country and to provide for the freedom to live our lives. That is slowly eroding and it won’t be long until the government, rather than limiting itself, is limiting freedom so that it can grow itself. Before long there won’t be the freedom of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness but rather the freedom to live if you’re worth saving, liberty to say and do what the government asks, and the pursuit of anything that is asked of you. That is why I’m disillusioned and I’m not alone…when will the sleeping giant that is the American public stand up, or will we be like all the good men in history past who failed to do anything at all.