Don't Fear The "I" Word

This letter also appeared in yesterday’s Bucks County Courier Times (the author is Barry Nathan of Lower Southampton, PA)…

Somewhere along the line, politics became a sporting event. You root Red! I’ll root Blue! My ideals versus yours.

The problem is some of our ideals and ideologies are in direct contradiction to the foundations of our system. Ideologues need to be imprisoned if they serve in the trust of public office and dare to interfere with the schematic distribution of law, as outlined in our National Archives.

George Washington insisted there be no kings or bosses. No lord roaming the hallways of Capitol Hill, but each entrusted should face the electorate at regular intervals. We are the caretakers of the Constitution. That’s the job. That is our job. Politics, government and the care of our people are not sport. After family and our personal tethers to spirituality, friends and neighbors, nothing takes a backseat to strong leadership and characterized by good morals and a deep interest in the common welfare of our children, poor and aged. The love of our least is the strength of our best.

Our leaders are failing. You know it and I know it. We got lost in this million-media world where righteousness has been turned into “sport.” When known hyperbole, like the entertaining lunacy of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly, becomes sort of cult-driven false reality, we’ve bent the paradigm. People believe this crap. Which just goes to show that our educational system really is failing. Therein rests your proof.

Washington has become a subculture unto itself – by itself, for itself. Standing on the principles of corporate degeneracy; the pandering of lobbyists; and a firm desire to preserve perversity, the status quo, and the emptying of our national coffers for personal gain. When you’ve had enough, allow your senator or congressman to demand hearings that may or may not lead to impeachment and/or jail time for anyone, regardless of party affiliation, who would dare conduct himself below the standards set forth in the preceding articles of James Madison, et al.

Don’t fear impeachment. Fear a government too introverted and laced with cronyism to dare the exposure of impeachment.

I should add that I have never found anything whatsoever to do with Limbaugh or O’Reilly to constitute “entertainment,” but that is my only qualm with Nathan’s otherwise fine letter.