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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Random Political Musings regarding the DNC and RNC

Posted by L S. "Spencer" Olsen at 9:00 AM

If you want to get a sense for the Constitutional aptitude of each political party, you need look no further than the audience at each respective convention.  The RNC was pretty well organized.  Each state was represented in its own section and separated by tall poles bearing signage with respect to the state's name.  Many in the audience held a sign  that was most likely given at the door so that the cameras and candidates would have something to look at.

The DNC was similar but there was definitely a different story going on here.  What we saw last night was a near absence of state division.  I did at one point see a sign for Maine, but it was up in the nose-bleed seats.
Looking in this picture, I can actually make out the sign from Delaware directly up and to the left of Michelle.  What stands out, though, is how the issued signs looks almost exactly like the state markers.  My tin foil hat says that this was done intentionally so that we would know that we are 1 nation of people working together.

Wow, one nation of people, working together.  The video that they played said that the government is the only thing we all belong to.
  
Kind of makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, doesn't it?  It does until you realize that we aren't a single country.  We're 50 small countries; it's the states that belong to the federal government, not the people.

The intent of the Founding Fathers was not to lump all of America into a single government.  How do we know?  One, the name of our country is the United States of America.  We are not called the American Union, or America, or Union of Federalist America...  No we are the united States.  The definition of a state is...
"a sovereign political power or community" state. (n.d.). Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. Retrieved September 05, 2012, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/state
 
The U.S. government was set up to allow each state to be sovereign in its own government while adhering to a single federal government whose main purpose was to ensure the protection of rights for the people.
 
Look no further than the organization for representation.  Under the U.S. constitution, each state was sovereign and elected their own government.  The people then elected Representatives to the House of Representatives to represent their rights.  The states' governments elected Senators to represent their rights.  The small entity of the President and his advisers worked for the best interest of the United States in an international level as well as oversee the military.  Power to work within the interests of the States and the People is granted but only as an adviser with limited power.  The Judges (judicial branch) is there to ensure that each branch does not overstep the constitution and infringe on the rights that are guaranteed therein.
 
Over the years, the original intent of the Constitution has been has been changed a bit.  For example, states' legislators no longer choose Senators, the people from the state are charged with that task.  What can be said of each political party is that they have, over the years, taken the president's role as a diplomat, adviser, and commander in chief and added more and more influence and power where there should be limitations.  But this current batch of Democrats seem to want to go a step further and destroy the sovereignty of the several states, pushing us into a country ruled by a single government. 

Look again at the two pictures.  Who's interested in the several states?

 

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