Americans
hold elected officials to unbelievably low
standards. After years of observation from both
inside and outside the political arena, I conclude
voters choose party affiliation based on 30 second
sound bites rather than sifting through the filthy
details. As I make my living with my left arm elbow
deep in cow manure, I am a bit of an expert at
sorting sh_ _ from Shinola, so let me clarify the
political picture. I will warn you right now, many
folks will find today’s column a cold slap across
the face, which is precisely my intent. Here we go.
The beginning of January marks the swearing-in
ceremony for nearly all elected officials from local
government down through folks serving in the lowly
offices at the federal level. All raise their right
hand and recite an oath of office pledging their
allegiance to the US Constitution along with their
respective state constitutions ending with, “so help
me God.” Before the end of February nearly every
member of one political party will have cast nearly
100 percent of their votes in complete opposition to
their oath, yet their supporters do not find this
objectionable. Progressives advocate Marxist wealth
redistribution but their sound bite promoting
themselves as being for poor people sounds too
wonderful for the unwashed and college graduates to
ignore. Coveting your neighbor’s stuff is infectious
and addicting, but it is so wrong it made God’s top
ten list of things you shall not do. Progressivism
survives on covetousness and misinformation.
The second political party is comprised of two
divisions: First, Tea Party patriots fully committed
to limited government and second, establishment
politicians fully committed to compromise. This
second group, I call the cocktail caucus, will
support any and every program as long as it secures
their re-election. Their mantra is they can waste
tax dollars more efficiently than the Progressives
and they love big government as long as they get to
drive the bus delivering the freebies. Fifty percent
of the votes they cast will be contrary to their
oath of office; a fact hidden through
misinformation.
The last group, the Tea Party patriots, are the
outliers who actually adhere to their oath. Most
have real jobs outside of politics and like
Jefferson and Washington, they answer the call to
serve their country, after which they just want to
go home. Most were elected by voters astute enough
to realize 18 trillion dollars of debt with no end
in sight is destroying our republic. On the
political battlefield, the Progressives and the
cocktail caucus despise the Tea Party with equal
fervor. Both will use all available means to defeat
Tea Partiers so as each can reclaim membership in
the ruling class; an authority achieved by trapping
the unwashed in the dependency class. As the 2015
legislative and congressional sessions unfold, keep
the above truths in mind to clarify who is doing
what and why.
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