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with diverse backgrounds to come to a decision make better decisions than individuals or small groups of people, no matter how smart or benevolent the individuals are. Our founding fathers actively engaged in that type of process, and they knew that what they created was better than what they individually brought to the table. So they put together a structure that would encourage that type of process. And they believed that divided power with strong checks and balances would restrain the propensity of individuals to overreach.
It was a marvelous invention and one that worked for a very long time. It saddens me that this invention - this gift from those wise men who had thought so deeply about power and government - has been distorted into something betrays their ideals. Today, we have a rubber-stamp Congress which has abdicated its responsibility to oversee and check the executive branch. We have a court system that anointed our current President despite the fact that the people actually voted for the other guy. And we have an executive that is as deeply irrational and as arbitrary as King George III. The results are a government that no longer works for most of those it governs and one that has created monumental problems which will be extremely difficult to overcome. This is a government that has wasted the treasure of the people, lied to the people to take us into a debilitating and unnecessary war, stripped the citizens of their rights as defined in the Bills of Rights and has darkened the future prospects for the majority of its people.
As citizens, it is up to us to hold this government accountable. And it will be up to us to restore and rebuild a government that works for us: one that spends our money wisely, one that once more respects our rights, one that does not go to war arbitrarily, and one that is rational enough to address the looming problem of global warming. It is time to take our country back from those who have betrayed their oath they took to protect defend the Constitution and the ideals that our forefathers bequeathed to us.
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