Who Owns the Government?

Henry Kissinger once said “Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”

Who owns the government? 

Good question. We used to. Not any more. 

 It's owned by a cabal of politicians who tell us what we can do, where and with whom.  Its men and women who have rigged the voting system to all but guarantee their jobs, with the aid and comfort of a judiciary which is supposed to protect the rest of us and an executive branch that at the moment runs roughshod over everything we thought we knew about America. 

All of this is funded by a group of enormously rich and powerful men and women who keep the machinery running without thought of its eventual cost and its eventual end.

The government is government by a gentlemen's agreement in which most people are so frightened about putting a meal on the table that they ignore everything including the corruption, misfeasance and malfeasance or just don't care as long as the lights go on, the water runs and they can pay the rent or the mortgage and have an occasional gourmet meal at Sonic or KFC.

A subset is run by a small knot of people who have destroyed the meaning of freedom by claiming they are the archetype of freedom... they are free to freeload while practicing anarchy or trying to.  

They are free to graze their cattle on government land, rent free.  They are free to use human waste to fertilize crops in violation of local sanitation laws.

They see white people as the “master race,” except for those they see as only marginally or technically white -- like many Jews, Italians, Spaniards, Russians, Greeks and others who don’t look like they stepped out of a Visit Stuttgart travel poster.  

We know what happens when someone declares a “master race.” We know that our dictator-in-waiting believes that there are some “very good people” among the neo-nazis, the klansmen and their imitators and wannabes.

But it’s not just racism.  It’s economicism, too, although that’s often a cover for racial bigotry.  

The days of, by and for the people are long gone.  If they ever really existed.

NOTES FROM ALL OVER:

(NEW YORK) -- The major networks and the widely watched cable news channels carried President Obama’s speech to the high school class of 2020. Even Fox News channel and its entertainment affiliates.  Don’t you wish you could have been a fly on trump’s wall when that happened?

(CHICAGO) -- President Obama gave two speeches Saturday. The earlier one was to graduates of historically black colleges.  Here’s the “pull quote” from that one: “More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing.” 

(JAMAICA ESTATES, NY) -- President trump, old white guy, is a minority in his home community of Jamaica Estates, population 18,000. No wonder he fled.

(LANSING, MI) -- Libertarian presidential hopeful Justin Amash has backed out of the election.  That was fast.  Just not fast enough.

I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®

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© WJR who is nominally and technically white 2020.