The Complete Patriotic Failure of the House and Senate

 Thanks to decades of cruel and selfish behavior unbefitting any sense of ability to lead, by the House and the Senate, America underwent a great social decline.   They created through Quid-Pro-Quo (money for favor) an economy in which most of the middle class lost their pursuit of the American dream.

  They set the standard two generations ago for the rest of the country.  From Town, City, County and State, to Washington, D.C. it became acceptable to take money from rich people and do what they want.

They sold the well-being of the average citizen and created an environment where much of America felt completely alone.   Poisonous conduct permeated our leadership.  Our leaders sold the quality of life for our people, our land, our water and our air.  It is in this money sucking at any expense environment, that the grave personality weaknesses of Donald Trump were far less important than giving any outside hope a chance.  Most, in desperation overlooked his flaws in hopes of reaping work from his business acumen.  They also overlooked his belief in low wages.   

As prevails in declining society, many of the most able benefit in the declining system, overlooking the masses that do not.  Especially in a country like America where we separate by status, race and ethnicity, the better off do not witness the suffering of over half the nation.  A quarter of us are doing just fine and you will resent my intensity.  Another quarter is getting by somewhat ok.  To that I say, “Even Dictators do better than that”.  Half is not enough.  To be in keeping with our founding goals, work should be available to each commensurate with their abilities and the minimum income should be livable.  And let there be no mistake in understanding the Trump Presidency is due specifically to unfair or no wages for too many.  If you understand that specificity then you understand why nothing else mattered.  For each of us, the bottom line is the tool to give us “food” and “shelter” and a reasonable life.  America has been failing this and it finally caught up.  

I witnessed in my lifetime with daily awe and disbelief the leaders of this land decimate the intent of the finest document to guide mankind ever devised.  In their own right the 535 (the U.S. Congress) have done far more damage to this country than Trump could ever do.  They led us into the cultural dungeon of the third world.  10’s of millions live with far less.  Immigrants will work for minimum wage alongside most Americans, usually for lifetimes.  What could be more unfair than corporate owners having billions each for their kids as their workers are forced to go on food stamps?  The American dream has literally been removed from our lexicon as so few have real hope of achieving it.  Except for the hideous racists and others missing the empathy gene, the large majority of Trump voters did not vote for him.  They voted against everything the 535 should have protected us against.    

There has never been a failure in human history and likely will never be another that can match the outright selling of humankinds hope by those charged with protecting the beacon of the land that guided the world.  The 535 joined all that is evil.  They took money and looked the other way.  For money they allowed corporations to ravage the work, the very life-blood of communities.  They did this on such scale the entire country degraded.  The media lay useless.  Their CEO’s, also Corporate and for sale.  The 535 has allowed Corporations, for money, to imbed this integrity sucking practice into widespread policy.  This has allowed the power hungry despicable corporate world to guide mankind.  The 535 have knowingly allowed us to devolve into a system devoid of empathy for the people for money.  Only individual narcissistic cowardice devoid of patriotism prevented opposition.  Headlines were obsequiously oblivious to the evil mustard seed poison:  Selling legislation and favor for money.    

The answer is so glaring, and simple, and “just”, and it is a disgrace that we have ignored it.  As humans all we can hope for is the best that humans can be.  To achieve this you must recognize the weaknesses that historically blemish leadership.  That is lust for money and power.  To remove these you must dis- incentivize such pursuers.  You remove avenues that provide profits for offending the common good.  Those with true love of country that govern for human justice, and the people that will fight for the intent of our founding will replace them.  “Public financing on every level of government is the answer”.  

Those that genuinely believe that Trump is a solution via leadership, have miss-read who he is.  He is solution only in that he has shown how far we have devolved.  As the realities of his administration come to light we will realize that America has all but disappeared.  All because of the Mustard Seed Planted generations ago.  A seed named “Quid Pro Quo”.  

The talk of ample reasonable paying jobs is just talk.  Trumps efforts may well result in a large return of work.  But for the teeming poor, they will be minimum wage.  Only a few percent will get the better jobs that make the headlines.  The circle of removing good jobs from America until Americans devolved into acceptance born of desperation, and then return them at third world wages will be complete.  The majority of the Middle Class has already joined the poor.  

I am disgusted that the system could not produce anyone willing and able to change it.  I am ashamed that we have resorted to a man that put Steve Bannon (a man that shames the horror of Auschwitz, the dreams of King and now our so hallowed halls in the White House.  A man that makes fun of handicapped and belittles individuals on unprecedented levels, and lies at the drop of a hat is our president.  I do not look for progress through successes.  I look for America to learn her lesson from his monumental failures.  An entire land of favor for favor had no other place to go.  I am disappointed that enormous failure or revolution on some scale is all that is left to motivate us to fix our land.  The very fact that he is in office miserably degrades and fails our pursuit.  Not because it is a bad system.  But because there is not ample definition of intent and no adhering ideas or principles.  It is impossible to comply with Constitutional Intent and govern from a system of rewarding donors.  I leave you with a little doomsday message to the Tech world and the entire Corporate world as they partner with unparalleled job sucking robotic automation and technological progress.   

NAFTA did remove an enormous number of Jobs from America.  However, trade deals are useless without applying and understanding the near future.  A new wave of advancements in high technology and robotic automation that are not regarding the people are on the very near horizon.  It is here where the final threat and destroyer of work exists and may well be setting the course for revolution.  Under the veneer of everyday life lies a seething massive population.  This wave of job loss, in addition to the current environment will not be acceptable.  If we do not heed the voices and the lessons of the Trump voter their numbers and “belief” will fester.  If they come to perceive deeper irretractile futility in government, all hell could easily break lose. 

Our epitaph will begin something like this:  The few, the authors and the participants in the heartless sucking of our founders hopes.  They bought the American Bounty for themselves, which was hope for the poor and the well-being of the middle class.  They left crumbs.  One day they woke up and the oppressed were everywhere.  No one was safe.  The line had been crossed.  Greed and Power lost.  At what price, we asked, at what price.  The streets ran crimson  

Bill McClellan