An ancient Chinese poem spoke of a decaying and corrupt imperial state whose people's leaders are detached from their day-to-day needs. Today that detachment is found in a party whose representatives pay themselves six-figure salaries while denying government services to millions of Americans.
The electorate overwhelmingly rejected the Republicans' conservative mandate last year. They even gave Democrats 1.4 million more votes for Congress than Republicans. Who's representing the people in the Republican Caucus? Leaders with names like Boehner, Cantor, and Ryan keep trying to force through the same solutions which the people rejected last year. And even they're not fully in control. They're forced to answer to every single member of their chaotic caucus -- all 233 of them.
" ... the people are few yet officials abound."
None of these 233 Representatives were elected to run the Executive Branch, or to choose which laws are to be implemented and which are to be rejected. And yet, that's what they're trying to do.
Democrats have already made too many concessions. They're right to stand up to the Imperial Congress. But that won't be enough. It's time for the people to take their government back from the extremists, before their empire collapses and takes us all down with it.
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