If the United States were a nation, it would not be just sick. It would be near death. Everything appears out of control or bad. The gap in wealth between rich and poor is atrocious. Criminals at all social levels seem bolder than ever. No one knows what the government in Washington is up to and we see daily on the media piddling politicians doing piddling things clumsily and stupidly. President Trump has done all he can to grab much more power than his office allows and has failed. The Congress and the Senate have republican majorities and seem to be without goals. The most amazing sickness is the malady in our American heads that forces us to believe the government in Washington is actually our national government. What does it govern? What does it do? What national projects does it plan and execute? It seems powerless to solve problems that are evident to all of us and yet it has more power than any other government in the world. Paul Ryan, the third man in line for the presidency in case of deaths, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, just tried to pass a new health bill that would have deprived 24 million low-income Americans of health-care insurance. Is this his idea of carrying out some national policy? How many of us would he have killed if he had succeeded in passing his bill? Any number is sickening even if it were just one and logic puts the number at least into the thousands. What a confused time! Where are we going? How did we get so sick and is there a cure?
No cure is necessary. Everything is working fine as long as we protect ourselves from the sickness that comes over us when we think of Washington as a national government run by national politicians. The real government we Americans live under is represented by the boss where we work and by the incredibly complex financial and legal system that backs up our boss, our corporations, our world-class economy and the worldwide economy. The government in Washington works perfectly well doing the business of managing the spending of trillions of dollars of American tax money and the money it borrows from foreigners. The Congress in Washington is not split between Democrats and Republicans when it comes down to spending our tax money. They get together. They pass bills quickly. They make deals. None of us Americans complain about Washington bigwigs being national and international high rollers and wheeler-dealers, especially since our economic security and that of all foreigners depends on the sophisticated money deals they make behind closed doors. When politicians in Washington are spending other people’s money they do a healthy business. Their behavior seems sickly to us only when they pretend publicly that they are politicians governing a nation.
Daniel McNeill
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