The United States appears to be controlled by an oligarchy in which the American Israel Public Affiars Committee (AIPAC) is a major player, accompanied by many of the major corporations in the United States and elsewhere. That there is such a party is pure conjecture, but it is conjecture that is motivated by an abundance of facts. Call it the Tyrant Party because it rules independently of the will of the people.
The Tyrant Party controls the U.S. through two parties, or divisions, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. For the last 30 or so years the Republican Party has neither introduced nor passed any significant legislation other than the ill-advised No Child Left Behind Act. All of the significant legislation was passed when the Democrats had control of the government. When the disastrous Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was passed by the Democrats and found to be unaffordable and generally objectionable by the majority of the public the Republican Party refused to either modify it or repeal it. Why?
The answer is that they were not supposed to.
The history of Washington politics over the last 30 years lends credence to the conjecture that the Tyrant Party uses the Democratic Party division to introduce and pass all legislation that concentrates government power in Washington, reduces the power of the states to act independently, and disenfranchises the voting public. Both parties oppose the Tea Party and their allies. Remember earlier this year when Senator Reid asked Speaker of the House Boehner to control the Tea Party representatives in the House and he said he would. So much for voter influence on government.
Their actions make it evident that the vast majority of the members of the House and Senate are there to profit from selling legislation to the highest bidder. The consequences are unimportant unless they are felt just before the next election. The compliant public will forget what was done last year; they will be engrossed in the most recent crisis.
The role of the Republican Party division of the Tyrant Party is to deceive the voting public into believing that there is an opposition party and that voting for Republican candidates will effect a change. But after all of the talk and bluster by the Republican leaders, they always wilt whenever confronted by Democrats and their supporting propaganda/news media. The majority of Republican members of Congress refuse to tour their districts and to counter the biased reporting of the propaganda/news media. If the Republican Party were interested doing what most of the public wants, it would promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with something free of government interference and corruption, such as medical savings accounts. It would also promise to curtail government use of drones to monitor the public, it would promise to reduce taxes on working families and list specific cuts to curtail government waste, and it would promise to stop wasting lives of the military on futile and expensive foreign intervention. Finally, it would expel illegal aliens and close the borders and carefully control immigration to prevent disease carrying and crime prone foreigners from adding to our domestic problems.
But it is not willing to promise any of that. Before the 2014 elections the Republican Party leaders have been ominously silent on what the party would do if it regained control of both the House and the Senate.
And again, that is because they are not supposed to. The Tyrant Party rules.
Owners of the major propaganda/news media are important members of the Tyrant Party. In fact they are the government, in that they tell Congress what to do. When they say jump Congress says, “How high?” Recall that whenever the major media feature a new problem that they say needs action Congress appoints a congressional commission study the problem and suggest legislation. Then the Democrats introduce appropriate legislation, the Republicans fuss about it, but the legislation passes.
Convincing evidence that the public is to be ignored is the emphatic refusal of the vast majority of Congress to limit all bills to just one topic, to restrict their length to 5,000 words, all in plain English, and to require that all bills be placed on the Internet for public scrutiny for 60 days before they are scheduled to be voted upon. Thus, with this information each member of the public could call his or her representative and senator to give instructions on how to vote before a bill is brought up for a vote in either the U.S. Senate or in the U.S. House of Representatives. Remember that representative and senators work for us; we are their employers because our taxes pay their wages.
In summary, it might be wise to limit new legislation to eight bills per month from the House and eight bills per month from the Senate. Too restrictive? Pick a year, say 1950. We were at peace and most of the gainfully employed were more prosperous than they are now, in 2014. We did not need more legislation then, but we got it. Can you find a bill in all of the legislation between then and now that was not introduced to satisfy a bribe or a special interest group?
From Congress: Don’t bother us. Be quite and obey!
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The Tyrant Party
Posted on October 30, 2014 by William Orthwein
The United States appears to be controlled by an oligarchy in which the American Israel Public Affiars Committee (AIPAC) is a major player, accompanied by many of the major corporations in the United States and elsewhere. That there is such a party is pure conjecture, but it is conjecture that is motivated by an abundance of facts. Call it the Tyrant Party because it rules independently of the will of the people.
The Tyrant Party controls the U.S. through two parties, or divisions, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. For the last 30 or so years the Republican Party has neither introduced nor passed any significant legislation other than the ill-advised No Child Left Behind Act. All of the significant legislation was passed when the Democrats had control of the government. When the disastrous Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was passed by the Democrats and found to be unaffordable and generally objectionable by the majority of the public the Republican Party refused to either modify it or repeal it. Why?
The answer is that they were not supposed to.
The history of Washington politics over the last 30 years lends credence to the conjecture that the Tyrant Party uses the Democratic Party division to introduce and pass all legislation that concentrates government power in Washington, reduces the power of the states to act independently, and disenfranchises the voting public. Both parties oppose the Tea Party and their allies. Remember earlier this year when Senator Reid asked Speaker of the House Boehner to control the Tea Party representatives in the House and he said he would. So much for voter influence on government.
Their actions make it evident that the vast majority of the members of the House and Senate are there to profit from selling legislation to the highest bidder. The consequences are unimportant unless they are felt just before the next election. The compliant public will forget what was done last year; they will be engrossed in the most recent crisis.
The role of the Republican Party division of the Tyrant Party is to deceive the voting public into believing that there is an opposition party and that voting for Republican candidates will effect a change. But after all of the talk and bluster by the Republican leaders, they always wilt whenever confronted by Democrats and their supporting propaganda/news media. The majority of Republican members of Congress refuse to tour their districts and to counter the biased reporting of the propaganda/news media. If the Republican Party were interested doing what most of the public wants, it would promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with something free of government interference and corruption, such as medical savings accounts. It would also promise to curtail government use of drones to monitor the public, it would promise to reduce taxes on working families and list specific cuts to curtail government waste, and it would promise to stop wasting lives of the military on futile and expensive foreign intervention. Finally, it would expel illegal aliens and close the borders and carefully control immigration to prevent disease carrying and crime prone foreigners from adding to our domestic problems.
But it is not willing to promise any of that. Before the 2014 elections the Republican Party leaders have been ominously silent on what the party would do if it regained control of both the House and the Senate.
And again, that is because they are not supposed to. The Tyrant Party rules.
Owners of the major propaganda/news media are important members of the Tyrant Party. In fact they are the government, in that they tell Congress what to do. When they say jump Congress says, “How high?” Recall that whenever the major media feature a new problem that they say needs action Congress appoints a congressional commission study the problem and suggest legislation. Then the Democrats introduce appropriate legislation, the Republicans fuss about it, but the legislation passes.
Convincing evidence that the public is to be ignored is the emphatic refusal of the vast majority of Congress to limit all bills to just one topic, to restrict their length to 5,000 words, all in plain English, and to require that all bills be placed on the Internet for public scrutiny for 60 days before they are scheduled to be voted upon. Thus, with this information each member of the public could call his or her representative and senator to give instructions on how to vote before a bill is brought up for a vote in either the U.S. Senate or in the U.S. House of Representatives. Remember that representative and senators work for us; we are their employers because our taxes pay their wages.
In summary, it might be wise to limit new legislation to eight bills per month from the House and eight bills per month from the Senate. Too restrictive? Pick a year, say 1950. We were at peace and most of the gainfully employed were more prosperous than they are now, in 2014. We did not need more legislation then, but we got it. Can you find a bill in all of the legislation between then and now that was not introduced to satisfy a bribe or a special interest group?
From Congress: Don’t bother us. Be quite and obey!
William Orthwein is a retired engineer.