“Government sees itself above the law.”

The citizens, the people, know they are not represented by politicians. The citizens know they do not drive the vehicle. Most do not want to admit this. They believe, however, that when a politician for a party takes office or votes; ie drives the vehicle; he or she does it in a manner that is representative of the platforms and principles of the party, and those platforms and principles represent the wishes and best interests of the people. But the citizens erroneously believe that if aligned with a party, or if a party represents a similar philosophical belief system, that when that party is in control of the governing bodies, these same people have representation. The terrible reality is that they don’t.

Most people believe the party represents their ideals, but the truth is that, from the first exertion of party politics, alignment or faith in a party is a surrender of the representative process. Mindful, emotional, sentient beings cannot be represented by mindless, heartless, robotic things. People cannot be represented by a vehicle designed to drive another vehicle. The representative process is purest when people represent people. Remove the parties, remove the increasing cogs in the redundant wheels and the people can drive the vehicle again.

Both parties and their respective platforms are grossly flawed at the expense of all people. The people feed the machine but don’t drive it. The machine is a glutton but it wasn’t designed so. Government cannot be blamed for anything, nor given credit. Government cannot create jobs. Government cannot create wealth. Government, a thing, a tool, cannot create anything, but it can destroy. The more government there is, the more destruction there is. Mindless vehicles cannot create.

People in government are responsible for all that government does but make no mistake; there is absolutely no creation, no production from government or government people. Government does NOT create jobs, it steals credit for growth. Government is a parasite, contributing nothing, producing nothing, creating nothing. People in government are parasites, contributing nothing, producing nothing, creating nothing. The role of government is so unproductive the citizens are safest from it when government is shackled and ineffectual. The ineffectual government, the loose union of the states with their dis-unified militias and unpaid army won a war of independence. What could be more important than individual and national independence? Yet most see government for what it truly is today, but won’t admit it. Most see government as a means of over-stepping the independence of others and legally stealing from them. Hence the burden of social programs designed to steal, by excessively wasteful programs, the wealth of others. What do politicos do except steal from the people? They live gluttonous lifestyles for no production, no creativity, no contribution of their own. Government today has given the people a deck of cards with driving instructions and maneuvers. The citizens are given entitlements to play with these cards; trading, complaining about rookie stats, sending cards to Washington, getting new cards to play with, and in all this, the citizens believe we are driving the vehicle.

People do all these things using the vehicle that was designed for a simple function only; and that is to govern for collective defense (Bastiat), provide for fair and just exchange of goods and services, and to prevent the illegal, immoral and unconstitutional concentration of power. Lying, manipulation, rhetoric, redundancy, and propaganda add immeasurable variables and destructive forces to this simple process.