American public isn’t being served by politicians
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Editor,
I am composing this letter early in the evening of election night in America, Nov. 2. And I have simply one observation which I feel is profoundly accurate based upon my years of observing how our political system has responded to the real wishes, needs, best interests, and hopes of us, the voting public and supposedly “real power” in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
My simple, sad, and prophetic observation is this: regardless of who is elected, which party is in power, how many seats this or that party has in this or that “chamber of power,” we, the American public are not going to see our wishes, needs, best interests, and hopes fulfilled.
Why? The answer is simple, and very sadly true. The great majority of those in power and those elected to power in our great nation become indoctrinated into the “Washington way” of being much more concerned about their re-election, their seats of power, their own pocketbooks, and very narrow and parochial concerns than diligently working for what is best for our nation as a whole.
I have a golfing buddy who suggests, “What this nation needs is a benevolent dictatorship.”
He may be making a good point.
This observation, by the way, does not reflect upon state and local candidates for office and office holders. For the vast majority of this group, they do have the good of their constituents in their sights. They simply have differences of opinion on what is best and how to get there.
Bob McClellan
Polson
