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Revising the American Government
by Matthew Rader Tuesday, Sep. 30, 2003 at 7:31 PM
mdr154@stu.aii.edu Pittsburgh

A Return to the People

Revising the American Government

A Return to the People


If you take a look around in the days leading up to a Presidential election you will see one main division, a division dividing people between supposedly differentiating political party lines. The people are divided, democrat vs. republican, between two sides of what they think matters in a presidential election when in reality they are exactly the same coin. People must open their eyes beyond these supposed party lines and realize that the problems are not within the administration, democrat or republican, so much as they are within the entire federal governmental institution itself.

The problem with today's federal government is that no matter the current administration's ideology the voices of the individual people are not realized. People like to think that if they vote democrat after a republican president makes a horrible go of the office that things will turn out better. While this may hold some truth the reality is that nothing really changes as both parties are governed by the same bi-partisan politics resulting in similar decisions regardless of what party leads the white house. Gone are the days when a truly liberal democrat is able to weld to reform into the nation and gone are the days when conservative republicans are truly conservative. The problems in today's federal government lie not within the parties but within the system itself.

We need reform and we need it now. We need a return to a government that speaks to, for, and of the people. Imagine a government where the individual voice does matter and where your elected officials can actually make an impact on your life. When was the last time the president actually made a decision that truly spoke relevance to the middle classes voice?

I'm calling on a return to statehood and return to decentralized government. A return that will allow the individual to actually have the chance of getting their voice heard. As has been seen with this current administration it is glaringly obvious that corruption at the federal level runs rampant. This is why we must decentralize into smaller more locally based means of governance as government on a smaller, more local, level is much easier to root out and manage than it is in the vast over whelming grip that a powerful federal establishment lends too.

The system needs a change. The problems are now glaringly obvious to any of us whom are willing to push aside party propaganda. This isn't about democrats or republicans, this is about being Americans with a voice. We must change and we must call on a return to guidance upon the very fabric of American Democracy, the US Constitution.

Things need to change as times as times have become dangerously monotonous.

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