I heard Senator Lindsay Graham (Republican) in the Senate hearing room for hearings about advise and consent regarding a supreme court Justice candidate yesterday,
comment in reaction to Democratic senators arguing that the hearing was
unfair due to the lack of paperwork not forwarded, or given late the
night before and paperwork the white House was holding back saying:
"If you lost the election you do not get the right to pick judges."
How
someone can be a Senator and literally redefine what democracy means is
unreal. In the past 10 years beginning with Obama's administration till
now; I believe America has so drastically changed with politicians
engaged in such divisive behavior much alike the Civil War days during
the early 1860s. The comment Graham made actually means that when you
lose you are no longer allowed to weigh in, that your opinions
representing half of America are no longer relevant and here I was
thinking that elected officials are supposed to represent all of
America. So, now we are in an age where only if you win, do your
opinions and decisions matter. Should that philosophy take hold in all
human relationships no one would be married, there would be no students
in classes, there would be no peace treaties, no cures for diseases and
so on because only those in charge can ever be right, only those who own
a company or sell a product, etc. can ever be in charge and make a
decision and the rest of the world would be irrelevant or enslaved and
have to go along and accept with no choice. The concept of customer
service would no longer exist as there would be no need.
I
find that what has taken place in American politics to become only
about winning and losing and so I wonder, what do you need people in a
country for since they no longer matter. After all, aren't these
elected officials supposed to represent the voice of the people and when
that voice is rejected outright because some of them have "lost" does
that then give the others the right to "rule."
Steven
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