Exporting Democracy

As we all know the United States spends a lot of money in an attempt to export democracy to several countries around the world. I am only noting that because it seems as though democracy may have failed here. On a purely fundamental level it works, we are all represented by a vote, and who we vote for should represent the beliefs that we have in the greater whole that is the United States. But what happens when the person you vote for does what they want rather than what you want. Protesting doesn’t seem to work, 70,000 people showed up to protest in Wisconsin this weekend, and it doesn’t matter. Governor Scott Walker made the Sunday morning news circuit, and he said it hasn’t changed anything. The weird thing is there no one person that you can blame for this mess, but this is what it has come to. You can blame the Fox News’ of the world for allowing their “commentators” to discuss and promote their opinions as facts. You can blame the Supreme Court that said it was okay for company’s to spend as much as they want on candidates during the election cycle. Lastly you can blame the lazy person, who only believes what they are told, and not what they know or what they researched themselves. We should be able to trust our politicians, but we can’t. To get to where they have gotten they have to bend the rules, and they have to take money from people who you are then obligated to represent, more so than the people that voted for you and believed in you. If Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin really wanted to clear the air of stop “kicking the can” as he said, he should have done an audit. It is impossible to know what and where to cut until you know what is working and what is just throwing money down the drain. Are unions and collective bargaining a strain on the state and the country? Yes. Is it fair that only the lucky that happen to be members are more protected than everyone else? No. Is it right to strip them of there collective bargaining rights? No. They have to be allowed to evolve and change as they see fit, or be forced to make a deal, which by the way they are willing to do. We have exported democracy so well that Egypt can oust a dictator, we spent years supporting, with no help from us. Libya has caught the bug and is trying to oust Gadhafi, and they have him on the run. But one puny Governor in the “Home of the brave and the Land of the Free” thinks 70,000 of his constituents’ opinions don’t matter. This is sadly disappointing, and a measure that our political leaders are destroying the idea of America and making a mockery of the Constitution. Elected leaders are not Kings or Queens, they are supposed to look out for individual citizens not company’s. Most importantly when your public opposes something you should not be allowed to do it. Otherwise what is the point of democracy?