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America Decides
By Robert Thomason
The everlasting, never-ending presidential election of 2008 is almost over. Voters are totally worn out with the campaign and I'm sure would support a change in our election law to force the professional political class into a much abbreviated election season. However, reality tells us that on November 5, 2008, regardless of who wins the presidential election; the 2012 presidential election will start. Now there is a thoroughly depressing thought. Every four years politicians tell us that its time to change because America is on the wrong path and they in their infinite wisdom have some great brand new program to fix everything that ails us. As an observer of elections since 1960, I can tell you that there is nothing new being proposed by either side in most American presidential elections. The candidates serve up their proposals in new packages, but in reality there is not much new or different from what we have seen from both parties in past elections. The debate revolves around a fundamental question that is as old as the United States of America. This question is: "Will Americans continue to be a self-governing people or will we turn our governence over to a professional elite that will rule from Washington, D.C.?" Ronald Reagan made an epic speech on this topic in 1964 which launched his historic political career. He supported the small government philosophy which the founding fathers had designed into our constitutional system when they created our representative republic. In 1964, the voters choose to move away from that philosophy by electing Lyndon Johnson and a supermajority Democratic Congress to put in place the "Great Society" which featured the largest government intervention in citizens' private lives since the Roosevelt administration. In 1980, the voters moved back toward the self-governing philosophy by defeating Jimmy Carter for a second term and placing Ronald Reagan in the White House. President Reagan brought with him a governing philosophy not seen in the presidency since Calvin Coolidge. This presidential election has many unique aspects to it, but the political argument revolves around this very same issue - "How much power will the voters give the federal government to make decisions that rule our everyday lives?" Only the voters know the answer to this vital question. |
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