Alex
Miller for US Senate
The two party system has been pushed beyond the limits of reason and
common sense. If politicians ever used to differ on the best way to
serve the interest of the U.S., they now only differ on what will best
serve their own careers.
Foreign affairs have turned into a political tool to advance personal
careers. The crusades in the Middle East are an excellent opportunity
to disrupt a culture of imperialism and promote the freedom of all
people. Instead, the opportunity to free a people from rule by kings or
mullahs, who are constantly starting wars and promoting terrorism, is
being squandered by self serving politicians with no regard for their
fellow man beyond what use their fellow man may be to these politicians.
It seems that politicians aspire to be dictators or kings. It matters
not now, why we chose to fight the war in the manner we are fighting
it. The U.S. did not start this war. But, our politicians are not all
pursing the best outcome for this war for the U.S., many are
undermining the interest of the U.S. for their personal
benefit.
They have said things like "the war is lost", simply to embarrass the
other political party with a U.S. defeat in war and the deaths our
soldiers in battle.
A democratic example in the Middle East would bring peace and
prosperity to a region currently run by bandits. Men and women could
have access to equal protection under the law, and the freedom to
practice a religion or not as pleases them. But, because someone would
get the credit if this occurred, some politicians who would not
benefit, are seeking to undermine our efforts there. In fact
it
seems they wish to adopt for the U.S. a Middle Eastern model, whereby
the most manipulative and least principled rule by fear, intimidation
and force.
At home, judges used to believe that the best way to serve the people
was to provide an unbiased interpretation of the law. Now, judges have
joined the political process and are judging the laws, rather than
applying them. Both liberals and conservatives want this to continue,
but in a way that benefits them. The people are left without an
impartial judiciary and disputes are being settled by politicians with
agendas rather than impartial jurist who will apply existing law even
if they disagree with it. How can honest people commerce with each
other if the laws are malleable and dependent upon the whim of judges? "Yet,
notwithstanding all this, if the laws be continually despised and
disregarded, if (our) rights to be secure in (our) persons and
property, are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob, the
alienation of (our) affections from the Government is the natural
consequence; and to that, sooner or later, it must come."
(A. Lincoln)
All of these issues and more are most eloquently addressed in the US
Constitution. Understand it before you dismiss it. Then vote for people
who will support and defend it.
Alex Miller for U.S. Senate
