The Myth of Change

Vigilence

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Each election cycle brings the electorate the same cast of characters. Only their names have changed. There is always the establishment character touting their indepensible experience within the system to protect the electorate and facilitate getting something done in Washington. Yet, although they have the experience they just haven't had the support needed to have accomplished change earlier and they desperately need the voter's help to make the needed changes. Then there's the outsider who has no baggage and is beholden to no one who casts himself as the noble prince of change, ready to ride his white charger to Washington and clean up the place. And, it's been said by those in the know, that to not adopt change as the central focus of one's campaign would be suicidal. Yet the very existence of this mantra from one campaign to the next seems to disprove this notion, for surely not all who have tried have failed have they? Or is it, perhaps, that the definition of change should be examined? The current Democratic candidates, curiously both members of the Washington elite, both are trying to outdo each other with successively lofty promises of change heretofore unheard of ( due to the audiences they are playing to, the extreme left of their party). The promises they tout amount to not just change but fundamental change. Remember, the last Presidential election was about changing how business was conducted in Washington, in more civil terms. A small change. Yet now, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both wish to make fundamental changes to our entire society, from health care to defense, civil rights to restructuring the Supreme Court, "fixing" NAFTA to redefining the amount of money you get to come home with at the end of the day. Now, call me crazy but aren't people dying to get accross our borders now to join this great country and willing to break the law, live in anonnimity and fear of discovery just to be part of the American dream? Is not America the best place to be if you are a person or corporation due to the lower tax rates we enjoy? Isn't American culture and language the leader throughout the world as one travels? Isn't America the most generous country in the world in human and national aid? The list goes on. Can improvements be made? Yes, of course. But do we really need the kind of fundamental change the Democratic candidates are proposing? I think not. In fact the only real change they care about is changing who's in power in the town they so deperately with to change. They want to change it to a city dominated by Democrats with themselves at the helm as President.