Five Things Wrong with Today's Party in Power

With the Fourth of July here, this seems like a reasonable time to take a look at the current regime party holding power in the US.  There are many more problems within it, but here's five pertinent and prominent ones:

1. All They Value Is Money  Help for the poor?  Efforts to reduce inequality?  Education or training assistance?  Nope.  To today's government leadership, if you haven't earned a lot, there's something wrong with you.  Likewise, if the field you're in isn't high-earning, then they view you as having made foolish choices, and, again, deserve nothing.  So much for farmers, nurses, firefighters, police officers…

2. All They Value Is Power I  The will of the people?  A government by, for, and of the people?  Not so much.  A government where they make the decisions is paramount, and whatever means it takes to get to that end, they will use.

3. They Can't Handle the Truth  You may have noticed that just about any policy, statement, or anything else that comes out of the administration doesn't align with science, facts, or reality.  Nor do they care about expertise, education, or experience.  Why?  Because truth isn't something they can exploit.  Truth does not bring power—not that they can see.

4. All They Value Is Power II  The ultimate political power is that which has no checks upon it, and no balance with competing authorities.  This is primarily why Congress has been so inactive and the Supreme Court so permissive, even with both being controlled by the ruling party in power.  Much simpler to just issue presidential edicts than pass laws, even when unconstitutional.  Because the Constitution, in their view, is simply a competing authority, to be disregarded at best, destroyed at worst.

5. They Can't Handle Opposition  We'll see how far they go in this respect.  But, so far, they've at least threatened to arrest or deport anyone who gets in their way, including judges and legislators.  Fortunately, this blog is too minor to be on their radar.  Otherwise they might consider me a threat.  Then who knows what will happen.  But I'm safe.  Aren't I?  They won't come for me.  Will they?

Will they?

Happy Independence Day.

Except…independence from what?