Road to the White House

It seems that the electoral systems in Michigan and Florida are no longer under the control of their respective state electoral commissions, but under the jurisdiction of the Democratic National Committee. The DNC believes that they have the authority to dictate when states can hold elections, and that they are solely responsible for choosing and electing the next President, it sounds as if it is a return to the days of Tammany Hall and political bosses, something that history has stated that died out by the mid-sixties. Obviously bad habits and old corruptions are hard to brake, even in the days when so many candidates are “Agents of Change”, talk is cheap and so is the price of the minds and conciseness of the American voter, it’s being sold to the highest bidder and the smoothest talker, if the individuals and the states do not conform to the will of the DNC then those people; no matter how many or how few, they are told they do not count in the process and that they will be excluded from participating in their own convention because they “did not permission to vote before the official kick-off of the primary season”, with presidential campaigns lasting more than a year already what is a few more days or weeks, to start a political process that is already to long.

            With so much talk of the Republican Party disenfranchising voters it seems that the DNC has disenfranchised two entire states, no political party has the right to dictate the time or method by the states choose the delegates or anyone else to serve the residents of the state that they represent, the delegates serve at the will of the people not at the will of the political party with whom the have associated themselves. If the DNC is allowed to enforce their will upon Florida and Michigan then we as a nation will have taken a step back to the time of tyrants and virtual representation, to a time before the Declaration of Independence, to a time of un-redressed grievances. This form of favoritism and corruption must be stopped before it is allowed to grow to the point where political bosses can throw out the decisions of other states if they do not fall into the desired profile of what a few feel is the right way of doing things.

            It is time that the DNC and the GOP release their ties on the free election process by which we as a people choose our government, the time of the two party system is coming to and end, and the time when men and women of conviction whom seek not their own greatness but the greatness of the nation is at hand, for if we fail to prevent political parties from controlling our electoral process then we are doomed to fail as a free people. We must remember the words of General George Washington “for if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.”