MOB CONTROLS CONGRESS

The technical age has brought unexpected consequences to the world of politics; at least I think that the growing influence of small radical groups, of which we are all aware, is a product of the technical age. Of course, the part media plays is important but is amplified by communication technology, which is, in one interpretation, really the point of this blog post.  Something happens or someone does something of note in a remote part of the world; instantaneously, we may or may not know about it depending on whether or not someone with access to a computer types a few words or publishes a cell phone digital picture. That sentence reeks with technology we hardly notice now but we did not have just a few years ago. What remains the same is the cascade that develops starting with the nature of notable things, that interest and encourage people to give small matters notoriety by those who just happen to be there, and the greed of those who market whatever is exposed. The breadth of distribution of insignificant matters has changed directly related to the ease and speed of distribution.

If there is only one or two raciest, for example, in a group of 100 hundred people and you suddenly have the opinion of 330,000,000 people who can easily communicate—and do—the result is significant. Thus, we have a radical group, where before the internet and other technical communication “advances”, that “group” would have not been recognized, therefore non-existent. As an example of a real and recent incident, Clevin Bundy, a rancher, was illegally grazing government grassland without paying a fee. The media inundated us with picture of men walking around with cocked out arms or with guns pointed at federal law enforcement agents. These gun toting men and women came from all over the country. The impression around the United States and the entire world was that all the people in that state were bearing arms against our federal government and that both men and women toted big guns; however, properly conducted interviews reveal these people came from as far away as New York and group pictures showed only a rare woman, thus, amplifying and distorting a trivial incident even further. Rather than believe the interviews, right wing media distorted the incident by favoring the negative, which they treated in the same light as they treated the incident itself. In reality, if the incidence happened before all this technological advancement, it would not even have been news worthy.

Radical groups in the United States Congress benefit from this inflated attention, which is just the opposite of what it should be. A small group of people with a radical view, a lynch mob or a group in congress for example, does not reflect the manner of law enforcement adopted by the entire community. The attitude of the community or congress may or may not support the mob objective—punish a criminal or pass a good law. However, the “collective” American way involves a trial to determine guilt and depend on the judgment of a jury of the criminals peers. A committee formed in Congress to make a judgment, which we expect Congress the entire Congress to moderated by an independent vote. Something has happened in our government and this moderation seems to have disappeared or at least seems to be disappearing. In my judgment, this relates to Party Politics.

Members of the two major parties as they exist and function in today’s Washington each  vote in unison, they vote as one voice not because that is how they believe but rather because it is how the leadership believes; therefore, they obviously have given up their individuality in the name of the “party”. The reality is the Political Parties have given up their identity to small groups of radicals within that Party. Everyday we evidence suggesting the Tea Party controls the Republican caucus; thus, control the entire government. Divide the people of the United States into two groups that is the parties. Now divide each Party into three groups, the radials, moderates, and the compromisers. By creating a situation where the radicals have just enough followers that they can out-vote the moderates and the compromisers, voting the party line is voting the radical groups line and destroys the purpose of the government; thus, the elected representatives have allowed the “lynch” mob to control the court.

This is bad government and logically is an offshoot of technology. Only a small group of radicals is so naive as to think we can live and grow as a country without government thus agree that we can survive without paying taxes; that small group is the Tea Party and as of Nov. 4, 2014, they control the Republican party thus control our government. It seems most people, metaphorically, are content to set in front of TV watching a football game drinking a can of beer rather than vote; because they have heard repeatedly their vote does not matter and the government always works against them. This is verified when they see huge crowds of people with guns fighting the government protecting one their own. They know in their hearts that their vote will not make a difference so why vote. All politicians are crooks so voting does not matter because their government does not matter.  They never seem to reconcile this with the idea that the Teas Party will lie, cheat, and steal to get control of what does not matter—go figure.    

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