Blunders of American Democracy
By
T.S.Khanna, October 17, 2023.
Foundation
For Better Government,
History shows
there are no permanent solutions to political problems. The solution of one time can become a problem
of another time. The blunders being
committed by the American Democracy are invisible to the people involved in the
system operations. They have become
anesthetized to the sensitivities and the damage caused to the society by their
routine operations and the two-party political culture they have developed.
The Founders
intended to make America (USA) a strong nation.
Currently, the nation is becoming weaker by the blunders committed
inadvertently. Most of the problems are rooted in the barbaric freedoms without
accountability; blind enthusiasm for equality; undefined and open-ended
religious freedom, laying ground work for a future civil war; easy citizenship
to foreigners and their eligibility to elected positions; and, absence of
attention to defining, protecting, and promoting non-partisan American
nation-building- interests.
Hereunder, the
blunders, as we see, are pointed out.
Discussion of their causes and solutions has been excluded.
1.
Partisan
President, bicameral congress, and the two-party system are dysfunctional and
archaic. Need a structural change in
government.
2.
Deficit
financing with a galloping debt and interest charges on the debt is nibbling
the nation like a hidden termite.
Economists have warned that on the day of reckoning the dollar could
collapse in value. Governments are not
charity institutions.
3.
Inability
of the Government to protect its borders. Look at the past fifty years of party
disputes, giving us out of control borders and estimated twenty million illegal
immigrants.
4.
No
attention to improving the quality of elected public officials and voters. There is a great need to revisit the Supreme
Court’s ruling: “One-man-one-vote”. The
most deserving talent never gets a chance on elected positions. What a loss!
5.
Allowing
the Unions to highjack the economy by demanding wages in proportion to their
power, ignoring the market value and competition. Recent strikes by various unions are a
reminder of Russia in 1919. What is
there to stop in America what followed 1919 in Russia?
6.
Look
at our Income Tax Law; nearly 50% of the households escape paying income tax. Some are being paid by the Government under
the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program.
Incidentally, top 1% of the taxpayers pay
more than 44% of the total revenue and the bottom 50% pay less than 3%
.
7.
Easy
availability of guns and weapons to the common man by selective interpretation
of the Constitution by special interest groups, resulting in horrific and
frequent crimes. Now even the police officers
are not able perform their regular duties without risk. Where is the common sense?
8.
In Public
Schools, kids grow up in an authority-defiance sub-culture, becoming
hedonistic, ungovernable adults with difficulty fitting in an organized,
disciplined society. They are not
developing the normal sense of obligation or loyalty for the family, friends or
the nation. Parents and teachers have
abdicated their responsibility of proper care in the name of freedom of
children.
9.
Up
until the 1960s, most of the immigrants were Europeans who were culturally
transformed from Church-dependency to self-dependency during the Renaissance
period. Even the Founders emphasized
self-dependency. Since the 1960s, a
significant number of non-Europeans have immigrated.
However,
the Government never programmed any cultural orientation requirements. No wonder we see a significant expansion in
social welfare program since the 1960s.
The
size of taxpaying base should preferably not drop below 90% of the citizens.
10.
The narrative: “Diversity is
strength of America”, has falsely gained currency in
America. The reality is quite the opposite; the
strength is in uniformity and unity.
Some diverse groups challenge even English as the national language and
celebrate their old country’s independence day with a great gusto while passive
on July 4th. The diverse
groups, unless brought in tune with the American political power, are weakening
the American polity.