This morning I was looking at a multitude of videos and reading articles from many organizations all calling for the removal of the current Congressional population this November. But, I ask, “Replaced with whom and how will the removal take place?” Is it going to be with more of the same type “body of representatives” using the same process we have been subjected to by the two-party system over and over again? Patriots - Please! We need some new thinking, don't we?
What seems to escape these organizations and authors is that the political party apparatus we have now in place is the actual problem; not necessarily the individuals operating within it. We naturally gravitate to thinking in terms of “two party.” Maybe we should focus on the process instead.
We at GOOOH know from history that on 11/03/10 we will wake up to find that America has re-elected 80-90% of The House. Huh? Really?... Really! This will be the result of our two-party system that holds an absolutely toxic death-grip on our election process. Candidate selection, ballot access, gerrymandering the local voting districts, fixing the primaries - all these processes have a common denominator - the two parties. The two parties restrict our ability to effectively clean up Washington and send honorable and decent citizens from our own ranks to Congress to represent us (Hello Delaware). But we don't need a new party. We need to get back to the original process as laid out by the Founding Fathers! It will do the job.
It is apparent to me that in the current system even if a representative wanted to do the right thing and represent the constituents back home (and I believe that some genuinely do), the party system indoctrinates the susceptible and marginalizes the more upstanding. The current system is nirvana for the vain and aspiring while at the same time is a battlefield for the truly honorable. The system is corrupt and quite corrupting for all who experience it. It is fatiguing and disheartening for authentic public servants. It is exhilarating and uplifting for career politicians. The two-party system has a stranglehold and only we the people can break that grip. This isn’t necessarily about any one member of Congress. It is about the process put in place by the parties over time. We don't need another party. We need to restore the authentic process. Time to RESET!
I believe that there is no questioning the parties’ deliberate motivation - the perpetuation of their control of OUR representative government. At their disposal is money and power destined to corrupt. It is by their design. Few resist. Merit goes out the window and tenure rules the day (hello term limits). Does the current system often promote persons into positions of power based on being a party lapdog for an extended period of time versus having real merit? For example, if Republicans regain the majority in The House come November, watch the process of the selection of the Speaker – a classic partisan process by design. The top person in The House - the person 2nd in line for the Presidency, by the way - is usually a party lapdog! Yikes!
They may all serenade us during the campaign as being OUR representative, but we many times hear them singing a completely different tune as soon as the get inside the Beltway. During the campaigns with all the patriotic fervor, waving of the flags and the tolling of the bells, we get fooled. Truth be known, they will always make promises and take our money to reclaim - or maintain - power. That’s the reason that they exist and America falls for it every time! Congress has an 11% approval rating yet we re-elect 90% of them every time. The system is rigged by the parties - claiming to serve the people then serving themselves instead. It is beyond despicable.
It is (past) time to replace ALL 435 members of The House. It is the only certain cure - much like abstinence is the only guaranteed way to avoid pregnancy. Our government needs a sure-fire cure. Once the entire House of Representatives is replaced by decent, honorable and genuine public citizen-servants, there will be no more co-opting (as Trent Lott recently said) of the new members. They need to ALL be new members. No one would be left to do the co-opting! Imagine if all of those brand new Representatives have the common commitment to non-partisan posturing, term limits and no concern for campaign money, then “the way the system works” will be restored to its original intent; go, represent, then go home. GOOOH GOOOH GOOOH!
We can call for freedom, call for responsibility, call for honesty, call for honor, call for accountability and/or call for the very heads of the politicians currently occupying our Congressional seats. In my experience, the calls will go unanswered in the torrent of the current political atmosphere; drowned out by the din of the currently corrupted system. Only Party, Special Interests and Political Careers will be heard from in the current environment. That is, UNLESS the people (the real power base) take back control of the entire process. It can be done. The Founders gave us the tools to do so. We need to use them…. or we will lose them!
To conclude, the current party-controlled system in The House is like a cancer. It needs major surgery, not a BandAid. As with cancer surgery, the cancer AND the surrounding (seemingly uninfected) tissue are completely removed in order to provide a “clear field” for healing. We need a clear field in The House. The entire House must be replaced – and replaced all at once - (including some of the good "tissue") for the healing of our Republic to even begin. It is obvious to me that only through a complete, simultaneous replacement of all members of The House will an effective restoration of our Republic occur.
Many react to this idea of GOOOH by saying, “But, but but - I like my representative.” What this does not seem to consider is that they ALL must go to make sure that we got all of “the cancer!” I believe that even if I like my Congressman, great personal sacrifices (such as including the representatives that I like in this GOOOH replacement process) are needed to make our Republic whole. Let the good ones (if they are really that good) run for The Senate. Only when the last remnant of "the cancer" is COMPLETELY gone can the real healing even begin.
How is this possible? It begins with a GOOOH membership. JOIN NOW. Go to www.goooh.com, join and call others to do likewise! Then go and witness the GOOOH process at a Mock Selection Session near you. I pray then you will see - as I did - that this process will do the job that everyone agrees needs doing. Please join now. Times-a-wastin’!
