A New Day in Politics

In a recent conversation with a dear friend, I offered the opinion that politics in America is changing. While citizens have long been dubious of politicians, there has been a willingness to watch them with amazement, then ridicule their disconnect from reality. There are untold numbers of jokes, quips, and reflections on their competence, or veracity floating around the time-space continuum. Americans in the past desired to focus their attentions on their lives and let those “darned politicians” do “whatever it is they do”. As we’ve noted before; those days are coming to an end; and we now we have the documentation that confirms the political environment has changed.

Pollster Scott Rasmussen has identified that there are two kinds of people in the country: the “political class” and “everyone else”. While those who cringe at Mr. Rasmussen’s reports; and his prognostications for politicians representing the political class, they cannot doubt the fact that his polls have been extraordinarily accurate during the past two election cycles by using this model. Nor can they doubt their accuracy during the current mid-term cycle appears to perpetuate that trend.

Rasmussen notes that while the perspectives between the “mainstream” and the “political class” are profoundly different, the differences are easy to delineate. He explains: “Americans don’t want to be governed from the left or the right. They want, like the Founding Fathers, to largely govern themselves with Washington in a supporting—but not dominant—role. The tea party movement is today’s updated expression of that sentiment.”*

Rasmussen ask these three questions:

1.Generally speaking, when it comes to important national issues, whose judgment do you trust more – the American people or America’s political leaders?
2.Some people believe that the federal government has become a special interest group that looks out primarily for its own interests. Has the federal government become a special interest group?
3. Do government and big business often work together in ways that hurt consumers and investors?
If you answer you trust the political leaders more than the American people, refuse to acknowledge the Government has become it’s own special interest group, or refuse to acknowledge that Government and business work together in ways that harm the average American- any two of these three positions qualifies you as a politico, and out of the mainstream of the American perspective.

While Rasmussen’s detractors ridicule the simplicity of these questions, they are accurate in exposing the divide in the two perspectives. One can logically reply to those detractors that Rasmussen has been the most accurate pollster for the past six years by using this model. The pollster has found the true divide between the American people.

The disdain of the politicos for the main-streamers is evidenced by their attempts to castigate those main-streamers as bigots, racist, or rubes. This explains why the Democrats have insulted, assaulted, and committed hate crimes against salt of the earth people, with an especially violent focus on black main-streamers. Indeed, the Democrat Party carries the majority of the politicos within it’s ranks They have awakened the sleeping giant with their violence and over-bearing attempts to silence the “vocal majority”.

Rasmussen notes:
“While 53% of Mainstream voters see the Republican congressional agenda as in the mainstream, 81% of Political Class voters regard it as extreme.” **

In fact, “The Political Class. . . has dramatically different views of the agendas of the two parties from what Mainstream voters think. Ninety-one percent (91%) of the Political Class say the Democratic agenda in Congress is in the mainstream, but 70% of Mainstream voters see that agenda as extreme.”
It’s apparent that the Democrat Party has become the water bearers of the political class- and will reap the repercussions in the up-coming elections.

But there’s an even bigger dynamic taking place in the political arena. Americans have stopped laughing, and are determined to take an active role in governing this nation. Gone are the days of head-wagging when politicians refuse to represent their constituency. The consequences of cronyism is far more substantive than becoming the punchline of a sardonic joke. Indeed, the day is coming quickly where a perceived Quisling will lose his political life: and rightly so! Citizens have concluded that the politicians need supervision and that they must actively participate in their oversight. They resent that fact, but like good adults they are resigned to the task.. The politicians will once again become public servants and the public will be the managers. Any politician who takes exception to that dynamic should seek employment elsewhere: and they should start looking now.

Morning in America has already noted the significance of the Tea Party movement, but there are other indications within American society. Democrats, Independents, and “No party Affiliation” voters are joining the ranks of the Republican Party. Republican voters are joining the Republican Executive Committees in droves, and have quickly become galvanized members within those ranks.

There is a new day in America, it has arrived. The day where the voters are paying attention. The day where politicians can no longer give a speech to placate the masses- to pacify them with unkept promises. The day where a political party can use violence to intimidate their constituents. Those days are gone, and we say good riddance. While the politicos see that day as a threat to their paradigm, the mainstream see it as a rebirth of the America principles the nation was founded upon.

It’s time for patriotic Americans to find use for their talents, their energy to make a difference- it is time to motivate ones’ self to take a stand for freedom. Like the days of our founding, it’s time to stop talking and start doing. Once in our history we had Minutemen- average citizens who were ready to defend their freedoms in a minutes’ notice. We’ve had a decade, three decades notice. Complacency will destroy this nation as surely as a bomb or an invading army.

It is Morning in America, will you sacrifice the future of your nation, your children, your grandchildren for a little “me time”? Are you willing to join the fight; to diminish the politicos, to stop the violence against citizens, the Marxism: or do you choose to sleep in selfish slumber? Will you or will you not take a stand and proclaim “there may be a day when Americans become complacent and watch as their nation crumbles at their feet, but it won’t happen on my watch! Not this day.”

The time is now.

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*America’s Insurgent Pollster- The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal

**Rasmussen: Voters Oppose Extremists
Posted by Jeremy Lott Real Clear Politics August 13, 2010