BIPARTISANSHIP: A GREAT AMERICAN MYTH IN TODAY'S POLITICS

Bipartisanship is constipated in the USA today on State levels as well as Federal.  In Wisconsin, the blockage to movement is Governor Scott Walker whose idea of negotiation is 'I won the election; we do it MY way (the way the Koch brothers want it to be.)'.

When bi-partisan negotiations fail, we see, as we currently have throughout our world today, non-violent protests (when the citizenry is lucky) protests in which the protesters are killed by the  powers at the top, civil wars, assassinations, sneaky deals, lies and false information is circulated, and truth and fairness are terms from our past.

In August 2010,  Jeremy C Young wrote an article for the History News Service where the basic message was Obama's attempt at bipartisanship doesn't work.  What is not focused on in that article is that it is necessary for the public to see what the Republicans are really doing that is different than what they are saying. 

On March 5, 2011, Jim Angle, for FoxNews.com writes that "Obama Faces Bipartisan Criticism on Energy Policies.  That message is that America should fight harder to develop domestic sources of energy.  Missing is the point that they could renew the restrictions that were allowed to elapse about what Wall St can do with commodities to manipulate price.

WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DEMOCRACY?

It was painful enough to see pictures of the devastation in Iraq, Afghanistan and places distant from us here in the States.  However, things have changed.  Governor Scott Walker is acting like an autocratic dictator.  To the TV news viewer, it appears nothing is being done to curb his terrible governance. 

When a State legislator cannot gain access to his office and is thrown to the ground like a criminal when he attempts it, we have to ask ourselves,  "How can this happen here?"  Feeling helpless in not understanding American laws that allow such behavior, I join the rest of the middle class in frustration.  What has become of the Republican party for whom I had great respect as I was growing up?:  What has become of the election process, that people use it as a way of getting personal monies from the donations to a campaign they know they will never win.  How can the lies persist about Obama as being not patriotic, non-American, and worse; how can they be spread by a minister who professes to be a competent candidate to be President of this country?

But the real question is not why are we here.  It is,  "How do we get our democracy back? "