The Leveller: A modern day regulator

Recall? Or ctrl-alt-del?

Originally posted circa 2003

VOTE: Recall the Government?

Historically recall elections are a healthy component of American politics where usually the elected official who is the target of the recall almost never wins. We only have to look at who was against this latest recall in California to see that first, many people do not understand the recall process, that second, it is again only about power and third we deserve whatever happens as a result of the recall process.

Mostly Democrats oppose the recall, some conservatives also oppose it like George Will and call it a perversion of democracy. The perversion if it exists at all is in the ideologies of what people claim to be an ideology such as “Conservativism”. George Will is the de-facto torch bearer or wanna be Thomas Jefferson of conservatives and Rush Limbaugh is the wanna be Patrick Henry of conservatism. They both disagree with each other on the recall and yet they are both wrong. This perversion of their so called ideology is revealed from time to time. Limbaugh argues that the founding generation would be proud, a “good for you” for using the system, the power of the vote to accomplish a tantamount revolution. Meanwhile, Will states that the recall is a riot of millionaires masquerading as a “revolt of the people” and the founding generation put into Federalism the checks and balances that says no to recalls.

Meanwhile leading Democrats charge the recall is abnormal and part of a Republican conspiracy to hijack power as they did in 2000. They further claim we need “qualified” people in office. What is qualified? Career politicians like Davis himself or Cruz Bustamove? Haven’t we seen what qualified people get us. $35 billion dollar debts, failing education system, continual fraud waste and abuse. These people break our arms telling us how much we need them. As they twist harder and harder they say “this is for your own good, you must vote, we need higher voter turnout”, because this is a good thing? Or so they can claim legitimacy to their fraudulent seats of power?

A woman asked me in passing, “Did you vote?”. I said no of course not. She was shocked! She said well, you have to get out and vote its your right! What should I vote for I asked? Vote for what you think is best. I said I did vote for what I think is best. She didn’t understand. We discussed proposition 54 for example. I said I just had a discussion with someone who didn’t know what 54 was about and they voted on it. She said “that scares me”. I said why. “Well, at least you know why your not voting”, she claimed, “and I would rather have that than someone voting that didn’t care”. I retorted but what if that person did care and vote the same way. There is no difference to the outcome and demonstrates the futility of it all. As Alan Keyes once said in 2000, what choices do we really have when the people running for these offices either don’t respect the Declaration of Independence or don’t understand the principles. As these are people and propositions without scruples I cannot participate in this fraud.

George Will, who like most other traditional new deal democrats exalts the state and glorifies it kneeling before its power struck this bit of genius with his pen…

California is not a Circuit City store. A democracy with periodic elections should not have, regarding elected officials, a liberal exchange policy—any time, for any reason—for voters experiencing ``buyer’s remorse.’‘ Californians deserve to live with the choice they made when they rehired him for four more years just four months ago.

Further he goes on,

“Californians need an Ataturk…”

referring to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish nation. Is he suggesting some hyperbolic imperative and simply “politically cleanse” the state of California of its “betraying conservatives”?

Both of these conservatives claim the founding generations sentiment in their accusations. I’m continuously baffled at the disingenuity of people who seem to have some cognitive ethereal relationship with the founding generation. There is no secret what the founders would say today, they wrote it down on paper very clearly. In fact I would argue for the continual recall of any and all statists in power. This is a good thing. Perhaps it can deteriorate to the level of the Italian model with ten governments over one summer. Only in this fashion may the citizenry realize how much trouble the government causes and how little we actually need from government to assist in our daily lives.

How can people like Limbaugh argue that the founding generation would support a peaceful assuaging public dissatisfied with their elected statist leader only to elect another statist leader they will be dissatisfied with? Its clear these positions of elected office are about power. Regardless of who was elected California governor last time the state would be in the same 35 billion dollar conundrum of malfeasance as they are today. This is the sad part. And that the founding generation, who by the way, participated in a violent and armed revolution, would simply clean the entire state government in one giant sweep and start over. After all this is what they did say needed to be done from time to time because they knew then that the government they instituted would ultimately evolve into a government with too much power and there is no other road for government to follow and that we need to do the equivalent ctrl-alt-delete when our computer does not respond properly and reset the damn institution.