America's one party system

When a supposedly free and open political system ceases to consist of legitimate opposition, the resulting government becomes more totalitarian and less representative. I fear that just such a transformation has crept into American politics during the past few decades.

According to MSNBC,

• Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton spent time with child survivors of Asia’s tsunami on Monday.

On Meet the Press yesterday, John McCain threw his support behind Hillary Clinton:

• I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good president.

In fact, the Democrat party and the Republican party agree with one another on many more points than they would have you believe, and unfortunately neither of them seem to be very interested in practicing the Constitution as intended or in honoring the God-given freedoms bestowed upon the American people by God.

1. Both seem to agree that the federal government can and should mandate Americans to contribute to government managed retirement accounts.
2. Both parties have gone along with a federal entitlement plan to distribute prescription drugs to senior citizens.
3. Both parties seem to favor foreign military intervention into situations where no direct threat to the United States exists (Bosnia, Somalia, Desert Storm, Vietnam, post Saddam Iraq).
4. Both parties have found justification in the Constitution for sending tax dollars around the world for charity purposes.
5. Neither can decipher the 9th and 10th amendments clearly enough to understand that the federal government was never meant to establish "appropriate" cultural or social standards for the country.

The list goes on and on, but the point soon becomes clear. The campaign rhetoric we get from our politicians paints a picture of bitter partisan divide along rigid ideological lines. Unfortunately, in too many cases, these politicians argue from Unconstitutional premises, thereby making both sides of the debate illegal and illegitimate.