One important item not mentioned in the constitution is the concept that the government will be run by two gangs. The legislative body could now be replaced by an appropriate number of rubber stamps, each with an R or D on it. The executive branch, whose loyalty should be to the American people, owes his loyalty instead to an R or D gang. He often writes the laws, which pass if a majority of the correct stamp are in the legislature. The Judicial branch, which is supposed to rule on the law, is becoming a group loyal not to the law, but to the R or D gang which elected it.
L. Neil Smith proposes that the two parties are identical, and should be known as one, the Boot on Your Neck (BOYN) party. I contend that they are still two, like two street gangs, for instance the Crips and the Bloods, but the effect is the same. To support either will have the same effect, control by street gangs with little care for our welfare. Neither have any ideology other than to oppose each other, fight their turf wars, and get votes by saying something different than the other gang does.
The recent nomination of Miguel Estrada to a judgeship is absolute proof of the above. When a group of senators votes on whether a man could be a good judge solely on the criteria of whether they have an R or D stamped on their forehead, then there is no possibility that any of them are voting on whether or not he would be a good judge.
As we would be better served by a legislature with 100 senators from 100 different parties, and 435 representatives from 435 parties, and a non-partisan president, I will begin by never voting for any R or D again. This theme will recur in this blog, as it seems to me like the only answer.