So, what is there to say about the GOP’s “A Pledge to America?” Short answer: Not Much! It is the quintessential poli-speak shaped, formed and refined over decades in to a supremely indefinable medium of its own. Or, as I write in We Hold These Truths,
“The politician feels quite comfortable defining whatever they want so long as you don’t insist on their telling you, precisely, what it is! After all, to press a point of principle is only to render them speechless!”
Red States Editor, Erik Erikson said “It is just meaningless stuff,” calling the proposals “an illusion” that illustrates the GOP’s lack of conviction. While the National Review flavored the mix saying that the pledge is a “shrewd” assembly of indistinguishable and annelid-like posits that even the DNC will have a hard time re-shaping to their advantage.
The Pledge is nothing more than a list of soft-targets, non-specifics and indistinguishable ambiguities. None of what is proposed is permanently binding on Congress as a whole and ultimately porous and fluid-like in its native instability. It asserts only what amounts to a series of intentions on the part of the GOP to self and incidental compliance which, when defined by their lack of self-restraint and deference to their respective oaths of office, is nothing more than a hollow and indifferent exhibition. It would have been far better for the GOP Leadership to have remained silent and simply road the current momentum than to have further politicized the naked frustrations of the Public.
The document goes on to say: “Americans need not be reminded that the challenges facing this Nation are enormous. Our economy has declined and our debt has mushroomed with the loss of millions of jobs. The social fabric that binds us as citizens, families, and communities is unraveling. Voices in and out of government whisper that our standing as the world’s leader of democracy and economic growth is ending.”
From the previous statement, we might acknowledge that the Pledge creators clearly express a cogent rendition of our current circumstances. So then, why not take advantage of its truths and attack the issues by framing a frank and deliberate strategy for this Nations reconstitution? All the GOP has done is to affirm, for the Public, their lack of capacity and fortitude for truly inspired and self-less leadership.
“Structure dictates behavior….” and so their commentary states. Well yes in deed it most assuredly does and yet none of what the Pledge defines makes mention of correcting the “structure” that has so effectively ravaged the Peoples sacred trust and sovereign rights. Where frequent was the opportunity to assert and claim a true reformation, a profound and visionary manifesto, the authors of this, this…rhetoric merely resign to a truly unremarkable proclamation.
It is not the failings of our constitutional form of government that has tender representative disparity nor is it the structure of Providential Design that is in opposition to its universal applications. NO! The greater failure rests comfortably on the flaccid virtues of this Nations Judiciary and Political Leadership for having redefined and repurposed our Form to the whisperings of ulterior and indiscreet motives. Moreover, American’s have not been the cause of suspending economic productivity nor have they been the causal force behind submission to the illusions of an emerging global market place.
It has been the compliant and malleable nature of willful miss-governance that has rewarded the American People with the mediocre status of economic vagrant. It has been the abandonment of the sacred and deferential ideal of exceptionalism that has defined the new status of America. No longer a nation driven by its national ideals and “perfect mission” but now a Nation forced to its knees by the excesses of its governments hubris and loathsome practices!
And so, having purchased a transfigured brand of political-relativism by the hand of a determined and dysfunctional organism, we have truly become the equal of the ordinary and bitter Nations of the world.
Now then, I truly have a sense of what the Patriot-Britain endured upon hearing the words of Neville Chamberlain, following his visit with Herr Hitler in 1938 , barely one year before Britain was forced to declare war on Germany.
How so very Chamberlain-esque, A Pledge to America!
So you’ve the ambition to make a Pledge do you? Start with undoing what has been done and not doing more of the same!
People find little inspiration from the repetition of error!
Curtis C. Greco, Founder
