Professional Politicians

    "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I’ve come to realize there is a very close resemblance to the first.” Ronald Reagan

    Recognizing the dangers of democracies, the Framers created a Republic. Prior to the Democrats' and Woodrow Wilson's passage of the Federal Reserve Act, the Sixteenth and the Seventeenth Amendments, socialism and career politicians had trouble gaining footholds in the United States. The Seventeenth Amendment side-tracked our republic and brought us a giant step closer to becoming a democracy.

    In a Time for Choosing, President Reagan reminded us, "Plutarch warned, "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits." History is unambiguous, all democracies have ended in bankruptcy or hyperinflation whenever the public learns to vote itself benefits. It is naive not to consider the possibility that it could happen to the United States.

    A descriptive definition of a "professional" politician is one who is more interested in securing their own lifetime career in office through repeated re-election than in fulfilling the duties of their elected office. And because they are more interested in their own re-election, they are willing to subvert the Constitution in order to use the public treasury to buy blocks of votes from the public. With the leverage provided by the income tax and the Federal Reserve Act, politicians began to employ currency inflation together with the taxing and borrowing power of the United States Treasury to use socialism as a means to buy their own re-elections, effectively turning our Republic into a democracy by surrogates.

    Where the Founders envisioned statesmen winning elections based on principles, unhampered by term limits and with the entire US treasury at their disposal, "professional" politicians began the wholesale buying of various blocks of voters. Democrats and career oriented politicians will not be part of the solution, and can be expected to oppose any efforts aimed at restoring the Constitution.