Balanced Government

So the venerable polling outfit Rasmussen just released a report today about the relative temperature of prospective Illinois voters.  Illinois is our home, and is our focus as we bring our message of balanced government to the people. 

It’s a beautiful state, rich in history and resources, and, it appears, full of many dissatisfied citizens.

Beautiful, but with an undercurrent of anger

It has been said that this is an anti-incumbent election we’re approaching, and if that is so, it is a result of a couple of simple things.

First, the most important take-aways from the poll: an astounding 65% are angry at the policies of the federal government, and 60% think most members of Congress don’t care about what their constituents think.

Why?  To answer the 65% response, I think it is because people have had control taken away from them from too many matters that properly belong to them.  In other words, Washington has rendered most Americans spectators in the things that matter to them and their everyday lives, and this is embittering more and more people.  This is a result of imbalanced government.

That 60% believe their representatives don’t care what they think goes hand-in-hand with this.  If domestic matters which should be made locally are now being made by distant over-reaching government, one could expect that the percentage in an environment of political parity would be 50% or so.  That the actual figure is 60% says something about the mood of the people and their tolerance for distant external government.

It’s against this backdrop that we’re looking for your help and involvement.  Until we insist that the matters that relate to the ordinary course of our lives (things other than national defense, borders, foreign treaties and objects which properly belong to the government in Washington D.C.) are under our local influence, we’ll continue to see disaffection, lack of trust, and anger.  Once we begin demanding proper balance between the units of government, we’ll get representatives who govern by those principles, and begin the renewal so sorely needed of American government.