As we can discern, America’s venerable Founders had idealistic, if not, pollyannish, expectations in their creation of a proposed and radically new republic, beneficially intended to be free of King, established Church, privileged birth and one purposed to be, “by and for the people.” They optimistically foresaw a newly created nation of informed and dedicated citizens who would agreeably debate the controversial issues of the day, the results of which would be of reference to a polity, dedicated to devising policies ” by and for the people.” One illustration of their unfounded optimism and grandiose expectations is revealed by a future history that featured hostile division and bitter rivalry between dissident parties.
The prescient Founders prudently created three branches of government, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial, in which such tri-partite polity would serve to dynamically eschew the historically deplorable European history of absolute and autonomous rule. Under that endeavor, they tactically conceived of a system, called “checks and balances,” exercisable by either branch of said tri-partite government, to deter abuse of authority by any one of the others. The right to vote (by “citizens “as then defined) would be equal, added to which, fundamental constitutional citizen rights were provided as the Nation’s grand political recipe for governance. Among other requirements and, notably, relevant to the particular )impetus for this writing, was a constitutional requirement that nominees for the Presidential Cabinet, be subject to the approval of an inquisitional Senate (i.e., “Advice and Consent”).
The all-encompassing political recipe, as conceived, was inarguably pragmatic, and equitable; nevertheless, any recipe’s success is dependent upon its appropriate implementation and, thematically, the proper incorporation of its prescribed ingredients.
In its lifetime of slightly shy of two and one-half centuries, the American Nation has experienced results, notably short of the Founder’s idealistic conception. At present, the incoming office of the President is to be occupied by an empirically demonstrated, incapable, amoral, and egoistic demagogue who has declared his opposition to its Constitution and his firm intention to rule as a dictator. a legislative branch largely composed of his acolytes and politicians more concerned about political power and Presidential approval than their more appropriate obligation to their constituencies and to the Nation; the legal supervision of a Supreme Court, improperly accepting political issuers for judicial determination, a practice inarguably contradictory to the fundamental constitutional requirements of “Separation of Powers,” and, sadly, a High Court, notably not entirely immune to political influence and sub-Rosa bribery,.
The publically televised broadcast of the constitutionally mandated exercise of Senatorial responsibility ( i.e., “Advice and Consent”) to fully vet the incoming President’s impactful choices for Cabinet positions appears analogously demonstrative of a meaningless dog and pony show. Contrary to their fiduciary responsibility (to ensure the proper character, experience, and objective capability of the Presidentially selected candidates), it can be seen to be far from their constitutionally established (‘recipe”) and pragmatic purpose. The Senators from the opposing party (the Democrats) seem to be making inquiries regarding the relevant characterological and experiential attributes of the respective nominees for Presidential Cabinet, while, tactically, the newly elected President’s party (Republicans) merely asking “soft-ball” questions, devised to elicit Senate approval of the President’s self-interested selections, This significant procedure, designed to vitally assure the capability and appropriate nature of the proposed Cabinet Secretaries is visibly being conducted, not untypically, in the manner of a meaningless exercise; Such portentous “game-show,” is, regrettably in sync with the overall National failure to observably follow the salutary recipe construed by the Founders.
Recipes for political success, like analogous recipes for the preparation of fine cuisine, determinatively require the inclusion of qualitatively appropriate ingredients. The idealistic expectations of the Founders’ political recipe for their conceived Nation, have thus far, not been realized and in empirical reality, have been “botched up”; due, principally, to the notable absence of the required (“Jeffersonian”) quality of its ingredients requiring an adequately educated and improperly informed citizenry.
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