A theoretical economy for a hypothetical nation that has a hypothetical population of people that are all highly educated, highly skilled people could not possibly be the real economy for any real nation on Earth. It can only be a fantasy economy for an imaginary nation. It is only when a nation’s economy is the right economy for the real people that live in that nation that a nation’s economy can be the right economy for any real nation.
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Look at the political map of The United States of America. The map depicts a divided, segmented and fragmented nation. But there is a problem with that political map. The nation that it depicts is an imaginary nation that only exists in peoples’ minds but which does not exist on Earth.
To see a map of the real United States of America, the one that actually exists on Earth, the one that we all actually live in, delete all of the lines on the map except for the national borders with Canada and Mexico. Now use the colors that cartographers use to depict the natural features of the land. Add in the yellow blobs that cartographers use to depict population centers. Draw in the highways, railroads, pipelines, etc.; the nation’s transportation and communications infrastructure.
Now you can see the real United States of America and the way it really functions. The one that actually exists on planet Earth and the one that we all live in. You can see a nation in which all of its parts are connected to and interconnected with its other parts. You can see nation in which all of its parts are dependent upon and interdependent with its other parts. You can see a nation in which all of its parts are dynamically interactive with each other and which function as one national system: As one nation undivided; a nation that is not segmented and not fragmented.
The real United States of America is badly in need of a Congress that is institutionally capable of ensuring that the real nation has a real federal government and that the process of governance of the nation is governance of the real United States for the citizens of The United States.
The imaginary nation that is depicted on the political map of The United States has had a congress for almost 220 years. The real United States, the one that we all actually live in, has always needed a Congress but has never had one. The need for a real Congress for our nation has never been more critical nor more urgent than it is today. Time is not on our side.
We must have a Congress that actually is and functions as The Congress of the United States of America: A national institution whose members can consider, discuss, debate and legislate governmental and public policies that are predicated on each policy being in the long term best interests of The United States as an entire nation and in the long term best interests of the citizens of The United States as an entire society.
We must have a Congress whose members can put the process of governance of the nation for the people from Washington at the top of a list of national priorities and keep it there where it belongs.
We must have a Congress whose members can remove the politics of government in Washington from the top of their list of priorities where it is today and throw it back on the garbage pile that it was pulled out of and leave it there where it belongs.
We must have a Congress that is institutionally capable of functioning in a way that makes the legislative branch the first branch among three branches of the federal government that are equal in power: A Congress that can be first by being willing and able to take the initiative and go first. We must have a Congress that is institutionally capable of taking the lead in getting face to face with the very real problems that exist in the real United States of America. We must have a Congress that is institutionally capable of playing a leadership role in finding, devising, legislating and overseeing the implementation of the best available real solutions for those very real problems.
We must have a Congress whose members can use their collective knowledge, wisdom and judgment and apply their collective talents, time and energy to formulating and writing the best legislative policies of which they are capable as an institution: Policies for the real United States of America and for the real citizens of the real nation.
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A Congress whose members function as a congregation of local and state politicians who are congregated together in Washington cannot possibly be the Congress that we and our nation must have.
A Congress whose members fiddlefaddle around playing silly damned intramural fantasy league political games of which party is up and which party is down on the Washington, DC, political seesaw plank cannot possibly be the Congress that we and our nation must have.
A Congress whose members wait for policy initiatives to come from the Executive branch so they can then chew them up, digest them and turn them into a pile of crap before they send them to the White House for the President’s signature cannot possibly be the Congress that we and our nation must have.
A Congress whose members test the political winds to determine which direction the most people are going and then follow by jumping in front cannot possibly be the Congress that we and our nation must have.
Will the real Uncle Sam please stand up?