Keep socialists out of government

Democratic lawmakers persistently block the regulation of lenders who lobby and donate to their campaigns, scheming undisciplined borrowers into eventual insolvency. Rebellion sets up popular rule. A new leader, a donations recipient and close associate, reciprocates and helps them reacquire their property and recoup their losses with “bailouts.”

He also promises to cancel debt and redistribute wealth, thus stirring faction against the business and propertied class. Desensitization to law occurs including objective standards of behavior, merit, and manners (Occupy Wall Street).

Democrats play the underdog and join the people in their condemnation of those whose success is a product of frugality and self-discipline. Politicians urging self-restraint, thrift and balanced budgets are demonized while politicians who promise whatever the people demand are rewarded. These newly created big-government addicts willingly surrender certain freedoms, liberty and culture, but ultimately, they want freedom without responsibility.

The premise that free-market business creates oppression and government creates prosperity is a liberal fallacy. We are a representative republic, not a socialist state. Under a constitutional government, the power of the government is limited.

The current administration and the Democratic Party realize they can't continue to exist under a constitutional government without abolishing or rewriting it to promote their socialist agenda.

Scott Dunkirk

Cedar Rapids