{"id":275381,"date":"2023-11-06T08:05:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T08:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=275381"},"modified":"2023-11-07T07:19:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T07:19:34","slug":"does-any-member-of-the-us-government-represent-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=275381","title":{"rendered":"Does Any Member of the US Government Represent Americans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org Nov 5, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>US Representative Matt Gaetz \u00a0has courage and principles, for the most part good ones.<\/p>\n<p>It was Gaetz who had the courage and leadership ability to get rid of Rino McCarthy as Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n<p>It is Gaetz who understands that hardly any member of Congress in either party represents Americans.\u00a0 Instead, they represent the military\/security complex\u2019s power and profits, the profits of the pharmaceutical companies,\u00a0 the profits of agri-business (ethanol for example), the profits of Wall Street, the profits of energy, timber, and mining, and so forth.\u00a0 And especially, the US Congress represents the artificial state of Israel and all of Israel\u2019s agendas.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Matt Gaetz himself cannot escape having to support an occupier of Palestinians\u2019 land, claiming that it is Israel\u2019s.\u00a0 The fact that even a brave man like Matt Gaetz has to support an aggressor against a people abandoned by the \u201cmoral\u201d West shows how captured the US government is at all levels by vested monied interests.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz along with the entirely of the US Congress and the President \u00a0are purchased by the billions of dollars that American taxpayers are forced to hand over to Israel each year.\u00a0American taxpayers are forced to give Israel annually billions of dollars that are used to purchase our government.\u00a0Israel, considered a rich country, does not need foreign aid, but any member of Congress who does not vote for\u00a0 Israel\u2019s billions finds in his next election a challenger financed by Israel\u2019s billions\u00a0 and himself a victim of Israel\u2019s slander machine. The same thing happens if you vote against an excessive military\/security budget or against the agendas of powerful organized interests. \u00a0A government whose election is financed by interest groups has to represent those interest groups.<\/p>\n<p>So, obviously, the solution is not term limits on members of Congress.\u00a0 The solution is to take the money that Congress gives Israel to buy our government out of politics along with the ability of corporations to purchase the US government, thanks to an \u00a0unconstitutional ruling of the \u00a0US Supreme Court that it is a \u201cfree speech right\u201d\u00a0 for corporations and foreign interests to purchase the US government for their own use.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it. The US government is a purchased entity. It has nothing whatsoever to do with American interests or protecting the interests of the American people.<\/p>\n<p>What needs to be done?<\/p>\n<p>Matt Gaetz, the conservatives and libertarians naively \u00a0think that term limits is the answer.\u00a0 This is another of Americans\u2019 insouciant mistakes. The real solution is to extend, not limit, the terms of members of Congress and to give Congress the police powers\u00a0 on which Congress\u2019 enemy\u2013the executive branch\u2013has a monopoly. The corrupt Justice Department can frame up and arrest \u00a0members of Congress, and Congress has no corresponding powers.<\/p>\n<p>The founding fathers distrusted democracy because of their fear of ignorant mobs. For this reason they limited the terms of US Representatives to two years.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0So US Representatives and Senators are turned into whores prostituting themselves for reelection money as soon as they are elected. It is never possible for Congress or the President to represent American\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n<p>This is because of money.\u00a0 The solution is to take out of politics the ability of corporations, Israel, and foreign interests to purchase the services of the US Government, which as a result of interest group funding of election campaigns turns the US government into a whore.\u00a0 The Founding Fathers should have lengthened the terms of Congress and the President, prohibited all outside money from financing election campaigns, and financed at taxpayer expense free speech forums for candidates to debate their differences.\u00a0 They also made a mistake by creating a legislative body too large for a common interest to emerge.\u00a0This failure of the Founding Fathers doomed America to the control of vested interests.\u00a0 The Democrats when they limited the terms of committee chairmen eliminated legislative power centers that could stand up to the executive branch and thereby weakened Congress as an institution.<\/p>\n<p>When President Donald Trump said that he intends to take the control of the American government out of the hands of those who have purchased it and return the power over government to the American people, the monied interest groups, together with Israel despite what Trump has done for Israel\u2019s interests, have spent the last 8 years trying to destroy Trump, who now faces four totally false indictments by Democrats, not by the American people, and a Democrat effort to steal his real estate empire.<\/p>\n<p>This is the America today.\u00a0 Without any doubt the most corrupt country on earth.\u00a0 Not only does the government not represent its citizens, preferring instead immigrant-invaders, Israel, the military-security complex, LGBT sexual perverts,\u00a0 Big Pharma and the economic parasites that live off the taxpayers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, allegedly a criminal investigatory force, has branded Trump supporters as \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d and has opened a new department to monitor them.\u00a0 The FBI\u2019s message is clear, if you vote for Trump, you will be on our radar as a \u201cdomestic terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Putin thinks he can make peace with a government that answers to the military\/security complex and other interests that benefit from having Russia positioned as an enemy.<\/p>\n<p>And voters think they can change things in a system driven by interest group money.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"8EuArrSYpM\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/pages\/donate\/\">Donate<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Donate&#8221; &#8212; PaulCraigRoberts.org\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/pages\/donate\/embed\/#?secret=6GZv8jMIot#?secret=8EuArrSYpM\" data-secret=\"8EuArrSYpM\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2023\/11\/05\/does-any-member-of-the-us-goverment-represent-americans\/\">Source <\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Congress DO NOT represent ordinary Americans. Instead they act on behalf of Wall Street, various military\/industrial interests, pharmaceutical giants and, of course, Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275382,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275381\/revisions\/275382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}