{"id":16139,"date":"2016-07-26T21:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T21:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16139"},"modified":"2016-07-26T21:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T21:31:24","slug":"government-its-a-partnership-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16139","title":{"rendered":"Government: It’s a partnership, yes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This graphic showed up on a social media feed that I get.<\/p>\n

I find it most instructive. I won’t recite it to you, as you can see it for yourself.<\/p>\n

It does, though, prompt a thought or two about government and its very nature as created by the founders of our great country.<\/p>\n

They created a partnership. They limited the power of the president on purpose by dividing the power among three co-equal branches of government … and by allowing states to create their own governments to deal with issues germane to those who live within those states and other territories.<\/p>\n

So, when I hear Republicans these days yap and yammer about how the country is going to hell — a notion to which I do not subscribe — I also have to wonder if they’re really ready to take ownership of the government in which they, too, are an integral part.<\/p>\n

The party that opposes the individual in the White House has been as much a part of what supposedly ails the country as the president.<\/p>\n

Sure, the president — and vice president — are elected in a nationwide vote. Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives are elected by those who live within their states and\/or congressional districts. Collectively, though, they also represent a national constituency.<\/p>\n

The same logic can be applied to governors and state legislators.<\/p>\n

As the graphic points, most of those office at this point are occupied by the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

Which begs the question: Why are they bitching so loudly?<\/p>\n\n

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This graphic showed up on a social media feed that I get. I find it most instructive. I won’t recite it to you, as you can see it for yourself. It does, though, prompt a thought or two about government and its very nature as created by the founders of our great country. They created … Continue reading Government: It’s a partnership, yes?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1337,1782,3907,6442,6441],"class_list":["post-16139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-democratic-party","tag-founding-fathers","tag-republican-party","tag-state-governments","tag-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16141,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions\/16141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}