Part Four

This is the tough part, especially for me. I know that I am going to get a lot of flak for this, but I see no other way to make things better. By better, I mean for the people to have a more positive control in the workings of our government. So in order to make this more understandable to the reader, I first have to set your thoughts to our nation’s history.
As I said yesterday, our nation at its very beginning was rather small. Our forefathers had an idea to form a government of the people, by the people and for the people. The essence of this was that the government had to be accountable to the people in some way. That accountability was put forth into the right to vote and change the leaders of our nation every few years. Originally only landowners were eligible to vote, and that was only male landowners. That seemed to work for a while, however it was not long before non-landowners began to feel left out. After a period of time and some pressure, all male citizens who were not labeled “illiterate” were given the right to vote. Our country was expanding during this time, and we were feeling the growing pains. This resulted in some of the states splitting off and forming another country, and that did not sit well with the rest of us. As a result the Civil war was fought and eventually won by the Unionist North and our country was sort of whole again, although all was not really “hunky-dory” and still is not. We experienced even more growing pains in the years that followed, eventually females were given the right to vote yet most people of color in the old confederate states were labeled illiterate and denied the right to vote or even inhabit the same public places alongside white people. After involvement in two world wars, a few more Presidential assassinations, the integration movement finally won some ground. Yet still things were not really smooth among our very ethnically diverse population and we suffered even more growing pains. Eventually we have grown to ”Sea to shining sea” and actually beyond. We are now fifty states, as far North as Alaska, West to Hawaii, and our Southern tip is Key West Florida, East to Bangor Maine. We even have territories farther west to the American Samoa’s, even farther south to Puerto Rico, and others that I have not mentioned. We have become very large indeed for a country that only started out with thirteen states. We have grown to a population that may even exceed three hundred million by the 2010 census. Now that is a lot of people, and we are not of the same ethnicity like many of the other nations on this planet. Take China, for instance. Very few Chinese Nationals are not of Chinese ethnicity. Very few Russians are not Caucasian. Let’s face it, the United States of America is the most ethnically diverse nation on this planet. The question remains, just how do we fairly represent a nation of this geographical, populous and ethnic size? Especially in the Executive Branch of our government? I contend that one single person is not the answer.
And that is why we need to replace the position of President of the United States. That job is just too sensitive and too complicated for just one person to effectively and fairly handle. This country has simply outgrown, in size, ethnicity and population, the single leader concept. It’s that simple to state, but it is not simple to remedy. At least on the surface it may not seem simple.
If you want to find out how I would propose to remedy this, come back tomorrow.
See you then.