Reply to "Heller and Amodei on the wrong side of history"
This is in reply to a recent post
http://carsonnow.org/story/01/17/2017/heller-and-amodei-are-wrong-side-h....
Exactly WHAT "ideology" does not let Amodei and Heller do "what is best for the state"? That maybe we are a constitutional republic where the people have a say through their elected representatives to decide on public matters? What a terrible "ideology." I wonder if anybody cares where it came from and why. (Or course, the use of the use that shopworn marxist phrase, "wrong side of history," is NOT ideological…)
Let's put it another way. Exactly when did a representative republic morph into a dictatorship by an imperious executive supported by an unelected, careerist imperial bureaucracy? Exactly WHO gets to decide "what is best for the state"? Ideologically driven activists? "Experts"? Cronies? Protestors paid by "philanthropist" fat cats? Or the PEOPLE?
If you have a case, put it up for public discussion. The people are neither stupid or evil. Trust them to make the right decision through open and fair public debate, not through vengeful lame duck executive petulance.
"Legislation to “prevent the threat of executive action designating or expanding national monuments without Congressional approval or local support” is one of few things Congressman Amodei and Senator Heller have almost done RIGHT lately. The requirement for such a serious action should be congressional approval AND local support.
As to the laughable assertion that Amodei and Heller are "ideological," I respectfully refer you to the biblical phrase, "mote in your eye." After a brief time in my misspent youth as a member of the Sierra Club, I DO know what I'm talking about.