A Double Standard

Considering our declining history and the lies, distortions and embellishments of the candidates for president, it has become painfully clear that there is a double standard applied to the people and those who are elected to represent us. If we lie on our employment applications, we would not be hired. What is said by those who campaign for public office is their employment application.

Honorable intentions aside, it has also become painfully clear that too many of those who are elected to public office, re-elected or seek higher office are doing so to gain more personal power in what has become a highly partisan, self-corrupting two-party political system of ideologues, which has betrayed the very foundation of our Constitution.

If we don't do something about it, our complacency could very well be our undoing. The solution is simple. Make all elected offices nonpartisan. Elect the most qualified professional government managers to represent us and truthfully inform us. Give them the task of downsizing our laws, regulations and bloated bureaucracies of inefficient government. And have the voters decide matters of taxation and public policy.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, CA