One of the safeguards against tyranny instituted by the Founding Fathers was a system of checks and balances of power by separating the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government. However, this system could only work as long as people had the capacity for rational thinking and the authoritarian social order, where authority resided in individuals and on local social levels, was intact. The authoritarian social order in America was the foundation that made it possible for a division of power to exist.
With the anti-authoritarian transformation of society, there was a shift in the political mainstream to the left of center with an enormous concentration of power transferred to the Federal Government. The power of individuals to rationally think for themselves has been largely replaced by the collective ideology of the political left in a majority of those in the three branches of the Federal Government. The only remaining life-positive force to oppose this destructive ideology resides in the voting power of the American people in the 2012 elections.
Neither Left Nor Right
The Emotional Plague
Charles Konia, M.D. 