Corporatist / Federalist Lie: “I swear to support and defend the Constitution.."

Only about half of all voting-age Americans (54%) voted in 1996. By 2000, voter registration was at an all-time low.[1] Most Americans don’t write their legislators either, or sign petitions. If you ask people why they don’t participate in their government, many will tell you it is because they think the system is a sham, a lie. A joke. They will tell you that they believe politicians are crooks and that money and greed are the real drivers of national affairs.

Much of this cynicism comes from the suspicion that the people in charge aren’t playing by the rules. The rules for our system of government were established after careful (and often heated) debate when the Constitution went into effect in 1789. Since then, many of these rules, in fact, have been and are being, broken.

(see entire article at http://markfrankenberg.com/Mark_Frankenberg_Const.html)