CHARLES SCHUMER'S BORDER WALL: ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES?

ICHEOKU says why is the Charles Schumer led Democratic Party behaving as if the election of 2016 did not take place and as if his party is still in power and therefore still calling all the shots in Washington DC; and also as if President Donald John Trump was not elected president based on election promises which he made to the American people? 

Watching the current absurdity going on in Washington DC where a minority party is holding a party in power hostage to its own agenda, indeed questions everything the Democratic Party has told American people previously that elections have consequences and you wonder if it is only when the Democratic Party wins elections that the rule applies. Why is it that they tell us this and then turn around and seem to forget the fact that President Donald John Trump was elected president in 2016 and therefore his election should have consequences as well. Or did they forget that the president was elected largely in part for his tough stance on immigration, including his promise to build wall on America's southern border; admitted Mexico was supposed to pay for it. but things did not work out as earlier planned to make Mexico pay for it. 

But irrespective of who pays for the wall, if the president won the election by reason of his promise to BUILD THE WALL, why then should the expressed wishes of the more than 63 million Americans who voted for the president not matter to the Democratic Party or be of such consequence as to warrant the fulfillment of the promise and expectation from the government which they put in power. Why then do people vote for any particular candidate based on campaign promises and why do people even run for offices if not to articulate what is important to the electorates, with a promise made to fulfill them if elected? Why then do candidates make promises to the electorate, based on which they swing their votes, if it turns out that they will be frustrated from keeping their election promises, by the obtuse and obstructing minority party? 

A case in point being the southern border wall with Mexico which catapulted President Donald John Trump into the White House, and which Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton and even Barack Obama once supported, only to now become anti wall obstructionists just because their lunatic fringe base is against it. How about President Donald John Trump's own base or is it only the Democratic Party's base that should be catered to and whose wish must always be fulfilled? Where is the tolerance and accommodation or is the political relationship now so one sided that it must always be the Republican Party which is always forced into a retreat while the Democratic Party becomes so bullish that they always have their way or it is the highway for everybody else. 

Where is the fairness and honesty in the horse trading usually involved in politics and where is the justiciability. Why did the Democratic Party take over the House of Representatives in the last Midterm Election if not for the promise of keeping Obamacare which they made to their base. So, how will they feel if Republicans decide to obstruct them or truncate it and make their promise to their base go up in smoke? Politics should never be a game of winner takes it all or a stance of my way or the highway, because what goes around always have a way of coming around. It should be a little here and a little there, flesh and bone situation, and in that way, both political parties' bases will feel like their votes mattered and counted.

ICHEOKU says therefore necessary accommodations must be made by the Congress to enable the president satisfy the wishes of the millions of Americans who want the wall built and thus help him fulfill his election promise to them; otherwise what use then is running for any office, if the wishes of the electorates doesn't matter any more or can be simply discountenanced by a minority opposition party. 

ICHEOKU says short of trying to force a distance between the president and his base and thus separate them from him because of the 2020 election, the Charles Schumer led Democratic Party have no other business or any cogent reason for obstructing and resisting the building of the southern border Mexico wall. The Republicans must therefore treat such a continuing obstruction as an affront to them as the majority party and to their president and find a way of circumventing the Democrats obstruction. If it means deploying the nuclear option, so be it; afterall their former leader Harry Reed used it to confirm two otherwise would have been impossible to confirm liberal Justices of the Supreme Court. 

Were it the Democratic Party that ran on the BUILD THE WALL promise and won, they would have since flooded the airwaves with their "election has consequences" outcry and will stay on the message until every American says let the Democrats build their wall. But not with the Republican Party, which sometimes appear to be not willing to fight for anything which their party's base wants or believes in; afraid of being branded racist or any other inclement adjective. 

ICHEOKU says what happened to the fighting spirit which distinguishes the two political parties, failing which, we should just have a one Party State and forget about it. What is worse if ICHEOKU may ask, is it using the nuclear option to confirm Supreme Court Justices that lasts a lifetime and which decisions affects nearly everything in the society or using it to clear obstacles towards securing needed funding to build the wall. Only that it would seem that even the Republican Party are equally sabotaging the president's agenda and do not want him to succeed, otherwise why not just go full metal jacket on approving the entire $25 billion for the wall and damn the consequence. But they are mad as well, alongside their Democratic Party establishment, that an outsider crashed their Washington DC's power party, uninvited and hijacked the center seat at the head table. 

Anyway, American people are waiting and watching to see how the current border wall triggered government shut-down face-off eventually works out; but truth be told, President Donald John Trump needs to have his wall built and it does not matter nor should it matter if the next Democratic Party's candidate runs on demolishing the wall and if he or she wins on that promise, should feel free to take bulldozers to the wall and demolish it. But let candidates be allowed to fulfill their campaign promises otherwise American electioneering campaign is doomed for vacuousness; because words should matter and campaign promises which secured victory for a candidate should as a matter of need, be fulfilled. BUILD THE WALL and let American Tax payers pay for it.