Maine’s One-Party Government Rules Through Deception: Bobby Charles

Maine is emblematic of a phenomenon occurring nationwide. States controlled by one-party Democrat governments, intent on pushing radical agendas, are simply ignoring the majority. They think they have license. That is why populism, distrust of government, and anger are growing.

Hundreds of bills introduced, many passed during that one State’s recent sessions, contradict the majority’s values as well as testimony and polling of Maine citizens. Democrats do not care.

The state’s one-party legislature, governor, and attorney general act, as in other one-party states, like the majority is irrelevant. Once in power, they ignore The People, and focus instead on keeping power, big donors, political action committees controlled by leadership, special interests.

Dozens of hours spent reviewing bills that Maine’s one-party government passed (in the past two years), changing words to trick the public – minimizing illegal aliens, drug trafficking, woke grammar, claiming higher taxes are lower, shifting burdens for law enforcement, drug treatment, new mandates to the local level – where people struggle to survive – only prove one thing: No accountability.

Coast to coast, Democrat governors and legislatures, like the president, are proving that they are out of touch, live in their own power-privileged world, really care little about constituents or the intent and meaning of the Federal or their State’s Constitution. No surprise, a recent Pew Research poll found, 85 percent of Americans now think their elected leaders “do not care about them.” Know why? They don’t.

On one hand, that is shocking – that those in power are content to act on radical whims, contradict the majority of their constituents, abuse power once in, believing they can do so without consequences. On the other, the bell is tolling for all those in power – who think they are out of reach, entitled to act as they do, can blithely stretch their authority, impose mandates, overspend, and waltz away. They cannot.

What did a “deep dive” into Maine’s last two years of Democrat-controlled legislation reveal – countless examples of noxious bills pushed and passed as if The People mean nothing, as if power is all that matters, oddly in lockstep with a national agenda, out of step with the state.

Maine people, like people across these Democrat-dominated states, are not blind, nor indifferent. They quietly seethe. They know they are viewed by these Democrat lawmakers as stupid, inattentive, easily manipulated by monopoly power, deceptive bill titles. They do not like it.

So, for starters, proposed in the last two sessions – by Maine’s Democrat House Speaker no less – was legislation to allow illegals to vote in all Maine elections.  Utterly absurd, contrary to what most citizens would want, cancelling their own vote with an illegal one. Yet there it is.

When that failed, the Democrat legislature – like 17 other states – pushed another radical idea, a work-around to get illegals into voting position, 75,000 invited to be “New Americans” in Maine. Representatives for the effort met with Biden, making the agenda only more clear.

Outrageous, not least because average Mainers strain under high inflation driven by misconceived energy policies, senseless overspending, mandates and subsidies, things no one wants?

What else? The list would take days to recite, but it is also – like much of the government’s overspending, mismanagement, and insider deals – hidden bureaucratic language.

Consider one example, among hundreds. Maine, like all states, produces a “legislative digest,” to which citizens can go, one assumes, for understanding of what their legislature did.

When you go there, what do you get? Bill titles and summaries, typical of other states. What do you learn? Almost nothing. You get titles, definitions, committees, lots of money shifting, and summaries that tell say next to nothing, self-serving, useless, more “woke” spending.

Worse, you get deception. Maine’s one-party government in recent years has become notorious for low integrity in national analyses, back to 2015. Like the national mind about public office, those in Maine are viewed as serving themselves first, no grasp on life’s strains, sense of history or service.

How bad? A summit could be held on how Maine’s Democrat legislature – content to abuse its monopoly power – has disserved the state, from students (worst public schools in America), parents (disenfranchised), and teachers (stripped of social security, low morale, pay) to small businesses, lobstermen (overregulated, down two-thirds), seniors who see their life savings vanishing to the young, with no affordable housing, unable to make ends meet.

One of the Democrat tricks is bureaucratic gobbledygook. While 80 percent of so-called asylum seekers – illegals looking for an illegal way in – disappear or get ruled unentitled, Maine Democrats invite them up and spend millions defending their claims, using Maine citizens’ money.

How many dubious asylum claims does Maine defend? In 2021, if you dig deep, you will find that under the Maine Civil Legal Services Fund Commission, with seven spending categories traceable to Democrat one-party government, not a pretty picture – more indefensible by the year.

In 2021, already 1,535 cases brought by illegals were in effect paid for by taxpayers, people just scratching out a living. By 2023, Democrats were defending 4,547 illegals, and that before the Democrats’ passed their “New Americans Office.” Fair? Hardly.

Where does all this lead? Two places, whether in Maine or Michigan. It leads to public action, throwing unaccountable and arrogant incumbents out, new accountability and limits on government, or … we lose the chance for that, lose accountability to entrenched abuses.

Representative democracy is hard work. If “We the People” give up on it, give in to abuses, get tricked, bought, or do not care, abuse becomes pervasive. Bottom line: Abuse by one-party Democrat states is a matter of record, a call to action – restore integrity or lose control.