Crisis of Confidence- Should the U. S. Consider a Parliamentary System of Government? Editorial Opinion

For the past few weeks we have been treated to one story after another which casts extreme doubt on the motives of those who have been elected to the highest offices in our Federal Government.

Be it wiretapping, bribery, prisoner abuse, higher than justified oil prices, or the recent theft of Veteran's names and social security numbers from an agency which was set up to care for them.

Your editors are sure that they reflect the majority of our readers, when we say that, we are now in the midst of the biggest crisis of confidence this country has experienced, in decades.

If our government had been set up as a parliamentary system, no doubt the current occupant of the White House would have long ago been thrown out of office in disgrace.

However, our lumbering three branch system moves at a snails pace when it comes to dealing with the deluge of scandals which have been reigning down on the U. S. in the past five years or so.

Perhaps it is time for the electorate to start considering the benefits of a move toward structural change in the way our leaders are elected, and the manner in which our system is configured.

We predict that a movement to amend the Constitution to revamp our system will be a growing one in the coming years, and that perhaps fifty years from now, we will have not a presidential office but a Prime Ministerial office.

In our view. we need to move toward the goal of a parliamentary system rapidly, there is, in our opinion, no viable alternative.

The World Monitor
Editorial Board