State government doesn't work for the people

The state of Illinois is in utter disarray, and this isn't a secret to anyone you ask on the street. There is no faith in the state, no faith in the system, no faith in democratic forces or the Democratic Machine churning in Chicago to control 12 million cogs in this land fewer and fewer people are calling home.

The people of Illinois are sick of choosing between Republicans who promise fiscal responsibility yet are crippled in this state by overwhelming disapproval of Republicans on the national stage, or Democrats who promise some socioeconomic utopia yet drive our state's finances into the dirt to accomplish nothing of note toward the advancement of happiness in our land.

We don't need to shuffle city millionaires and billionaires in our state's highest offices. We don't need patchwork amendments or a Speaker who pretends to be the prime minister of some Eastern European post-Soviet republic. We don't want empty promises of minor reform to Band-Aid botched brokeries which have torn our state into a distinct impoverished class that wants nothing more than the free and fair opportunity promised to us in our nation's declaration of being.

Our state constitution doesn't work. It maintains an increasingly unacceptable and dangerous status quo. Our debt soars, our people leave, the fat cats get fatter while our students and wallets suffer for it. Our constitution creates 118 representatives who choose their own voters every 10 years, 59 senators who act as nothing more than a speed bump for King Michael and a governor who uses the job to avoid investigation into his own corruption to mirror the state he pretends to keep safe from a pandemic which ravages our people.

In accordance with our rights enshrined in the Declaration, it's time to draft a working government in Illinois.

Edward E. Moritz

Warrenville