"AMERICA'S DEMOCRACY NOW HAS THE UNOFFICIAL 4TH BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT"

The America's constitutional democracy that is based on party politics, popular election and official selection of our public officials is now 236 years old. The United States constitution that is the supreme law of the land in America officially recognizes the three branches of the government (executive, judiciary and legislative) that are all politically and constitutionally autonomous or independent from one another. The United States constitution also places the principles separation of powers and checks and balances in the way these three branches of our government interact, operate, function and govern this nation. In the last few decades, another branch of the United States government that is not recognized by the constitution of the United States has emerged in our government with an enormous political power as well as political influence that transcend all the three constitutionally recognized branches of the American government.

The 4th unofficial branch of the United States government today is the special interest groups and lobbyists from the Wall Street banks, multinational oil and gas corporations, big businesses, professional groups and labor unions as well as the special interest groups that have their own political, economical and social agendas designed to primarily benefit these interest groups only and never the American voters. The United States Congress for the last few decades is politically muzzled and influenced by these powerful groups. There are strong and undisputed correlations between the voting patterns of the members of the US Congress on the important bills before the United States Congress and the political, economical and social agendas of these special interest groups and lobbyists.

This is the reason why Washington politics is completely broken. No single legislative bill can successfully pass the both houses of the United States Congress today without these congress men and women giving their strong political considerations to the political agendas of the special interest groups and lobbyists. The 535 members of the United States Congress are popularly elected by the American voters to serve and to defend their interests in Washington and not the interests of these powerful special groups and lobbyists. Whenever the US Congress works and a bill is passed by both houses, it is because one of the political parties have the majority control of the both houses or both political parties will jointly benefit from that particular bill and lastly, that bill will favor the political agendas of those special interest groups and lobbyists. The US Congress continues to leave the interests of the American voters who elected these officials behind and unattended to in favor of the 4th tier of our government in Washington, DC.