Cato famously said in the Roman Senate “Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.” It’s been shortened to Carthago delenda est. I say, DC Delenda Est. In English it translates plainly to “DC must be defeated.”
Today, the US House is voting to impeach the third president in the history of our country. This will be the second impeachment in my lifetime. I did not pay attention to the first case two decades ago – as a ten year old – but today’s impeachment vote likely has the attention of a vast majority of America, including 10 year olds.
DC politics has infected every aspect of our lives, basically. It’s talked about at the mechanic, the coffee shop, the workplace, home, the bar, and everywhere in between. Even political “laypersons” know what’s happening. Most are firmly on one side or the other. “They’re going to impeach the bastard!” some will say. Others, “those traitors are overriding the will of the people!” Many conversations descend into much worse, especially on social media.
243 years ago our forefathers waged war on a tyrannical overreaching government abroad. They won. The document that followed and was ratified in 1788, the Constitution, prohibited our Government from certain actions.
That document seems nearly worthless today.
Yesterday, that same US House of Representatives voted to approve a bill that was over 2,300 pages long. It spends nearly $1.4 TRILLION. It also, unconstitutionally, raises the tobacco age limit to an arbitrary age of 21, among other things.
The majority of states (you know, as outlined in the Constitution,) voted to install Donald J Trump as our 45th President. He was an outsider, he swung hard, and he spoke plainly to people who had been ignored. Trump also ignited a social war between the elites and the less so. We’ve seen this play out in the name-calling social media tirades, the riots in leftist controlled cities, and now with the impeachment charade playing out for a national audience. But NONE of that matters, not that much.
Our government was overthrown by tyrants long ago, and Trump, whether inadvertently or not, has shined (shone?) a big bright light on that.
President Trump is not a conservative. He never has been and probably never will be. But, he has GOVERNED more conservatively than any president in my lifetime, that I can remember. There is a difference with a distinction. The rabid left has pushed him into a box, and I’m thankful for that. Without an opponent, Trump likely governs more moderately than Bush, at best.
The left is the best thing that happened for Trump, and for the American people that believe in a Constitutional form of government. They’ve forced Trump to govern that way, mostly. Of course, there are omnibus spending packages as the exception.
Omnibus spending packages are proof that Congress will do whatever it takes to preserve their own. A little pork for me, a little pork for you, congress wins, America loses. Impeachment or not, division or not, we will unite to spend more money than we have an override the rights of the States at our will.
Don’t forget, America is 23 TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT.
Last year when the omnibus spending package reached his desk President Trump vowed he would NEVER sign a bill like it again. How true will he remain to his word? The bill(s) did pass the House with veto proof majorities after all.
And no one knows what the hell is in the bills. No one. 2,300 pages and they had less than 24 hours to read it. No one read it. I promise you that.
The only way to correct this course is, of course, that DC delenda est. Ceterum censeo DC esse delendam. The states of this Union must rise up and start nullifying federal law, and the people must start electing representation that will follow and uphold the Constitution. All of them that are controlled by reasonable constitutional people, anyways. The 17th amendment must be repealed, as well. New Hampshire would be a great place for that to start.
Article 10 of the New Hampshire Constitution does say, after all, that “Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.”
***NOTE TO THE SECRET SERVICE AND NSA: THIS POST IN NO WAY ADVOCATES VIOLENCE OR WAR UPON ANY PERSON OR PERSONS, ELECTED OR OTHERWISE. DC DELENDA EST. ***