Let’s face it: the “process” is now totally corrupt. Members of Congress, both in the House of Representatives and the Senate, are now considering a bill to pay for “infrastructure.”
One member of the House even said, “Care is infrastructure. Climate justice is infrastructure. Housing is infrastructure.” (Direct quote from Ayanna Pressley.)
The Founders were wise enough to write down a set of rules for running a Republican form of government. The Constitution, as written, did not require the government to provide anything to The People. Indeed, the entire concept of redistribution of wealth was abhorrent to those who collaborated to overturn the rule of a king whose power was based on redistributing wealth from “commoners” to “peers of the realm.”
The Preamble quite deftly and explicitly clarifies that the Government’s job is to provide an environment where individuals can thrive, not a “cradle to grave” system of entitlements.
Today, we have members of Congress who believe that the redistribution of wealth is a central purpose of the federal government. At least Ayanna Pressley is honest when she says that government should provide “care” and “housing.” And she isn’t alone. She’s just got the courage of her convictions to say it out loud.
These people don’t want democracy. They want totalitarian rule by an elite few who answer to nobody. They want a peerage. They want a king.
The long slide into totalitarian rule in the US has been gaining even more speed since the “Patriot” Act was signed into law by George W. Bush in 2001.
A country in fear of another attack on the homeland after two planes flew into the WTC on 9/11/01 decided to give virtually unlimited and unfettered control to the government. They enthusiastically called for both houses of Congress to vote on a barely-examined Act, and Bush enthusiastically signed it.
The warts only began to show up when people were put on “no-fly” lists, when courts permitted a clear violation of the 4th Amendment with the “sneak and peek” provision, when government agencies were permitted to arrest and hold suspects against their will, for long periods of time, and without any intention to prosecute them — and those are only some of the worst powers given to the government by the Patriot Act. An Act passed by members of Congress. Signed by a President. And which violated the entire precepts underlying the Constitution.
How many of us kept quoting Franklin’s warning about surrendering liberty to gain security? How many of us have been watching as our liberty was surrendered by our elected representatives, who did nothing to improve our security? For that matter, our security has become worse over time, in part because the Patriot Act has permitted our government to take actions that, in previous times, would have been cause for “tar and feathers.”
The grand experiment in freedom that was the United States of America is ending with a whimper – not with a bang. It is ending because we didn’t pay attention to those whose primary goal was to destroy democracy and replace it with totalitarianism. We had it so good for so long that we forgot how to defend our rights against those who would control us.
We have forgotten how to fight back. We have become children scared of the dark. And our parents, rather than shining a light, are drawing the drapes even tighter.
I’m sorry, but it’s too late to change things now. When people talk about establishing “zones,” whether to defend the 2nd Amendment right to “keep and bear” arms or to implement “sanctuary” for those who have illegally entered this country and refuse to follow our laws, it says that the entire concept of “out of many, one” has been abandoned.
We are no longer one country with one set of laws. Those hired to enforce the law impartially are withdrawing from that honorable profession and are being replaced by partisans who do not fairly and impartially enforce the law.
Law and order are vanishing from many of our largest cities. Local communities will inevitably follow their example. Without impartially enforced law, there cannot be order. And without order, how can there be peace? In any event, the result won’t be pretty.
You haven’t forgotten what “out of many, one” is, have you? It was the motto of the United States of America until 1956. It appears on our paper money, our official seal, and can be seen on monuments everywhere.
Still don’t recognize it?
Let me say it in the original Latin for you: “E Pluribus Unum.”
