Does anyone out there in America today really think that Washington is on our side anymore? We have men and women in black robes making sweeping decisions (i.e. net neutrality) that adversely affect citizens while benefiting corporate and governmental aspirations. We have politicians who claim to represent their constituents while cursing them behind closed doors and coming together against the wishes of the masses. We have an executive who is willing to forgo over 230 years of legal precedent and use executive orders for law enforcement.
America’s starting to feel like a bad movie. We’re all soldiers in the middle of the bush, surrounded on all sides by enemies who wish to do us harm (Russia, China, al Qaeda), and the last communication we get over a sat phone is that they’re recalling the evac and telling us to make an impossible trek to a rendezvous point at which they never intend to land.
One day, maybe not this year or this decade, but one day soon, a platoon of Americans is going to show up at the rendezvous, after fighting a bloody battle through the brush of the world, bruised, battered, scarred, cold, hungry, and afraid but steeled. And we will realize, “Wow, how fscked up is it that everyone and everything gave up on us, yet here we are?” At that point, I hope that those veterans of a campaign of tyranny against Americans decide, “It’s time to clean house.”
We’re now at the point where there’s only two types of people, regular citizens and the ruling class.
When you no longer trust the SC to be on the side of citizens then it is no longer a power check on government abuse...it is just the government saying to the government, “go ahead”. I’m getting tired of being told to “trust us” and having the SC say something is OK when, clearly, the citizens don’t agree.
We’re at a point where they seem to think they can just tell us (rewrite) what our rights are....and we shouldn’t question it. They seem to have forgotten the contract between us and them, at which point are you justified in not recognizing their authority (we give them)?