Posted on 08/05/2016 10:24:30 AM PDT by TADSLOS
Haunting this year’s presidential contest is the sense that the U.S. government no longer belongs to the people and no longer represents them. And this uneasy feeling is not misplaced. It reflects the real state of affairs.
We have lost the government we learned about in civics class, with its democratic election of representatives to do the voters’ will in framing laws, which the president vows to execute faithfully, unless the Supreme Court rules them unconstitutional. That small government of limited powers that the Founders designed, hedged with checks and balances, hasn’t operated for a century. All its parts still have their old names and appear to be carrying out their old functions. But in fact, a new kind of government has grown up inside the old structure, like those parasites hatched in another organism that grow by eating up their host from within, until the adult creature bursts out of the host’s carcass. This transformation is not an evolution but a usurpation.
What has now largely displaced the Founders’ government is what’s called the Administrative State—a transformation premeditated by its main architect, Woodrow Wilson. The thin-skinned, self-righteous college-professor president, who thought himself enlightened far beyond the citizenry, dismissed the Declaration of Independence’s inalienable rights as so much outmoded “nonsense,” and he rejected the Founders’ clunky constitutional machinery as obsolete. (See “It’s Not Your Founding Fathers’ Republic Any More,” Summer 2014.) What a modern country needed, he said, was a “living constitution” that would keep pace with the fast-changing times by continual, Darwinian adaptation, as he called it, effected by federal courts acting as a permanent constitutional convention.
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Ping. I think you’ll appreciate this.
I’ll assume you got my drift. 70% is a good start.
I think Bernie could answer this one; if his balls hadn't shriveled away.
Four plus...
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“Personally, I think I could randomly select about 600 people from my contiguous rural counties and have better leadership than we have in the administration, congress, and judiciary.”
I don’t know you, don’t have a clue what rural counties you speak of and have no idea what method of selection you might have in mind but I am certain you are right and that says it all about what is wrong with this country.
As the Founders often cautioned, a self-governing republic doesn’t have a governing class. Part of America’s current predicament is that it now has such a class, and the American people are very angry about it.
The question is, are we angry enough in enough numbers to affect, at any cost, a return to a Constitutionally constrained government. Time and events will tell.
If you have to ask then you’re a gov worker, on welfare, or here illegally.
As Reagan once said....”let’s close down the government and see if anybody misses it.”
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways; ,
then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.
Yes, Its a good sign.
Although not many of the commenters took much interest in the history lesson, it does seem to me that more and more, people are incorporating the whole history of progressivism into their articles when they write them.
That wasn’t the case so much a few years ago.
The more openly and in-depth we all talk about progressivism, the better it is. Their history is shameful and its to our advantage to leverage it.
Folks are not nearly angry enough.
Not nearly, but hopefully soon they will be.
bump for later
Anger implies rage. I think it's more weariness.
So true; but...
...Galatians 6:9 niv
Let us not become weary in doing good,
for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
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