Posted on 05/18/2020 3:52:48 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Neither the ancient Romans nor our British ancestors had written Constitutions. Their supreme law was whatever the Senate or King-in-Parliament determined. While the United States has a written Constitution, it’s honored in the breach, and is often twisted to suit the social justice goals of political opportunists. Time and neglect rendered the supreme law of the land a corrupted dead-letter known as a living and breathing Constitution in which the hard clauses that established the three branches, and little else, remain. In comparison, our quaint and written Constitution is an anachronistic memory of the living and breathing beast that replaced it.
The 17th Amendment of 1913 upended the Framers’ federal design. Under a newly democratized Congress, the march of egalitarian equality progressed in fits and starts to this day, but with a twist. Hyphenated groups increasingly claim special privileges and find justice based on something of a sliding and shifting scale of intersectionality in which native-born Americans are at the bottom. After fifty years, what was once derided as “affirmative action,” evolved into “diversity” and extra privileges and immunities for the various American identities, illegal aliens and muslims. While none of this is backed up by Article I law, the unintended yet entirely foreseeable outcome of an ever-increasing Congressional democratic element is less equality.
Hand-in-hand with a hierarchy of rights and privileges are unwritten and unspoken exceptions to the scale of justice, the rule of laws and regulations. One of the exceptions is that justice is different for those near the top of government and those who are not.
In large ways or small, we’ve all experienced the petty jackboot of government. The IRS promised nasty outcomes if I didn’t cough up $30. A local in my hometown went to prison for shooting a bald eagle . .
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Years ago when I applied for a clerical job at a well known trucking company the form clearly instructed applicants NOT to apply if a relative was already employed. It didn’t matter if the relative was a driver, dock worker, etc. NO nepotism!
Meanwhile, NY Rep AOC has a 7-year-old tax bill for $2000 and she ain't paying. Because she's important.
Ask yourself how much income tax money Al Sharpton still owes....
You can thank the likes of Linda Graham, who talked tough, but now that is has come down to it, is scared to confront the kenyan usurper, and won't even summon him!
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