What I am suggesting is that the need to go ‘outside the system’ … indeed the need to correct the countless ailments that are destroying our civilization, and those ailments themselves … wouldn’t exist but for one thing: the fact that the citizen has become lazy, diverted, and otherwise ignorant.
The press and academia would not possess the inordinate power to destroy if the people insisted on being informed, educated and vigilant (the three major qualities needed for a free republic to survive). Despite constant criticism that the Constitution is somehow ‘flawed’ in that the Framers didn’t envision a tyrannical press, an activist judiciary, etc. … I see the only major flaw (and it is one that the Framers could not have addressed, because any Constitution must assume eternal citizen vigilance over it) in the Constitution consists in the fact that the Framers could not include the death-wish-societal flaw that the citizenry would no longer care enough to keep the press, the judiciary, and all other aspects of our government and society answerable to them.
Sadly, the bottom line in the fall of our republic will be the people’s diversion by bread and circuses.
What it will take to save her from that fall is informed, resolute patriots who recognize that the Constitution has been abandoned, and who are willing and prepared to wrest the reins of power from those who have dismantled it. And it isn’t going to happen via the election process.
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Thanks, as always, Mia for your powerful insights.
Placemarker.
Thank you, joanie.
A couple of clarifications:
1- By 'outside the system,' I mean extra-constitutional, extralegal. This is war, not democratic process.
To do otherwise would be to make the same mistake the Left has made--and continues to make--fighting terrorism. (This is in no way a criticism of the Constitution.)
2- I, too, see the disinformed, misinformed, uninformed, disinterested, myopic (and illegal) electorate as the underlying threat to our democratic republic. But transforming it into an informed, educated, vigilant citizenry is not a realistic solution.
Nor is it the only solution.
If we look at this historically, a large segment of the citizenry has always been ignorant and uninvolved. The difference today is that these ignorant, easily demagogued people can be identified, agitated, mobilized in real time. In the past, they didn't vote. Today, they vote... and vote again.
3- The solution, therefore, is not in the ballot box. It is in the battlefield.