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Numerous bills of thousands of pages will no longer carry even the pretense of being the product of the will of the people through their elected representatives. Now the nation will be governed by an ever shrinking, increasingly remote, proxy bearing congressional elite who will hand the administration of government over to unaccountable bureaucrats, after they have taken their vig, of course.

The actions of these unaccountable people, assuming they can get past a Republican Senate and a Republican president, will be subject to review by an unelected, unaccountable and increasingly politicized judiciary. If the Democrats take the Senate and the White House, the Supreme Court then becomes the only institution to protect the people. If the Democrats take the Senate and the White House, can we believe they will leave the Supreme Court alone?

Our federal system has become perverse. The federal government overreaches especially as it distorts the commerce clause while the judiciary condones. The state governments overreach in the chaos of the virus to radically rob the people of liberties, often without rational or scientific justification. In other words, the federal government is active where it should be restrained and states, in containing the virus or in creating sanctuaries against immigration controls, have undermined constitutional and representative rule.

In other words, our constitutional system is spinning out of control.

The prospects for setting the ship of state on a true course are bleak. If Donald Trump is not reelected, game over. If Donald Trump is elected, after him the deluge. No matter who inherits the White House, an economic downturn of severe proportions which might well occur as a result of the government shutting down the economy will make it difficult to turn the people away from the seductions of a tyrant. Virtually no institution in America is willing to risk its existence on behalf of constitutional liberty. The principles of the First Amendment have been done away with in social media and might well go the same way by government action. The people have rightly lost confidence in our government institutions beginning with the FBI and extending right through the CDC.

In short, there is little fundamental underpinning to which the people can rally on behalf of constitutional liberty. What little remains is under existential threat and Nancy Pelosi is only a prominent figure.

It all begs questions....which aren’t written in any form.

If a House member does a proxy to Pelosi...then passes away, can Pelosi continue to vote with that proxy until a new guy arrives from the state?

If a House member does a proxy and decides to hand it to Jay Leno to be in the House and use the proxy vote...is that legal? Could you have a 13-year-old kid receive the proxy and sit for a day as a proxy-House member?

It just seems like it opens up a big Pandoras Box, with no limitations.

What if Nancy Pelosi passes away in the middle of some critical vote, with 99-percent of Democratic House members sitting in their home patio instead of the House floor...could the Republicans carry a measure because the proxy votes were only identified to Pelosi herself?

It just sounds like something you’d do in Paraguay.

“Now the nation will be governed by an ever shrinking, increasingly remote, proxy bearing congressional elite who will hand the administration of government over to unaccountable bureaucrats, after they have taken their vig, of course.”

We are pretty much there now. You did forget to mention that most of these bills aren’t even written by actual Congresscritters. They’re written by lobbyists who deliver them to Congress where the name of a Critter or two is stamped on it.

“Our federal system has become perverse. The federal government overreaches especially as it distorts the commerce clause while the judiciary condones.”

Thank you Wickard v Filburn. That decision needs to be reviewed and thrown out entirely.