Posted on 01/04/2021 4:42:12 AM PST by MtnClimber
In Washington, do we have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people?
Abraham Lincoln ended his Gettysburg Address with the words "... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." That ideal of Lincoln's has been taught in civic classes for generations.
But how true is it today? In Washington, do we have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people?
Consider three flashpoint issues — prayer in schools, abortion, and homosexual "marriage." These were never demanded or approved of by the people or the people's representatives. They were literally imposed on the country by the Supreme Court. The only vote taken on these critical matters was that of nine unelected justices who twisted the Constitution to arbitrarily overturn centuries of tradition and codified law.
To illustrate our current situation, consider a Venn diagram, where one circle is the government and the other is the country. Ideally these two are supposed to tightly overlap. But as time has gone by and as the federal government grew larger and larger, a disconnect occurred. The overlap between the government and the people has shrunk considerably. It's now at the point where the government in many instances considers itself its own independent entity. This has been clearly shown in the past four years with the bureaucrats' war against President Trump and now the election steal of 2020. In both cases, there has been no real accountability for the blatant misconduct by government officials.
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I apologize if this insults my god-like, supreme overlords. Well, not really. Screw them.
A lot of Freepers don’t get this. Your country is you state that you live in. The USA, FedGov, is a construct of the states and not vice versa.
The public servants have become the public masters.
Absolutely, and if 2/3 of them got together they could clean out DC and put the republic back to the way it SHOULD be.!
I really is time to make this distinction. They have broken their oaths and gone rogue.
Thank you for the post.
at this point its pretty obvious we’ve had a foreign coup disguised as a US Presidential election
it was “beautifully” and precisely timed. In fact it is about the ONLY POSSIBLE way to have taken down the USA
The staircase goes:
Land-undeveloped, Land-settled, developed, the village, the town, towns develop territory, territories seek and acquire statehood via Congress and ratification by other states, state delineates boundary lines, counties/parishes.
It is one thing to say” I am an American.”
It is quite another to say, “I am from (state).”
Think on this: There are many G.I. Brats that, thanks to Congress, have no ‘home base’ to claim.
But Lincoln never envisioned the head of the Biden Crime Family would steal the residency
and that putrid Democrats like Penlosi and Schmanure would be dictating to "we, the people."
bkmk
“The U.S. government is not the country”
Of course not. If cheating and lies put people in office... ‘no’, the government will not EVER be the country. Those people represent NO ONE
I was brought up to believe that if I am associated with something low and dishonorable... then, I am covered with dirt that will not wash away.
It means everything to be clear of lies and cheating....or else who are you? You will never be worth anything or even worth knowing.
One of the problems with the government that no one ever mentions (so-called 'journalists' are too simple to grasp) is that since government unions were authorized, the Deep State was brought into being. No matter the policy set by a President, lib members of the bureaucracy do as they please, knowing that the unions will protect them from any repercussions.
The US government is not the country. The US government is the ENEMY!
Our government is thoroughly and hopelessly corrupt. It doesn’t even pretend to be otherwise anymore.
“If cheating and lies put people in office....“
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Not only does it put people in office, it keeps them there.
Since we are the ones who stupidly elect and re-elect them the U.S. government actually is very much a reflection of the country. We put the scoundrels there and don’t hold them accountable for anything. So whose to blame?
Yup-the cheating and lies begin in the school ‘system’ which is SO dummied down that no one challenges the cheating and lies
That, unfortunately, is the root of many of our problems.
I think you are spot on.
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