Posted on 07/06/2021 3:37:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber
America’s Founders recognized that domestic tranquility was one of government’s first responsibilities so what happens when Democrats abandon that duty?
Although this journal is called the American Thinker it can be useful to hear the observations of a non-American thinker on what appear to be bewildering and growing problems in America.
Public safety is perhaps the pre-eminent responsibility of government. If a government cannot protect its citizens against criminal members of its society, or even against the unlawful behavior of government itself, that nation no longer deserves to call itself a functioning democracy.
Has the United States reached that point?
The Constitution, which is the primary document of the United States government, begins, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare....”
These provisions are the basic tenets of the need to maintain civil order and public safety in a nation in harmony with itself. It means providing law and order, protection, and safety for each lawful individual citizen.
The Founders wrote the Constitution that way because it was known that there will be people, or even tyrants, who do not respect their fellow citizens and who are willing to take the law into their own hands. This is especially true if the government fails to provide mechanisms to police against crime and punish it when it occurs.
The outcome of defunding or dismantling law enforcement must, inevitably, lead to a sharp increase in lawlessness and violence. In those parts of America that have aggressively defunded or dismantled their law enforcement, areas that are almost exclusively Democrat-governed states and cities, the social fabric has indeed broken down.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The other side of the number - add a zero.
No way that 6 million Americans were killed in the Civil War.
And if we have another internal rebellion (civil war), we won’t lose that many people. The rebellion of January 6th resulted in one life lost. And, if you believe the conspiracy theorists, nobody died!
It is already dead. Demographics have ensured it. Unless conservatives outbreed the ferals and illegal immigrants it is over, I don’t see that happening considering there are millions third world breeders making more democrats.
We aren’t a Democratic Republic.
North Korea is a Democratic Republic.
I surely hope so. Maybe we can go back to rule by local tribal chieftains.
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