- The courts have been allowed to assume more power than intended in the Constitution. Obviously, all three branches of the government have assumed considerably more power than permitted by the Constitution, but I mean in proportion to the other two.
- IMO, the liberal congress of (how many decades?) has facilitated this as a way of accomplishing what they couldn’t do in the legislature.
- The courts have then allowed the executive branch to literally run amok, while at the same time the congress has abdicated its duties by delegating all manner of what should be *only* a congressional duty to bureaucratic regulatory agencies run by....the executive branch.
- When citizens can be arrested, prosecuted, imprisoned and properties confiscated on the basis of “regulations” written by unelected bureaucrats that have the force of legitimate legislatively passed laws, we have ceased to be a representative republic. Sadly, our republic (at least as envisioned by our founders) has been on life support for decades. I would go so far as to say the republic died some time ago. What has happened in the last three years is probably more accurately described as rotting of a corpse that most people didn’t realize was dead. Sort of like the movie Weekend at Bernies. Make the weekend 3 years and substitute the republic for Bernie.
Sadly, I am thinking that we should realize the despotic nightmare of Obama is not so much a temporary detour, but more the logical outcome of the last 40 years. In the early 70’s I argued with professors that we were heading to just where we are now. Politically and economically. For the most part I was dismissed. It sucks being right sometimes.
No way you were going to win that argument. They were infected years before and couldn't hear you.
They quit listening to reason and are marching on "The Road We Are Traveling" By Stuart Chase instead.
This is what they have been working for. We have almost arrived at the utopia they have been working to create.
Your whole post is dead on.