When the ballot box is removed from us as a tool of freedom, we don’t have much left.
So the House Republican leadership is set up to cave and cave again. And the Senate Republican leadership is even more timid, preemptively removing certain strategies even before conflict has started.
Pretty much a mockery of a “representative republic”. And not very much of a “democratic state”, either, unless we are talking about a Soviet-bloc sort of “democracy”.
This has decayed into an oligarchy of the few passing out favors to various factions of the many. The “greatest good for the greatest number” is a concept no longer even paid lip service.
The era of “efficient” government beckons.
The Second Amendment remains the safety valve. But like an old-fashioned steam engine, the safety valve is likely to be corroded through many years of neglect and failure to provide even minimal performance by periodic testing.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Just sayin’.
Civil war is not actually illegal, its use in this territory once known as “the United States of America” is suppressed only by a very bad experience 150 years ago, when one side was underprepared and the other was unwilling to listen to the real complaint, not the one in which they framed the conflict.