“Knowing that we have seen the rule of law and respect for authority set aside, so many of us still go about our business and let the swamp critters carry on as usual.”
The founders fully understood that what they founded would only last as long as the people appreciated it and defended it.
“A Republic... if you can keep it.”
We now know the answer.
It might have lasted longer without the subversion inherent in the three evil amendments, the 16th, the 17th, and the 19th plus the creation of the long feared Central Bank/Federal Reserve. 16 and the Fed gave the central government control of the money and of the income and wealth of the nation. 17 ended Federalism by ending the representation of the States as States in the Federal government and 19 guaranteed the feminization of the Republic in that the emphasis of elections would be on security for women and their children and to make everyone “be nice.” That very last seems like a joke almost but it is very serious for therein lies tan irresistible path to totalitarian centralism.
The flaws are not in our Founders or the Constitution, but in man’s fallen nature. There is NO set of rules that will effectively govern man when he refuses to govern himself.
As one of the founders stated, our form of government was for a godly and religious people only, and would not work with those who were otherwise.
“Otherwise” now the majority - who refuse to follow our Constitution. The flaw is not in the Constitution - but in a society that refuses to acknowledge its authority.
As someone said, “Every move of God is born in a cave and dies in a cathedral” Our country was born by men and women universally acknowledging God and His divine authority and His standards - except for that of slavery.
Our federal government, and most state governments are corrupt “cathedrals” - fixed, rigid, corrupt structures that rule and waste.
Our end was inevitable - the question was only how long would it take?
It was over decades ago.
Apart from a national revival with repentance, the Trump phenomenon will be short-lived. We have a nation of youth brainwashed by Marxist public education who will fully embrace socialism and then communism - which always result in a dictatorship.
The suffering masses in Venezuela still have no concept that they brought their sorrows on their own heads - buying into the promises of socialism.
We are following their lead......the pattern is set, and cannot be changed......
but by God Himself.