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The Constitution says ‘Congress shall make no law...

However;

The Declaration of INDEPENDANCE says:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,
as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design
to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,
and to provide new Guards for their future security.--

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;
and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,
all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

What that misses is it takes real courage, not just keyboard bravado.

Can we throw off this government? Sure.

What we have in front of us though is the rest of the culture. A very real hearts and minds battle right here on our own turf. We are watching the failure of that idea right now in the Middle East. Their “culture” doesn’t and will never allow freedom.

America was founded as ‘freedom first.’ And it has slipped away, very far away from that ideal. The ideal that it is ‘freedom first.’ Even the rhetoric around the the pandemic is group thinking and sacrifice personal freedom. Yes, it is OK during a crisis for the survival of the whole, but now we have governments creating passports for a virus/any reason. Now people have lost their privacy and freedom permanently. And it is going to get a lot worse.

Yes, we can throw off the government. But we’ve got to deal with the culture. In many ways this was much, much easier at our founding. There was no mass media, social media, freedom of movement, freedom of association, our mail was private. We have none of that now. A pamphleteer today needs a permit, you need a permit to stand on your soapbox in the town square.

No, gaining back what we have lost just is not going to happen. And I was just thinking this morning, before evening sitting down to FR...this is not the country I want to live in. This isn’t what it was supposed to be like at this time in MY life. I came to realize even if the leadership was gone, nothing would change and this headlong plunge into darkness will continue.

Strategically the democrats/marxists hold all the cities. We look on at that and marvel, but instead we should ask ourselves...why. Why is every major city in the United States blue? Last week I had to drive through a rough part of town to see a client. As I drove past 30 blocks of closed up storefronts, once built by immigrants post WWII...now empty and abandoned. I wondered what is wrong with the people who live in these neighborhoods today that they have not and were not able to be lifted up by what these previous immigrants created? Where is this neighborhood’s entrepreneurs and creatives? As I sat with the client in their ‘flipped house’ 18 shots rang out across the street in the apartment complex. Everything fell silent outside and inside for several minutes and then the world went on about its business.

America was a great experiment and had a good run, but we cannot keep it. I don’t know where in the world the Liberty Bell will ring again. I just know that today I am living in a country I no longer understand and do not want to be living in.