It now falls to ordinary citizens to end this abuse of power.
Go to paragraph 1. Congress gets away with their crap because ordinary citizens refuse to stop it. Ordinary citizens could rein in those neo-Nazis tomorrow, but they won't because it suits the ordinary citizens' laziness, complacency, torpor, cowardice, and/or quest for money and power (income, status and career).
In other words, the American people themselves are to blame. They accept increasing statism, they surrender their sovereign citizenship and accept serfdom. They meekly pay whatever taxes are demanded, for the "privilege" of going about their lives, pursuing their careers. They pay the salaries of the prosecutors, the judges, the legislators, the tax collectors, the TSA, the regulators, the President.
It is not that Congress refuses to stop some abuse. It is that we do not get together in an effective force and stop this monstrously abusive government.
Productive Americans -- those who pay taxes -- love law abiding, more than they love liberty. So they can't be expected to defy the law and simply refuse to pay taxes another year. But what explains their failure to remedy matters legally, by refusing to work?
In the past, when the nation's survival was at stake, Americans put down their pens and plows, and forfeited their incomes, and prepared to forfeit their very lives, for the sake of America.
Today, the nation's survival is at stake. What are they doing?
“It is that we do not get together in an effective force and stop this monstrously abusive government.”
Ain’t that the truth.
Conservatives suffer under sky-high property taxes because they don’t attend county board meetings.
Communists are in public schools because conservatives don’t attend schoolboard meetings.
Communities are invaded by jackboot cops because conservatives refuse to get involved and vote in a constitutional sheriff to protect their property and interests.
The Founders warned us that liberty requires constant vigilance. Conservatives are failing in that duty and may lose everything if they don’t get active, organize and participate.