“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
When the Founders placed their names below that quote on July 4, 1776, they were putting their lives on the line beginning the pursuit of a “a more perfect union”. w
That was the moment where collective condemnation was warranted. But the current political culture suggests the prospect of being governed in a Banana Republic is worth the risk, if it means the opposition is defeated.
Obstruction has become viable tactic in doing the people’s business. Is it acceptable? It depends on whom you ask. It’s fundamentally abhorrent because at the core it places party over country.
All you say is true. But how does that change the ultimate responsibility of the voters to put the right people in office and in so doing remove the wrong people?
In our system it still falls upon all of us to vote and to vote for what it is we want. If the majority of the people stupidly vote for “free stuff” as promised by politicians then do they not deserve the consequences?
Read the following.
Do you agree the voter would be responsible?
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.”
And
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”