Hey Everyone!
Today's post might be overly philosophical considering the current cluster-fuck state of the nation, but I just wanted to talk about how I keep being reminded of the brilliance of the people who designed our government. They were far from perfect, especially when viewed through the lens of history, but they had fought a tyrant, shed blood to free themselves from him, and were canny enough to know that human nature doesn't change and tyrants will always rise.
We're currently dealing with one of those inevitable tyrants. But because of the foresight of the revolutionaries who came before us, his efforts to dismantle and co-opt control of our government have been repeatedly stymied. Undoubtedly, in time, he'll succeed. But the barriers to centralized power the leaders of a hard-won nation put in place are, at this moment, acting as a bulwark against the tides of fascism. It won't hold forever, but it's holding for now.
Unfortunately, those fortifications against a dictatorial regime aren't as strong as they should be. This is because in recent decades our elected representatives, on both sides of the aisle, have been systematically dismantling and creatively reinterpreting the checks that are supposed to protect us from tyrants. They've sought to consolidate and centralize our government in their short-sighted quest for personal power and glory and, frankly, we're to blame for putting such small-minded, petty people into power.
In short, we fucked up. We allowed ourselves to be distracted and lulled into complacency. And if we want to survive as a country, that has to end now. It's well past time for us to wake up and demand accountability from those who presume to rule us. We must insist, through our political action and speech, that the people we elect to our government abide by the rule of law and respect our Constitution. When we put people into public office, we need to make sure they know that it's not their own small agendas we expect them to prioritize, but the long-term prosperity and security of The People of the United States of America that they must serve. And then we need to maintain vigilance to ensure that they adhere to our expectations.
Our Founding Fathers bought us time to mount a resistance and fight back. If we act now -- if we exercise our right to vote, to assemble, and to petition our government for a redress of grievances -- we can turn back the flood of tyranny and restore the freedoms that have been taken from us without having to shed blood. The prescience of the freedom-fighters who enshrined those rights for us in the document they built the foundations of our nation upon has given us a chance to reclaim control of our government without the horror and destruction that come from war. Let's not squander it.
Peace!
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