Or is it just more obvious today? The little soap opera in Georgia regarding attorneys seeking to imprison The Donald for life is just one of hundreds of examples. Especially here in the Fifty States.
John Adams stated, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” This thought is profound and holds great importance in understanding the foundation of the former American republic.
Especially since that foundation is virtually completely eroded away. It was once thought to be “a solid rock” but has proven more and more to be nothing but shifting sands. Again, we point to the Willis situation in Georgia: the facts and especially this lawyer’s testimony. Not only does it again confirm the reason that more and more of us distrust more and more lawyers. It is truly disgusting to hear what passes for acceptable relationships between people who are, officially at least, adults.
But we see it everywhere we look, especially in government. Politicians and elected officials who seek out and exploit loopholes (real or perceived) to enrich themselves, their families, and friends. Who not just twist the law but write the law in such a way to make it easier to cheat, steal, and take advantage of it. Who are willing (but don’t need) to wear blinders and rose-colored glasses when looking at some people, while demanding and getting the full force of the law used as a hammer on their political enemies and the less-powerful.
How can someone who steals campaign contributions or money from family and friends be trusted to wisely spend (and not steal) the public (taxpayer) money? Especially when the way that money comes under their control is itself immoral?
As one commentator noted today, we are indeed seeing the nations of North America burn to the ground. But the fuel load has been lovingly put together for decades. And the ignition sources have been ready to be applied.
Scientists, engineers, and firefighters recognize that there are four requirements for fire. The fire tetrahedron needs heat (the right temperature), oxygen (a supply of air), fuel (of many kinds), and a chemical reaction:
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The Price of Liberty 
When has a State seceded? Who calls the shots?
Back in the 1860s, it was all very simple and clear-cut – at least looking back a century and a half. A State called a convention with delegates selected by voters, and if the convention voted to leave the Union, a declaration was published stating the fact and reasons. Good or bad, or both.
(By the way, that is called “representative democracy” and the States are sovereigns. Too bad the self-proclaimed “defenders of democracy” today (and then, at least in the North and West) can’t seem to understand that. Of course, these same so-called democracy-worshippers today don’t seem to trust The People” to vote right without some kind of vanguard telling them what to vote for.)
But today, we need to ask, when does a State de facto secede from the Union. (Well, what is left of the federal republic after 150 years of stealing power, money, and rights by DC.)
What do you, dear readers, think?
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