Short, to-the-point, and accurate...
...Civics classes used to teach: “Congress makes the laws, the president carries them out, judges decide controversies, and we citizens may be penalized only by a jury of our peers.”
Nobody believes that anymore, because no part of it has been true for
a long time. Barack Obama stopped pretending that it is. During the
twentieth century’s second half, both parties and all branches of
government made a mockery of the Constitution of 1789. Today’s effective
constitution is: “The president can do whatever he wants so long as
one-third of the Senate will sustain his vetoes and prevent his
conviction upon impeachment.”...
Yes. And current "leaders" in Congress were present for that abortion of the Constitution; many of them were active participants in the crime.
...Obama has been our first emperor. A Donald Trump presidency, far from reversing the ruling class’s unaccountable hold over American life, would seal it. Because Trump would act as our second emperor, he would render well-nigh impossible our return to republicanism....
We observed a few months back, that Trump is just another Obozo, but with bad hair. They do not completely share policy positions, but their M.O. will be near-identical. Sad to say, we can expect Congress, including the current "leaders," to continue their moral jackwaddery. It's what they do.
...Neither Obama nor Trump seem to know or care that cycles of reciprocal resentment, of insults and injuries paid back with ever more interest and ever less concern for consequences, are the natural fuel of revolutions—easy to start and soon impossible to stop. America’s founders, steeped in history as few of our contemporaries are, were acutely aware of how easily factional enmities deliver free peoples into the hands of emperors. America is already advanced in this vicious cycle....
For those of you who are particularly dense, I'll repeat this:
Sad to say, we can expect Congress, including the current "leaders," to continue their moral jackwaddery. It's what they do.
HT: Grim
Yes. And current "leaders" in Congress were present for that abortion of the Constitution; many of them were active participants in the crime.
...Obama has been our first emperor. A Donald Trump presidency, far from reversing the ruling class’s unaccountable hold over American life, would seal it. Because Trump would act as our second emperor, he would render well-nigh impossible our return to republicanism....
We observed a few months back, that Trump is just another Obozo, but with bad hair. They do not completely share policy positions, but their M.O. will be near-identical. Sad to say, we can expect Congress, including the current "leaders," to continue their moral jackwaddery. It's what they do.
...Neither Obama nor Trump seem to know or care that cycles of reciprocal resentment, of insults and injuries paid back with ever more interest and ever less concern for consequences, are the natural fuel of revolutions—easy to start and soon impossible to stop. America’s founders, steeped in history as few of our contemporaries are, were acutely aware of how easily factional enmities deliver free peoples into the hands of emperors. America is already advanced in this vicious cycle....
For those of you who are particularly dense, I'll repeat this:
Sad to say, we can expect Congress, including the current "leaders," to continue their moral jackwaddery. It's what they do.
HT: Grim
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