akatheweatherdsoul on Nostr: It’s a simple idea: less government, less spending. A smaller government means less ...
It’s a simple idea: less government, less spending. A smaller government means less bureaucracy. Strong borders, a strong military, and a representative government that serves the will of the people.
The Founders knew that protecting and sustaining this idea would require a monumental effort by free men. Yet today, what remains is but a shadow of their original intent.
It didn’t take long for the powerful, the wealthy, the industrious, and the corrupt to manipulate and distort the words and meaning of our sacred documents. So much so that recently, Representative Jamie Raskin suggested we are in a “post-Constitutional” society. In a speech at Harvard Law School, he even encouraged students to consider drafting a new Constitution.
This brings me back to a claim I made earlier this week: the Democratic Party is backed into a corner.
Either the Democrats—and the establishment Republicans—must admit that this country, its government, and its administration are still functioning within the means of the Constitution, or they must concede that the great experiment has failed and must be scrapped and rebuilt from the ground up.
That, essentially, would mean a political, social, and economic revolution—one that would fundamentally restructure this country. And whatever form it takes, its values and ideas would be challenged before the digital signatures even finish recording on the network servers.
But doesn’t a restructuring of the Constitution, the nation, and its representation also imply the total forfeiture of the departments, agencies, and bureaucracy that currently exist?
Or is this really just about who is in power at this moment in history—where the pendulum of ideas swings ever further left and right?
If I were a constitutional professor instructing my students on the future of this nation, I would first caution them to understand why these documents were written and why the original Bill of Rights still holds true today. I would have them study the men who crafted these principles, the era in which they lived, and how our current system has been bastardized to serve itself rather than the people.
Finally, I would challenge them to develop ideas that would prevent the government from circumventing the Constitution—so that this great country, this great experiment, even in its division, might come together and thrive for centuries to come.
The Founders knew that protecting and sustaining this idea would require a monumental effort by free men. Yet today, what remains is but a shadow of their original intent.
It didn’t take long for the powerful, the wealthy, the industrious, and the corrupt to manipulate and distort the words and meaning of our sacred documents. So much so that recently, Representative Jamie Raskin suggested we are in a “post-Constitutional” society. In a speech at Harvard Law School, he even encouraged students to consider drafting a new Constitution.
This brings me back to a claim I made earlier this week: the Democratic Party is backed into a corner.
Either the Democrats—and the establishment Republicans—must admit that this country, its government, and its administration are still functioning within the means of the Constitution, or they must concede that the great experiment has failed and must be scrapped and rebuilt from the ground up.
That, essentially, would mean a political, social, and economic revolution—one that would fundamentally restructure this country. And whatever form it takes, its values and ideas would be challenged before the digital signatures even finish recording on the network servers.
But doesn’t a restructuring of the Constitution, the nation, and its representation also imply the total forfeiture of the departments, agencies, and bureaucracy that currently exist?
Or is this really just about who is in power at this moment in history—where the pendulum of ideas swings ever further left and right?
If I were a constitutional professor instructing my students on the future of this nation, I would first caution them to understand why these documents were written and why the original Bill of Rights still holds true today. I would have them study the men who crafted these principles, the era in which they lived, and how our current system has been bastardized to serve itself rather than the people.
Finally, I would challenge them to develop ideas that would prevent the government from circumventing the Constitution—so that this great country, this great experiment, even in its division, might come together and thrive for centuries to come.