a national death spiral?

My understanding of education is the repetition of subject matter until one memorizes the information presented, thereby increasing their overall mastery of the given topic. Some may view it as a redundancy of action until one is adept at the task. Or, in another parlance, knowledge is power, allowing one the ability to discern whether they are being duped, or at least cognizant of the deception taking place. Although, the inverse being ignorance, allows the ability for others to control those less knowledgeable. And make no mistake, in the political realm, those in power believe themselves above those who voted them in. And yes, America isn’t supposed to be what it has become. Those who vote were to hold the power, while those entrusted to govern were to constitutionally do the will of those who voted them in, not party or lobby, understanding:

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government. (Federalist 51)

An original opposition to the Constitution: the juxtaposition of a federal head in comparison to the previous monarchy the people suffered under. Those wary were concerned of too much power being entrusted, the potential to become overreaching had to be protected against. Now, almost two-hundred-fifty years later, the nation is full-circle back to where it started, through a growing vicious cycle of government overreach. No longer the check and balance as all three branches are corrupt. Although vexingly for some, the Framers portended the possibility of trouble, and placed an overall keeper of the watch:

Independent of parties in the National Legislature itself, as often as the period of discussion arrived, the State Legislatures, who will always be not vigilant but suspicious and jealous guardians of the rights of the citizens against encroachments from the Federal Government, will constantly have their attention awake to the conduct of the national rulers, and will be ready enough, if any thing improper appears, to sound the alarm to the people, and not only to be the VOICE, but, if necessary, the ARM of their discontent. (Federalist 26)

Yet somehow stupidly, America, through government itself has been in a full-fledged transition on multiple fronts with States complicit and citizens complacent. Only this time, none for the betterment of society, and an abject intentional failure of those entrusted to ensure the safety and prosperity of all. And amazingly, one is a polar shift from a nation of laws to a nation of lawlessness. A modern enactment of Nero fiddling while Rome burns as multiple factions want to achieve anarchy. Plus, while society and infrastructure are destroyed, the ones doing so are praised by those holding office. A government desire for overall control and complete centralized power. The very thing our forebears strove to prevent, perceiving:

It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust. On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well-informed judgment, their interest can never be separated; and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the People than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious Court to the people; commencing Demagogues, and ending Tyrants. (Federalist 1)

And in opposition to those destroying, are those who’ve abided by the rules, but are now being subjected to the government desirous of wholesale change, autarchy. Their rights usurped for perceived benefits never stated, the annulment thereof based on the depravations of those inciting and those sworn to uphold and defend, who want the Constitution abolished. The whole, a two-front war of intentional discombobulation to divide the people, achieving overall control of the people, while the Constitution, designed to defend and protect is openly dismantled.

By today’s new standards, the events taking place are evolution, while every branch of government involved in the upheaval, promotes a vicious cycle of twisting intent to meet agenda. In foresight and retrospect, one should fully gain the knowledge of design, learn the purpose of deceit, demand the why of what is taking place while questioning the imbalance of “liberty and justice for all” (pledge of allegiance), understanding:

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation. (Federalist 15)

But if government suspends what it enacts to enforce? When the government itself upsets societal norms, implementing the inverse, while only pursuing selected justice, and even deigns knowledge of laws being broken, to push aside truth so agenda can replace intent, something’s amiss. God gave man perfect law, including free will, which can disrupt the balance of both God’s and man’s law. Except when those in power are either above, or simply reject what they enacted, what prevails?

Lord Acton in 1887 wrote: Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The Constitution was written in a manner to keep power from corrupting, and government reigned, but there is an inherent problem with man. He is blinded by greed, including the desire for power, who will do evil enough to gain the power to control. Copyrighted in 1957 by the General Features Corporation: A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have. Profound words that require individuals have an understanding and knowledge of our Constitution, including what the words meant to the Framers.   

Laws and deception should be opposed, as laws preserve tranquility, while deception destroys it. If “free will” was always held in check, laws would be a near paucity as the Ten Commandments. Yet, from Eve, an apple, and Satan; Judas, thirty pieces of silver, Pharisees, and deception; American government has proven quite parallel and similar. Legislators have allowed greed to control outcomes, the result of intended actions, or better, willful deceit.

Anyway, going back to move forward, while in my elementary school world, redundancy was the norm to learning, but every subject I entertained was a disaster. In English, I didn’t know a verb from a noun, or an adverb from adjective. Adding insult, math sunk me. Double digit addition had me removing my shoes and socks for additional counting digits. When my fourth-grade teacher questioned what I was doing, looking up, I gave her an empathic yet one-word questioning answer, Math?! When I started learning multiplication, division, and fractions, it was a lost cause. History: didn’t Catholics build America? At the time, everyone wondered if the inside of my skull was the same as my less than cognizant brain, empty.

So, as I look about our nation and see the discombobulation taking place, I’m beginning to wonder if my so-called reality of being the dumbest one in school then, today I might be considered an intellectual. Which conjured Ricology. A redundantly written repetition of constitutional thought as ignorance of knowledge is what allowed things to get this bad. Or possibly citizens just too indolent to care, until. I love my country; I despise what my government has become.