accept it: no one really gives a damn!

Character: moral excellence and firmness.

Integrity: firm adherence to a code of moral value: incorruptibility.

When I published my last piece: illegal immigration, party, politics, and principles, my hope was to convey the necessity of those in power having to stand firmly on a said principle and hold their counterparts to the same standard. The main requirement: It’s incumbent those serving incorporate some semblance of constitutional knowledge. Only, in politics today, that is simply not the case. Because for any constitutional principle to stand, or the Constitution itself to be upheld, it requires one to have character and integrity. Two things wholly absent in American government. Apparent by the dissension over not securing our nation’s border but needing untold billions to fund Ukraine and its battle to secure their border: Let’s make a deal. Yet, in our border plight, any money being requested by those in power is to only make the intake of illegals easier, thus increasing the country’s future voting population while diluting or dissolving national sovereignty. And nothing stateside can be done unless it includes Ukraine. No desire to stop the flow, just facilitate it, and fund another nation while increasing the national debt to numbers unfathomable.

But, in all the ongoing political noise: What is truth? Although, before one can apply any standard of truth, one has to learn the past to make certain the present and future are upheld with a principle of intent that was laid down originally, making none of anything that involves the Constitution rocket science. It only requires the right and wrong of an issue, including the application of character and integrity. Plus, along with character and integrity, a moral compass is demanded. Because without one, character and integrity have no value, which is manifested in the political wars being fought today.

So, while in that vein, to pull a basic concept of truth from the past, when the Framers (Federalists) wanted to sell the Constitution to the masses, they had to create an owner’s manual of sorts: The Federalist (papers). As one of their desires in designing the Constitution: create a federal head. That being one of the flaws of the Articles, but what the Anti-Federalist considered a snake in the grass. Their memories of the king were still too fresh, thus no federal head in the Articles of Confederation. As well, in the many battles over the document, one was the lack of a Bill of Rights, even though the Framers intentionally billed the package: The government cannot legislate what it cannot control (Federalist 45). A written limitation on the federal government’s ability to control the people. The Federalists belief in a Bill of Rights comparative to the Magna Charta, an agreement between the king and his subjects, but something the Anti-Federalists were adamant about having built in. Why no one today apparently thinks of them over the desire to have government more involved in their lives is beyond my ability to comprehend. And food for thought: In the Constitution’s battle for its birth and the struggle with the Bill of Rights, once adopted, they were considered absolutes, not to be touched. Well, imagine my surprise when President Biden declared they were not absolutes, posing: When one does not learn their history or understand the documents they live under, it becomes easy for those in power to assume control of what is not in their ability to control. A vicious cycle!

 Well, in my world, my wife (Barbara) always wants to do things in odd numbers. Of which I find short sentences of three words impactful, namely: WE THE PEOPLE! Except those three words only matter if one is willing to learn the depth of their intent and design. If not, then there’s always: Ignorance is bliss! And where the nation now stands at thirty-four trillion in debt, one must wonder if Americans are just blissfully ignorant. Especially when the world is on fire and a number of nations are working to dethrone the United States monetarily. And if the said nations succeed, that thirty-four trillion of debt (and growing) will forthrightly obliterate any wealth one believes they have. Plus, and everyone should heed this, every three months the debt increases another trillion dollars in interest alone. Ah yes, to be blissfully ignorant while your government gleefully destroys any future your posterity may be envisioning. The begging question: Why? Think of the national debt if it does not increase one additional dollar (Peter G. Peterson Foundation):

At 34 trillion that’s $259,000 per household or $101,000 per person of debt.

Thirty-four trillion will cover every high school student obtaining a four-year degree for 106 years.

The debt currently grows at 2 billion per day. Talk about compounding!

Finally, it’s equal to the value of economies for China, Germany, Japan, India, and the United Kingdom COMBINED.

So, if one can remove their party blinders, and considering all the issues the nation is currently facing, look up B.R.I.C. and discover what started as four nations: Brazil, Russia, India, and China, then South Africa to become B.R.I.C.S. and their intent to have the dollar no longer the global currency standard. And if one believes it all to be hype, in January (2024), Saudi Arabia, UAE (United Arab Emirates), Egypt, Iran, and Ethiopia signed on. And later in the year, thirty other nations are working to join. Then think, while other nations (and growing) are working to dismantle America as the world’s only superpower, another angst creator works its way through the politics of American government self-destruction: Reparations. Yes, now throw those dollars on the debt heap. Just remember: It’s all part of America’s self-imposed sixty-year war to destroy the nation’s foundational structure.

Anyway, I’ve heard it said about integrity: It’s what one does when no one is looking. Which begs: When legislators are openly obvious about their intents, what does that say about WE THE PEOPLE? I know: Ignorance is bliss, right? Except, only until it isn’t. So, continue fighting for issues that are a smokescreen and have no bearing on the government. Then, let the dollar be devalued, tank the country economically, force citizens into compliance in areas that are blatant prevarications, and when it comes to either the Democrat or Republican party blinders, understand: Our government is intentionally keeping citizens divided through party politics. Then accept the truth: We voted for this! Finally, ask yourself: Which group was more right? Federalist or Anti-Federalist.