collective minds lost

As I sat contemplating my thoughts for this piece, a thought struck. Every time I write, my goal is to provoke others into thinking about the quagmire the nation faces. History, a barometer of the future, especially if one does not bother to learn the past so it doesn’t become the present, none less the future. Because that then becomes someone else’s problem, no? Yet, as I pound out keystrokes bi-weekly, it’s apparent most are more inclined to memes for their edification. Except, education through memes is exactly why the nation is discombobulated today. Example: A recent meme I’ve seen floating about is the new fourth branch of the government; Elon Musk. The intent, I believe, to propose there is no such thing, except there is: WE THE PEOPLE. The nation’s Framers proposed such: The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT of the People. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority (Federalist 22).

Now, like my angst in writing, me being a poor American of Mexican/Italian descent, my inner self is an argument in confliction. One side wants to siesta, while the other side always thinks: Manga! The problem, which side is right, as both are wrong, due mostly to the sleeping/eating disorder, including the fact that both deny fault in the innertube that increasingly encompasses my waist. Which makes my dilemma much like the current political atmosphere of Democrat/Republican. In truth, history being repeated, like when Federalist/Anti-Federalist went head-to-head, only on steroids. Except, in their day, it was part the desire for some to maintain State (Anti-Federalist) over Federal (Federalist) control: Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter will readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments - and the perverted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, or will flatter themselves with the fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the Empire into several partial confederacies than from its union under one government (Federalist 1). Never forget: Power is an elixir!

Now, among the many issues being battled is the confliction to weed out fraud, waste, and corruption. But because of Party, and the recent transfer of power, there’s either none or a mountain thereof. And the nation’s debt, which is growing (much like my waistline) to an untenable amount, has the potential to bankrupt the country. Yet, the recent firing of seventeen inspectors general launched a whirlwind of debate. To which, were they not to be the frontline protectors of WE THE PEOPLE, against the aforementioned exposed fraud, waste, and corruption? Yet, they apparently turned blind eyes. The adage: Hear no evil; Speak no evil; See no evil their motto. Like those elected as representatives and senators.

And that’s where a conundrum presents: Had no important step been taken by the leaders of the Revolution for which a precedent could not be discovered, no government established of which an exact model did not present itself, the people of the United States might, at this moment have been numbered among the melancholy victims of misguided councils, must at best have been laboring under the weight of some of those forms which have crushed the liberties of the rest of mankind. Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society. They reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe. They formed the design of a great Confederacy, which it is incumbent on their successors to improve and perpetuate (Federalist 14).

And with current societal trends, a compromise to follow the Constitution should be in order. Only, it’s an impossibility, as Party has taken control of the narrative, WE THE PEOPLE, having surrendered power. The begging question is why: Where the whole power of the government is in the hands of the people, there is the less pretence for the use of the violent remedies in partial or occasional distempers of the State. The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative Constitution, is a change of men (Federalist 21).

Anyway, since the desire to work things out constitutionally appears unlikely, like a workout would thus eliminate the circumference problem of my waist, as my solution is negated by the Mexican/Italian war waged around whether I lift the fork … or rest my eyes. Either choice, like the country’s debt, my innertube will grow ever larger. Worse, throw in age, a slowing metabolism and gadzooks, maybe I’ll be Santa this year after all. And, in that world, isn’t giving gifts on credit for someone else to pay all American? Just like Congress’ job is to spend more than it takes in. Oh wait, they can just increase taxes to increase spending, without care over the increasing debt. But those inspectors general were supposed to have our backs, only they didn’t. Just like every other politician who abandoned their responsibility, including WE THE PEOPLE. Oh, and if you like the words here; share these words out there.