These types of cases are going to go before the Supreme Court. It is very likely there will be at least 2 appointments in the next 4 years. Unfortunately, none of the justices getting ready to retire are on the conservative side (that's because prince George recruited young'uns), but I suspect we may see the first impeachment of a justice, Clarance "pubic hair" Thomas, Alito or Scalia, all of them are suspect of something (best case they all get caught with their hand in the corporate cookie jar and it swings the court back to the people, I can dream...).
Currently, with "Corporations are people, my friends" as the guiding principle of this court, we have to work tirelessly to assure the other two branches remain under the guiding hand of the people. No matter how weak the republicans appear this go-around, they own the companies that make the "black boxes" we use to vote. We have to overwhelm the ballot box so there is NO QUESTION about who won.
That goes for the down-ticket races as well. As we have seen since the 2010 election, without support (meaning a majority of Democrats in the House and Senate) we will not be able to get all the things we need to get done, and there is a lot of elephant poo still needing to be swept up all around this country!
The repugs only want to follow the Constitution when it suites them and their needs. They want a country where the corporate song is sung before the national anthem, they want a country where those that have can keep and those that don't can suck on the repug's Cadillac tail pipe. Only they get to voice their opinion because they see themselves as the ruling class.
Nothing new here, what we are seeing are the modern "Hoover-villes" and there were those that were injured and died during those protests as well. I find it ironic those pointing to the sacred document of the Constitution saying, "We want to go back to what our founding fathers created" and yet when that includes freedom of speech for all... Well, that's not what they meant...
We suffer from years of the "NIMBY" syndrome. Yes, I believe in a person's right to do x or y, but not in my back yard. Running a people-powered government is messy, complicated, slow, and thought-provoking. That last one, thought-provoking, is the root of the issue.
Over time, we've abdicated our Constitutionally given responsibility to run our country. Slowly, we've thought less and less about what it takes to have a well-run, functional system seeing to the basic tenants of our own governance within the first paragraph;
"to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."
It's that simple, period.
Take each of those and think about our current republican run house. The Oath they took to protect and defend this Constitution... They are a farce and worse, they are undermining this country's very foundation. They are termites eating away at the centuries old timbers, rotting away the freedoms we fought and died to protect. When they curse the government, they curse the people.
They don't want to be responsive to the people, because their model is one of graft and greed. To them, justice is a roadblock, domestic tranquility means people have time to watch what they do in Washington. They "
prefer to work in the shadows." As for the "common" defense, what they commonly want to defend is their special interests, their oil fields and the oil fields of their "friends" as an example.
We are under attack and sadly it is within our own borders, from those choosing to call themselves "patriots". They are not patriots and never will be, as long as they hold the vision they hold for this country. They have lost the ability to see the larger picture. The one defined in the first paragraph of our Constitution. Their success in obfuscating, using smoke and mirrors to hide their true agenda; to destroy this more perfect Union in favor of something we left over two-hundred and thirty years ago.
Theirs is a world of absolutes, no compromise, and only room for their beliefs, period. Reducing through fiat freedoms we've held dear for centuries. They will continue to push and scream and cross their arms and re-tell history in their image. They will advocate for the bullies and malcontents. They will find those they can misinform and misdirect to maintain domestic unrest because in confusion they can, and will steal.
Should the House and Senate fall, the Supreme Court would be the last defender of our Constitution, so it does matter who the President is. May it work out for "We the People."
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