The question that, so far as I can see, nobody is asking is this: what is to be done when political systemic corruption is so deep and so obvious that no reasonable hope remains that those in whom the Public Trust has been vested will do the right things in a given situation such as the one at hand?
Protest has through the decades availed us nothing. Mass disobedience? We who claim ourselves lovers of liberty cannot get it up to put a brewery out of business, so why speak of such actions to a population that has thus far been unwilling to get out of its recliners? Impotent half-measures at best avail nothing effective. The Constitution is not that much help precisely because it expresses no remedy with sufficient explicitness for those who are morally bereft by choice, whether conscious or otherwise.
If special investigators can be called upon, who makes the call? Un-special prosecutors? Judges? Congressmen? Presidents? The village dog catcher? How does one pick such prosecutors in an environment that has gone so sour with partisan bile, bias, and blatant corruption that no longer makes even the least effort to disguise itself?
It is clear that the sword may have to play a part in the remedy, but who makes that call and by what means would it be taken into action without precipitating civil war due either to the gross misunderstandings or the logical extensions of the bias and corruption under which we now so thoroughly suffer?
We're in what I can only describe as a "tight corner", and there is going to be hell to pay no matter what we do now, thanks to the current state of mean corruption in the American soul. We have allowed things to go far too far, such that fighting for all we are worth now shows a greatly attenuated promise for success. And even if "we" win, what are the prospects that we only serve ourselves to perpetrate yet another flavor of tyranny upon ourselves due to the self-same corruptions that got us into the last one in the first place?
Investigate EVERYBODY in "government", try the guilty, execute them en masse, confiscate every asset they hold, reduce their immediate families to forced penury for no less than five generations, and hold up what we have done as a warning to all comers that the era of the tyrant is over, once and for all and that the only zero-tolerance policy shall be regarding the violation of a Man's rights by anyone who takes an oath of good faith and competent service. Is such a dream even possible any longer? Is our corruption not so extensive, so broad, and so bottomlessly deep that such outcomes and the maintenance of a victorious state do not prove as ephemeral now as they have been in all revolutions past?
I want a nation where if you cannot put up, don't step up because you will be punished with grim and just vengeance, PERIOD. Such brutish force is all that such people understand and respect. Anything less is to flirt with suicide.
Like it or not, the time is upon us to choose who and what we and our posterity are to be: Free men or Weakmen - willing slaves, grateful for the paltry crumbs that fall from the whipmaster's table and ever subject to his whim and caprice. There is no sanctum of evasion this time because evasion is, in fact, the default vote for slavery, pretty or otherwise.
So take care as to your decision because yours is not the only life to be ruined by choosing incorrectly.
God bless you all, and until next time please accept my best wishes.
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