A post this morning (5/24/2020) on social media had me thinking about what happens when the governed lose faith in the government? Our history is built on the very premise the power of government comes not from some absolute right, but from the governed themselves. This was clearly articulated in the second paragraph of our Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.[1]
Our founding fathers did not take lightly the steps they were about to take in their decision to abolish the ties with Great Britain but recognized what they viewed as oppressive taxation without representation in the government itself was untenable.
It seems to me for all their elite education and learning the progressive/liberal left have lost sight of the wisdom of these words. This pandemic is really bringing this into sharp focus, and although President Trump is doing an incredibly poor job explaining it, it seems to me he intuitively understands this and his actions speak to the common man or woman in how they want to live their lives. Trump has all the experts around him and chooses to follow his own path. Meanwhile all the experts and the political opposition are doing everything they can think of to shame him and the nation into doing what they think we should do.
We start with creating the panic, educating the masses on how to act, and then demanding they act by the prescribed solution sets. When education fails to achieve universal compliance our “experts” in science and the media begin a campaign of shaming those who find the burden becoming unreasonable. As our founders recognized we are for the most part willing to suffer through some burdens to maintain the government but at some point, those liabilities become so onerous rebellion becomes inevitable.
We take pride in our elections as a routine form of revolution. As I think about this ongoing crisis the question for this coming election is not who is the best candidate, or VP candidate. As much as the media would like that to be the question, the real issue is how much government are we willing to put up with, and who represents that choice of how we want to live our individual lives? I wonder -- if through their actions, the Democratic governors of the North and Northwest will actually hand the GOP a revolutionary victory?
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