Opus 2025-166: Republic of Verbs and Nouns

Checks and balances.  Check and balance.  One is a set of nouns, the other is a set of verbs.  Both are necessary to maintain the republic.

In times of integrity and minor differences it’s enough to have these concepts as nouns.  The Founding Fathers set up a government which was supposed to contain automatic checks to abuse of power and difference of opinion.  It gave great power to minorities so that they could resist the tyranny of the majority.  This is why we have an electoral college.  This is why we have three branches with separation of powers.  This is why we have super majorities.  This is why we have regular elections.  And this is why we have the verbs.

It’s always a possibility that individuals and groups will arise to manipulate and distorted the basics of the republic.  Not only is it a possibility, it is a certainty.  The time will come when individuals and groups think they know what is best for everyone.  They will use their position of power to distorted the process of civil government by the people.

We’ve been seeing this, as the so-called deep state has been dipping into the coffers and using taxpayers money to attack and enslave the taxpayers, not to mention lining their own pockets.  It is really very clever, and was covered up very well for years.  Who knows, maybe it is the default status of government and civilization.  The current force that is pushing it is using federal judges as trump cards, or anti-Trump cards.

I’m sure that just like any other group of people, there are many judges who are guided by integrity in the law.  The problem is, these are not the judges that are sought out by the forces of the deep state.  They carefully select the judges that they bring lawsuits in front of, knowing full well that those judges are more interested in their ideology, and their bribes, than in the law.  They use the rule of law against those who actually believe in it.

We all see it happening every day.  We also should be aware of the fact that when it happens in the direction we want we tend to ignore it.  Admit it.  We only see it when it goes against our desires.  But it’s always there.  The question is what do we do about it?

Again, the rule of law and the checks and balances of our republic give us a way out.  For federal officials one of the ways out is called impeachment.  Progressives* have use this brilliantly in trying to keep Donald Trump out of office.  They don’t give up when they lose.  They work overtime to cripple him once he is elected.  They don’t like it so they use the rules in order to cheat in the game.  What works for the goose should work for the gander.  Why we are reluctant to use this tool, I don’t know.

It is time.

We need to get serious about saving the republic.  I don’t want to see the violent outbreak of a French Revolution.  I don’t want the dissolving of the republic as happened to Rome.  We don’t have the structure for a Glorious Revolution like England.  If we want to preserve the Republic and the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and we need to start using the tools that are given to us.

It’s time to impeach.  Remove people who insist on implementing their personal agenda rather than following the rule of law.  Do it by the book.  Observe due process.  Demand that it be speedy and in front of their peers.

It is time.

*(Liberals, educators, cultural Marxists, the media, socialists, communists, crony capitalists, fascists (I repeat myself), elites, Rinos, Democrats, leftists, Never Trumpers, Antifa, BLM, MSM, Deep State, etc.  Synonym for swamp dwellers)

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