I live in the state of Alabama where college football rocks and rules. When you come to Alabama either by birth or relocation, one of the first things one must do is declare allegiance to Alabama or Auburn. Once I overheard two people talking about the importance of the Alabama Auburn football rivalry: One guy said "winning that game is a matter of life and death". The other said, "oh no, it's much more important than that". The real question is whether it's more important than the institution of college football, namely the game. If one team is willing to win at all costs no matter what including lying, cheating, using players that are ineligible, or even bribing the officials, what happens to the game?
On a more serious note: What happens when our nation operates on a win at all costs basis? What happens when domestic policy, foreign policy, fiscal policy, moral policy, and everything else especially politics operates on this basis? What happens to the game? What happens to the country?
Look around! Fact is our political parties have failed us. One has no soul; the other has no backbone. Every decision is based on party politics and the country be damned. The concern is on buzz words like "optics" and "snap polling" for decision making by our so called leaders. Congresspersons and Senators vote the "party line" most of the time so they can be loyal "team members". Often they vote for legislation without having even read the bill. The "cheerleaders" rush out to lead the cheers and whip the votes. The home team must win at all costs. Ideology overrules intelligence as haste make waste. Long after the stadium empties and the lights are turned out, "We The People" are left to clean up the mess with our tax dollars. Case in point: half a BILLION dollars a year of our taxes go to Planned Parenthood for the institutionalized killing of the almost born and the selling of their body parts . Some of that $$ goes back to some "champion" like Nancy Pelosi who runs interference for PP and wins the prestigious prize of "PP Woman of the Year" award for her trophy case.
Despite their flaws as human beings, our founding fathers were exceptionally brilliant. They really devised a wonderful system and Constitution. Notice I said wonderful., not perfect. In my humble opinion, one of the biggest errors they made was missing the fact that there would be those that would actually choose to make lifetime careers out of being "public servants" because the founders missed the point of servants becoming rulers as in "an elite ruling class". For nearly a century "We The People" have stayed silent while our public education system has been dumbed down to the point at which our young not only do not know who "We The People" are but know practically nothing about the founding of our country and why it is indeed exceptional. "We the People" have watched in silence as manners have been replaced by rudeness, decency replaced by crudeness, self reliance replaced by dependency, a hand up replaced by a handout, and Judeo/Christian Values replaced by anything goes. Our civilized society is on the brink of being a footnote in history. We must stop the madness. We have all heard the expression "throwing the baby out with the bath water". That's what happens when a Constitutional Republic abandons its Constitution and then says "the system is broken". It's like a child killing its parents and then crying that he/she is an orphan. After nearly seven years of "pushing a chain up the hill" and "chasing a penny with a nickel" maybe; just maybe its time to try restoring America to the Constitutional Republic by, for, and of the People that it was founded, created and blessed by God to be instead of attempting to transform Her into something never envisioned nor intended. Actually we should be hopeful in that the mere fact that our republic has withstood this assault for so long yet still stands. For ourselves, our children, their children, and future generations of Americans, We The People must rediscover America and decide if we want to Restore Her to the original model as designed or continue to transform into oblivion.
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