Former President Bill Clinton is out there decrying popular incivility toward government which is, and officials who are increasingly recognized as untrustworthy and corrupt.
Billy Jeff, formerly a.k.a. the nation's draft dodging perjurer-in- chief, says it's okay to criticize and disagree with those in public office but that we must do so politely, while making nice with them. Demonizing them is too dangerous, according to the glib and superficially charming former president whose agents 17 years ago gassed and incinerated more than 75 men, women, and children near Waco, Texas.
Bull Bleep ! ! ! !
The hard truth is that almost all of our elected officials and their academic, media, legal and financial institution and corporate supporters are irretrievably corrupt. The corrosive effects of that dishonesty and corruption is destroying the country. For this, they deserve to be despised, demonized, and driven from public life.
The fault however is not theirs alone. We, the people, have until now been complicit in the betrayal of the dream of limited government and individual responsibilities and rights that the founders of the country sought to enshrine in the Constitution.
We have stood by without taking any action, happily enjoying the illusions of prosperity, as our overlords lied from the get go -- from their campaign promises to their uttering oaths of office, falsely swearing to defend, protect, and uphold the Constitution without ever intending to do so. And we remained supine while they stripped away our liberties and frittered away and dissipated our wealth and strength.
There was a time, not that long ago, when the Constitution was celebrated throughout the land. Government was limited and did little. The little that the government did it did exceedingly well. The nation was the freest in the history of the world and its free people created and enjoyed the greatest and wealthiest nation that ever existed. It was not, and never was intended to be a democracy -- the founders recognized the dangers of mob rule. As Benjamin Franklin famously stated, "we [the framers of the Constitution] have given you a republic . . . if you can keep it." We failed to do so
Wealth or the appearance thereof is enervating. It feminizes society, and creates illusions of omnipotence. While we basked in those dreams and illusions, the most craven and politically ambitious among us begin appealing to the mob, bestowing power and distributing the blessings of liberty on those envious of, and a great hunger for material wealth, but little or no interest in the preservation of freedom. The process transformed election campaigns into pandering competitions.
To feed the insatiable hunger, the unchecked lifelong feeders at the public trough increasingly evaded the strictures of the Constitution. Because sizable segments of the citizenry continued to harbor vestiges of reverence for the Constitution, the time serving public officials did this surreptitiously, in small increments, a little bit at a time, instead of openly and honestly attempting to amend it in accordance with the terms it sets forth for doing so. They ultimately transformed the Constitution into the dead letter that it largely is today. We currently have a virtually unlimited federal government . . . a government of men, largely unbound by any laws other than those our professional overlords deem to be desirable at any particular moment in time. The commerce clause has been misshapen, tortured beyond recognition, into a grotesque joke that today permits the government to intrudes into every aspect of our lives. The federal government now does a great deal but almost everything it does it does very poorly and at enormous expense.
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