Our National Tragedy
At left we see yet one more reminder of the disaster taking place in the United States.
Our Founding Fathers made huge sacrifices for us, and we’ve seen fit to elect an insane dictator to run roughshod over our beloved Constitution.
We hear that democracies do not descend into authoritarian regimes overnight. That’s true, but what’s happened here has been quite rapid indeed.
It took Adolph about two months from it being appointed chancellor of Germany in the Weimar Republic to the passage of The Enabling Acts granting him dictatorial power, which he consolidated into total dictatorship in about a year and a half.
I’m reminded of a comment attributed to Benjamin Franklin when asked what form of government the founders had established.
“A republic, madam, if you can keep it.”
Of course, it was and is a democratic constitutional republic, but was initially one where only white male landowners of sufficient property were permitted to vote. Over the last century, we have wisely expanded the meaning of Liberty. That wisdom is being attacked and abandoned to a level that is quite properly frightening to the sane.