Surrender Is Not an Option

I was thinking about the writers of the US Constitution.

They didn’t have everything right, like not actually recognizing that women and people of color are actually whole human beings, and they were mostly all slave-holders. But they were the most educated men of their time. They were philosophically sophisticated, very broad-minded for their time. They were the intellectual cream of the crop–for their time.

Personal honor and integrity was basic to them, so much that they could not believe or even imagine that the Justices on the Supreme Court bench would ever be less than noble, and actively corrupt and corruptible. They did imagine, but didn’t actually seem to believe that a man like Trump could get through the system to have any chance to head the Executive Branch of the government: They wrote in a few checks to that occurance, like the ‘faithless elector’ possibility, without fully appreciating that in the actual event, no elector in the Electoral College would have the courage to exercise that right.

And so–Here we are.

The Constitution is under attack by the people in our society most entirely unlike the originators, even while they wield like a bludgeon the excised bits that seem to support their particular causes and desires.

The Supreme Court is as venal and corruptible as anyone with power to shape the nation has ever been.

The establishment of separation of Church and State is being simply ignored by the pseudo-Christians currently running amok in our government, and pretending that unquestionable Right is on their side as they force their delusional Truths into laws of child-indoctrination of the most egregious kind.

And even though none of this is happening in the shadows, none of it is hidden or disguised, the people of intelligence, integrity, and clarity are so courteous that they are doing precious little about it.

Judges can be impeached. Traitors and those who encourage them can be prosecuted. Bullies who thrive on the gentleness and politeness of their victims can be slapped down.

It is appalling that no one is making the moves to take away the stolen power from those who are actively working to end America’s great experiment in democracy.

The power we as individuals have, of course, is to vote.

Not voting is still a vote.

Voting for someone who can’t possibly win is not rebellion, it is surrender.

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