I think we are living in confusing times. While the pandemic has been "scheduled" by Biden to end in early May of this year, many mandates have been rolled back, there is growing reluctance in the population to accept vaccine boosters or government recommendations regarding health measures, and lawsuits are causing significant setbacks to the globalists' agenda, we are faced with continued planning by the globalists to implement the Great Reset and further their totalitarian agenda, masquerading as benign messengers of health safety and sustainable development goals. While on the one hand, there are signs that the crisis is winding down, there are others suggesting that COVID-19 was just the warm-up for the main event, or that at least we are in the eye of the hurricane.
Thank you, Nancy. I do think you are right about our Constitution being flawed, although I don't know it as well as you, and so I can't specifically comment on the 14th through 17th amendments' flaws. If nothing else, the pandemic has revealed the flaws in our Constitution more strongly, and the need to improve upon our sick and failing system. Thomas Jefferson said, in our founding document, "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. " I think Jefferson might say that that time is now. I'm more optimistic than you, although guardedly, because I believe that Truth and Goodness tend to resurface after periods of being suppressed by the darker forces of our nature. In the perpetual Yin and Yang of history, there will be moments of greatness and light, and moments of depravity and death. It appears our unfortunate fate to be unable to experience the latter, but we can look forward to the return of the light, as virtue dawns gain, like a new day. Keep your hopes up! We'll get there. Tolstoy said, "God sees the truth but waits."
I enjoyed reading your thoughtful post. And I would like to put in my two cents worth. I have a working knowledge of the Constitution and believe it to be a brilliant document with one fatal flaw: no term limits. There are several amendments which were a mistake; particularly the 14th through the 17th. I won't bore you with reasons other than they were antithetical to the original document. At the current time, the Federal government almost exclusively is completely obliterating the Constitution; the government is lawless. The solution lies in my opinion in Article V, and the restitution of the 9th and 10th amendments. Of course, I know that's probably never going to happen, especially with over half the country being beholden to the Federal government. I think I have a better than average understanding of the breadth of the problems, but a viable and realistic answer is beyond my reach. I am rather pessimistic about the future.
Thank you, Nancy. I do think you are right about our Constitution being flawed, although I don't know it as well as you, and so I can't specifically comment on the 14th through 17th amendments' flaws. If nothing else, the pandemic has revealed the flaws in our Constitution more strongly, and the need to improve upon our sick and failing system. Thomas Jefferson said, in our founding document, "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. " I think Jefferson might say that that time is now. I'm more optimistic than you, although guardedly, because I believe that Truth and Goodness tend to resurface after periods of being suppressed by the darker forces of our nature. In the perpetual Yin and Yang of history, there will be moments of greatness and light, and moments of depravity and death. It appears our unfortunate fate to be unable to experience the latter, but we can look forward to the return of the light, as virtue dawns gain, like a new day. Keep your hopes up! We'll get there. Tolstoy said, "God sees the truth but waits."
I enjoyed reading your thoughtful post. And I would like to put in my two cents worth. I have a working knowledge of the Constitution and believe it to be a brilliant document with one fatal flaw: no term limits. There are several amendments which were a mistake; particularly the 14th through the 17th. I won't bore you with reasons other than they were antithetical to the original document. At the current time, the Federal government almost exclusively is completely obliterating the Constitution; the government is lawless. The solution lies in my opinion in Article V, and the restitution of the 9th and 10th amendments. Of course, I know that's probably never going to happen, especially with over half the country being beholden to the Federal government. I think I have a better than average understanding of the breadth of the problems, but a viable and realistic answer is beyond my reach. I am rather pessimistic about the future.