As a country, the United States of America (US) exists with its Constitution as its foundation. As its foundation crumbles, so too does everything it supports. Many are saying the US is heading toward a second Civil War. Truthfully, this country has been locked in a second Civil War for more than a decade where the sole purpose of each of two sides has been to destroy the other side. But how did the US get here?
For more than two centuries, the US Constitution has provided a solid foundation which has been strong enough to support both democracy and the political establishment (The Establishment) consisting of two political parties maintaining 100 percent of the power to govern the US. Though the Constitution was never designed to create a country controlled exclusively by two parties, it has always been able to support The Establishment because there had been enough balance to place a nearly equal amount of stress on each side of the foundation. In the 1860s, that foundation crumbled, and it took strong leadership from people like President Abraham Lincoln to rebuild the foundation and restore the balance required to sustain it into the future.
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From 1789 until the 1850s and again from the late 1860s into the 1990s, The Establishment made up a vast majority of the US Electorate, with each half consisting of nearly 50 percent. All that began to change as the US entered the 21st Century and voters began to become more and more disillusioned with The Establishment and renounce Party affiliation. As of today, it is estimated that less than 25 percent of registered voters are affiliated with the half of The Establishment currently listed on ballots as the Republican Party, while less than 30 percent make up the Democratic Party. That is less than 55 percent of the Electorate holding 100 percent of the power to govern. Is that how democracy is meant to operate?
While many Democrats still get a bad taste in their mouths when they think about President Ronald Reagan, one of the things that made Reagan so successful was his ability to get the two sides of The Establishment to collaborate. Since 2010, however, the US Congress has operated exclusively under the principle that whichever half of The Establishment had control at a given point in time would use their majority to pass legislation without any input or support from the other half. It was that lack of compassion and compromise that began to crack the foundation.
Fast forward to 2016, when the Republican Party itself began to splinter. By 2021, the two very separate and distinct pieces became the Party of Insurrection aka the Party of Trump (PoT) with Donald Trump as its leader and the RINOS (Republicans In Name Only, as Trump would refer to the other piece) with no leaders and no organizational structure.
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Remember, the entire Republican Party for much of the 21st Century was made up of around 25 percent of the US Electorate. Now that the Party has split in two, each piece is considerably less than 25 percent of the Electorate. Because The Establishment has exclusive control of the US Government, the Republican Party is still allotted one of two lines on each ballot in every US election. Whichever piece of the less than 25 percent wins the race will get rewarded with a near 50 percent control of the US Government. Is that democracy?
The Establishment was built to ensure outsiders would have little access to get listed on election ballots and even less of a chance of being elected. Before the splintering of the Republican Party, protecting The Establishment from the rise of third parties had always been the one issue for which Republicans and Democrats could always agree. As the Constitutional foundation continues to crack, however, the chaos resulting from the division of what used to be the Republican Party will soon cause the foundation to completely collapse, just as it did in the 1850s.
Since its formation in 2016, the PoT has been shedding members like a furry dog sheds fur. Does the PoT experience any growth to sustain itself, or does it only shed members? Are the departing members of the PoT joining the ranks of the RINOS, the Democrats, or the Independents? In six years of existence, what is the PoT doing, if anything, to grow its base? Also, how can a Party successfully lead a government when it considers government institutions such as the FBI, the IRS, the CDC, the EPA, and many others to be among its biggest enemies. I can tell you from experience, the FBI has many, many enemies. Those enemies all have one common characteristic – they either are criminals or they love and support criminals.
Rest assured, any enemy of the US Government is an enemy of We the People (WtP), the owners of the US. It is up to WtP to either preserve democracy by repairing the cracks and restoring the Constitutional foundation to be able to withstand the weights of the 21st Century or by letting it be replaced by a huge Trump Tower in 2024, with its brand new foundation designed by one person rather than WtP. Vote for Democrats in November 2022 (VoteBlueIn22) or you’ll be voting to give up the rights of WtP forever.
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