What's the Point

by

       M. Richard Maxson

     
      “That's the good thing about being president. I can do whatever I want.” – Barack Obama.
       
      Fascism: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control. (Webster)

      What is the point of having our Constitution?  With the president ignoring existing laws, rewriting his own laws and preparing to make new laws on his own, what’s the point of Congress? What’s the point of laws at all? The Constitution was to be the law of the land but what happens if the majority in power reinterpret this guiding force to suit their own wants?  It states "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," but it does not state that there should be special privileges for certain groups. Nor is there a clause for “good ideas” or “good intentions.”Yet, today, everywhere is evident that this is what is happening.

     The US has abandoned the rule of law, betraying its own constitution, whistle blower Thomas Andrews Drake, recently stated in an interview. “The irony is that the US has abandoned the rule of law,” Drake, who also revealed NSA secrets in the past, said of Snowden’s leaks. “They’ve unchained itself from their own constitution – the mechanism by which we govern ourselves. And when you ban the real law and use a secret law and secret interpretations of law, we’re in a whole new ball game. It’s a Pandora’s Box.”

      The Socialization of the United States began years ago and it has come to fruition with this administration.  There was a time that presidents would be restricted by Congress but no more. With Harry Reid and Democrats controlling the Senate, President Obama knows he’ll face no consequences for his lawlessness. If this president wants it, then the president and his enabling Democratic congressional fold won’t wait for such inconveniences as Congress passing a bill. He is poised to simply impose his de facto ideals on the country without a vote. He and Attorney General Eric Holder are moving to unilaterally subvert the law as it currently exists, changing it by decree, not “democracy.” With the President setting the example, subordinates and bureaucrats are emboldened to do the same.  If the government can use the muscle of the Internal Revenue Service to keep groups opposed to the Democratic administration tied up in red tape or litigation in an election year, then enough games like that can make our elections meaningless too. None of this is allowed under the law, but it all goes unchallenged by the media.

       The media has fawned over his every move. A recent poll released last week reported that 7 percent of American journalists say they are Republicans. Recently, even top journalists from The New York Times and NBC News acknowledged at a journalist forum that “that there is absolutely a left-wing bias” in the media. It is this bias that President Obama has come to depend on to advance his radical agenda. With the help of a very eager and compliant press willing to do their bidding such as MSNBC’s Chris Hayes recent diatribe "The Problem is the Constitution."  This and other oratories like that, shows that we are heading downhill away from the ideals of the Founding Fathers at an alarming speed. The White House controls talking points, advances their left wing agenda, and molds public opinion through propaganda disguised as news. This seedy alliance between the White House and the liberal media poses a clear and present ideological danger to our Republic. Thomas Jefferson’s fears have been realized: We have mega-government without properly functioning newspapers(media).

      
      The president knows his actions never will receive the context and disinfecting sunlight his predecessors faced. He has a clear road ahead to do whatever he chooses. We as a nation are at a critical decision point. Do we want to continue down the road toward Democratic/Corporate Socialism, where all of our basic needs are met from cradle to grave, the only price being total subservience to the government, or alternatively, to reverse direction and go back up the road toward personal responsibility and individual freedom? We must look back and remember the foundations and timeless principles upon which this nation was built and recommit ourselves to them before it is too late.