…The Preservation Of Our Liberty…

From the Vanishing American:

As I write this, it seems to me that our country is in dire peril. Our traditions, our way of life, which are uniquely American, are now being undermined and eroded. Our sovereignty is under attack. I could go on enumerating the challenges we are up against, but we know them all too well, those of us who care deeply about our country and our people.

But the biggest danger sign to me is that we seem to have lost our representative form of government. It appears as though ‘we, the people’ are no longer the repositories of power in our country. ‘Our’ leaders apparently no longer answer to us; they seem not only to be operating outside the will of the American people, but in open and brazen defiance of the will of the people.

There is no better evidence of this than the current borders crisis, in which ‘our’ leaders defiantly refuse to control our borders and enforce the laws of the land. The fact that they have forced this ‘amnesty’ atrocity on us, and our seeming helplessness in trying to stop the open borders juggernaut, suggests that our elected officials have gone rogue. We no longer seem to have representation, except for a few isolated voices in Congress. And one wonders if even these voices in the wilderness will eventually ‘compromise’ away what is left of our sovereignty. There is less faith in our system and our ‘leadership’ than at any time in my memory.

Since we, the people, seem no longer relevant to our electeds, who exactly are they beholden to? Whose bidding are they doing, since they are obviously not doing ours? There are many possible answers to that question. Without wandering into ‘tinfoil hat’ territory and indulging in conspiracy-theory-mongering, it’s hard to explain the behavior of our electeds.

The great Thomas Jefferson said, in 1787, ‘The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.’ It is so important to remember this; we can’t expect the government to solve the problem when it seems that our leaders are compromised, and they are part of the problem.

But if Jefferson was right (and he usually was), then it’s up to us, you and me, America.

Read the whole thing.

H/T: New English Review

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