If Congress, representing us, voted for it, and we, through our taxes, paid for it, it would be fine. Presidents are renters. The House belongs to America, not the temporary occupant and his rich friends. He never asked us. They never stopped it. 49.8% in the popular vote was not an “overwhelming mandate.” Neither was a decisive electoral victory in a system overwhelmingly skewed to rural areas over the total populace. It was a four year rental agreement. That’s in the original ownership document. Of course, if the maintenance company we voted to hire to look after our considerable assets … Continue reading Whose House?

Worth pondering. Alexander Hamilton and James Madison told us to care for this beloved country and warned us about this moment. “Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; … Continue reading The Weak and the Strong