I believe we must quickly take polls via several reputable polling agencies and determine the public sentiment over the rule of law, or the rule of dictators and authoritarians. Should America pivot off the U.S. Constitution, the rule of law as it were? Let's find out with intensive polling. Is the great history of America over and should we accept a new political position where the people have less political power?
Dear reader, dear voter, please read this blog and diary it forward to July 4th, 2026. I will be 88 in March of this year and not in the best of health, I don't expect to be here, but please review it in July 2026.
My blog this week is about the United States and the rule of law, and the current philosophy of our American politicians.
George Washington and those 55 men who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 were there to construct a “more perfect union”. They had beaten the greatest army in the world in 1782, Great Britain. But now they needed a new more comprehensive and viable form of government because of the failure of the Articles of Confederation. George Washington actually became depressed over the chaos and mayhem of that colonial period. He knew it was necessary to find good government from a new and different script.
It was made clear by him that despite his many triumphs in the war and as a politician, he still rejected any idea of being a king, a dictator or an authoritarian. In 1787 the 55 Founding Fathers worked three hot summer months in Philadelphia to complete a new government with more central authority and with checks and balances to present an orderly rule of law. It was built in three branches, the Legislative, the Executive and the Judicial. They rejected power and money for themselves and decided to grant the people the power to determine what direction the United States should go politically.
Would the Founding Fathers be pleasantly surprised that their U.S. Constitution has lasted 248 years so far? I believe they would correctly be proud of their political creation lasting this long.
But now we must recognize that Plato centuries ago said, “democracies pass into despotism”. The people seem to lose the force of their political convictions and will follow easy answers often grounded in misinformation, and dis-information as tyranny becomes the stronger persuasion in the marketplace. That has happened throughout the world for centuries. Now many forces in the U.S. politically and socially are looking outside of America for political heroes, Hungary, Russia and perhaps Germany in 1933. George Washington, the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan are being lost as a place to turn to at this political time in history. Political power and money is playing a much larger role than ever before in the U.S. Gone is the sacrificing spirituality of those 55 men in Philadelphia so long ago.
What to do? Should be we give up and give in, or fight louder to keep the rule of law? The people must decide! Fair minded, truth seeking politicians must decide!
I believe we must quickly take polls via several reputable polling agencies and determine the public sentiment over the rule of law, or the rule of dictators and authoritarians. Should America pivot off the U.S. Constitution, the rule of law as it were? Let's find out with intensive polling.
Do we want the great history of America to lose its decency and nobility as the leader of the free world, and to simply melt away with indifference?
Let's face the political music right now.
Are we going to continue to pledge allegiance to our flag, our U.S. Constitution and the rule of law, or go where half of the world's countries have gone, to dictatorship and authoritarianism?
Dear reader let's examine the numbers and the sooner the better!
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