Reality We Must Face

"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality" ~ Ayn Rand

For most of the last century, American voters have evaded this reality with a wink and a nod. However, starting with the 2020 general election, American patriots started realizing and recognizing the consequences of having evaded reality for so long. The reality isn’t pretty; in fact, it is downright ugly.

American patriots are seeing exactly what it is like to live in a police state if they fail to follow the tyrannical dictates of the Marxists in charge of the American federal government. Americans are still being held in the District of Columbia jail without a trial since January 2021. These are political prisoners held like in any Marxist gulag. Why? It is because of the severe corruption of individuals in the ruling federal government and their toadies in the Deep State.

The most common type of corruption in government is by those we politely refer to as special interest groups providing cash (a bribe) to elected officials. Sometimes it is direct payments to the politician, but often a direct payment to a staffer or relative (think Hunter Biden), and often it is thinly vailed as a legal campaign contribution.

No matter what it is called, it’s bribery none the less. The quickest way to assess the degree of bribery an elected official has accepted is to compare his or her net worth prior to entering office and current net worth. No matter whether the elected official is in the administrative branch of government, the legislative branch of government, or elected to the judicial branch of government, if the individual’s net worth increases more than a reasonable person would expect it to do on their government salary, corruption is likely in play. When corruption is in play, that bribe money becomes more important than the job they were hired to do by the voters

“Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.” ~ Harry S. Truman

In the judiciary, bribes take a different form. When corrupt politicians are making the appointments to judgeships, the position itself is the bribe. Corrupt individuals will choose to appoint judges who are less than honorable and will follow the ideology of the corrupt person appointing them rather than assure justice is served. When this happens, justice is no longer blind because corruption has put a thumb on the scales of justice.

"Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny." ~ Patrick Henry

Like the judiciary, high level individual government service employees are corrupted because they owe a favor to whoever appointed them. The political appointees are like corrupt judges, more often than not political ideologues doing the bidding of the one who appointed them, and the actual job is secondary, if it is even considered.

Many of the Founding Fathers were highly concerned about the issue of corruption in government. Consider their words.

"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions." ~ James Madison

"A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution." ~ James Madison

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." ~ James Madison

"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." ~ Samuel Adams

"I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue." ~ Samuel Adams

"Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals." ~ Samuel Adams

"Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instrument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer." ~ Alexander Hamilton

"One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are." ~ Alexander Hamilton

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil." ~ Thomas Jefferson

Our forefathers saw it coming. Are we going to allow the corruption to continue and suffer the worsening consequences by simply continuing to evade reality? We will know all too soon.