At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention held Monday, September 17, 1787, Founding Father Benjamin Franklin was asked “What have you wrought?”
He answered, “… a Republic, if you can keep it.”
Why is the Republican Party attacking voting rights and promoting the Big Lie as if it were real?
Voting rights and all other “rights” are not the main focus at the helm of the transitional Republican Party. The Republican Party is transmuting into a political group with ideologies different from those of the Founding Fathers.
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” Alexander Hamilton, 1775
“…a constitution, intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.” John Marshall was an American politician and lawyer who served as the fourth chief justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835.
The words and actions being promoted and tolerated by the Republican Party are not the words and actions of a political party in agreement with freedom and liberty for all people. The adaptations they seek in “the various crises of human affairs” are not for the benefit of the humanity they are voted in to serve. Why else would they seek to diminish voting booths, and make voting more difficult?
Courage in truth, integrity, and honor are what should be required of all in the Republican Party, from those voted into office, political appointments, down to the common person on the street.
Standing up for truth, integrity, and honor, however, are much more difficult when huge corporations, conglomerates, gun lobby, the military/industrial complex, and a host of other attachments have bought the hearts, minds, and voices of the would-be public servants.
It takes courage to shape the United States of America in poignant times of global warming and climate change. Denying it is happening will not stop its progression.
It takes courage to keep the United States of America as the first paragraph of The Constitution of The United States says, “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Our fledgling government was never intended to be hijacked into an autocracy, oligarchy, nor plutarchy, since none of these forms of government “form a more perfect Union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”
Now is the time for Republican leaders who want to stand the test of time positively in the history books of the United States of America as the saviors of the once-valid two-party system, to use their free will to not join the ranks of the sabotaged brand of modern Republicans, who have been infiltrated by white supremacist and hate-filled agendas.
Now is the time for integrity.
Now is the time for courage.
Now is the time to save the United States of America, unless you really do want to end up with a government of autocracy, oligarchy, and/or plutocracy.
God Bless Everyone Everywhere