Tossing the Game Board

There is the old scene of a person playing a board game, facing imminent defeat, and simply upending the board with all the game pieces.  It is not a good look for the tosser.  In today’s toxic political environment, the Liberal movement in America is playing the part of the board tosser.  Once again, it is not a good look.

Here is the problem: Liberals want to live in Manhattan but run the business of Bardstown, Ky.  Oh, they may visit Bardstown once or twice every couple of years; and they will absolutely gush about how beautiful and pristine Bardstown is.  But they live in New York…or WDC…or Chicago.  They work in New York…or WDC…or Chicago.  They pay taxes in their home state; not in Bardstown, Ky.  What they are doing is selectively living vicariously through the residents of Bardstown, Ky.  And through their Green New Deal ideas, they rush headlong into a religious crusade to save Bardstown from itself.  They must save it from all those who might tarnish it (even the locals who call it home) so that the rest of the civilized world…those from Manhattan and all their Liberal ilk…might have a place like Bardstown to visit every now and then….if the notion strikes them.  That, my friends, is how a Liberal thinks.

They believe they know better how to run your business than you know yourself.  They are convinced that their concept of right and wrong is infallible.  And their certitude of self-holiness is through the roof when the subject of morality comes to the fore.  Oh, they might on rare occasions listen to differing opinions; but only from those who they know are truly on their side and are simply posing contrary notions for the purposes of entertainment and discussion.  Heaven forbid that someone challenges their beliefs on the basis of honest disagreement or concern or…dare we say it…cold hard facts.  Those people…the ones who actually have the gall to question the sanctity of the Liberal thought…those people are to be dealt with harshly.  They are to be demonized personally, deconstructed financially, diminished socially, disgraced professionally, and utterly demolished in an historical sense.  Quite frankly, I find the self-righteousness within which Liberals hold themselves to be superior beings sickening.  They want to hold your money, dictate your lives, and treat you like subservient children.

Like most of this planet’s countries, our nation is unique.  It was founded upon principles.   Those principles are the playing board for the game of America.  If you want to play on that board (i.e. be a citizen of America), you have to play on the board as it is designed.  That design defines the game.  On occasion, there will be variations and revisions to the rules that govern exactly how the game is played on the board; but they don’t change the board.  If you want a different game, then you choose a different board.  If you do not like the American board, check out the Canadian board…or the Mexican board…or the French board…or the German board.  Choose any board you might like, but understand that even though well-meaning people might disagree on the rules of the game and how to play on the board; the board itself defines the game and is to remain unchanged.  I am not waving the Love It or Leave It flag.  I am simply saying that our country is defined by its founding principles and those sacred beliefs should not be open for discussion.

This nation was officially begun on July 4, 1776 with the Declaration of Independence.  Following a torturous struggle to gain the independence so brazenly declared; our new-found nation took the summer of 1787 to write its Constitution.  That document, that group of noble ideals, is the game board for America.  It is a tribute to the founders of our great nation that even though they gave their very lives and fortunes for that Constitution; they nonetheless provided for an orderly method of amending it.  They understood that our culture and society would evolve with time. 

So it was that in December of 1791, the first ten amendments to the Constitution (commonly known as the Bill of Rights) came into effect.  One might argue that the Bill of Rights changed the game board for America.  I believe it is more appropriate to say that the Bill of Rights sought not so much to change the game board as to clarify the game board.  I submit for your consideration that the Constitution remained intact conceptually and the subsequent amendments have not changed the basic game board design; they have simply revised the manner in which the game is played.  A fundamental belief in individual liberty, a unified network of federalist principles, and freedom through opportunity for all remains the heart and soul of these United States.

The point that I am pursuing is that our nation should honor its Constitution and its bedrock principles supporting the Declaration’s famous words…Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. We must all agree that the game board cannot be tossed, redesigned, or reinvented out of frustration with the manner in which the game is being played; or, even worse, simply because we happen to be losing badly at that particular moment.  The rules can be changed within the parameters of the Constitution (therein lies the wisdom of the document); but those changes cannot alter the underlying rights set forth by the Declaration and the Constitution.  If our nation is to succeed and maintain its position as the leader for freedom and liberty in this world, our political parties must understand that they simply cannot entertain the thought of tossing the board.  They must come to grips with playing the game of governance within the boundaries set forth in our Constitution. 

It is becoming all too possible to consider the prospects of a Democratic or Republican Party gaining control of all three branches of government, throwing all caution to the wind, and seizing upon their fleeting opportunity to toss the board and reinvent it in their own political vision.  This would be the road to ruin.  The road to rejuvenation is in honest and open debate, a redefining of government to those things that are uniquely governmental in nature, and a healthy respect for the political opponent in both victory and defeat.

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Although neither Party may lay claim to a higher, more righteous level of patriotism; it is abundantly clear that the Democrats have migrated closer to tossing the board than have the Republicans.  For all of their misguided policies and ideals, the Republicans continue to hold a visible and tangible allegiance to the Constitution and how it was originally conceived.  They seem to restrict their political mischief to the arenas that lie above the board; such as Congress, the Executive, the Judicial and the balance of power shared among the three.  Whether or not you support their initiatives; it is difficult for any reasonable person to envision a Republican leader who advocates throwing out the Constitution and rewriting it from a uniquely Republican perspective. 

On the other hand, the Democrats of late have come perilously close to giving the appearance that given the chance, they would not hesitate to take an industrial eraser and a few gallons of white-out to our Constitution.  I will not go into a laundry list of Democratic initiatives that will support my supposition (I have already done so in prior posts); but I would urge anyone who cares about the notion to give it some thoughtful consideration. 

The election that will be held this November in America holds the potential (as perhaps they all do) to portend watershed changes in our country and its government.  We will all be inundated with directives to consider how crazy is the man Trump and how senile is the man Biden; how callous is the Donald and how corrupt is Slow Joe.  We will be bombarded with questions about government regulation, tax rates, immigration reforms, foreign policy intrigue, and federal spending priorities.  There will be a lot of shine and polish; but little substance and truth.  There will be a cavalcade of bluster; but a dearth of sincerity and statesmanship.  The real challenge that lies before us this November is much larger than who will be President.  It is a bigger question than which Party will control the House or the Senate.  It is even larger than the traditional test of style over substance.

The basic question we should ask ourselves is this: Which Party will best honor our founding fathers; the blood of our American patriots who fought for the possibility of a new nation and the principles contained in the three fundamental documents that I referenced within this post?  Which Party will uphold the blessed obligation to preserve those ideals of personal liberty and which Party will be most willing to sacrifice them at the altar of a political agenda?  Which Party can best provide the leadership and wisdom to change the way our government functions while preserving the premise upon which our government was established?  The single biggest question that we should ask ourselves this November before casting our vote is this:  Which Party is most likely to toss the board?

President Barack Hussein Obama does not think that our country is exceptional.  The principles espoused in the three aforementioned documents were not his chosen principles.  Oh, he could have gone through them and cherry-picked a few here and there; but the overall thrust did not align with his ideal nation.  He does not love this country.  He does not respect this country.  Above all else, he loves and respects himself.  Once his Party lost control of Congress and he was forced to actually work at being a leader, he retreated into his snarky realm of politics by division.  He resorted to the short-lived thrill of the Executive Order rather than work with Congress on reforms.  As President, he hired irresponsible and incompetent ideologues to run our government like their own private playhouse and decades of bi-partisan cooperation were washed away over eight years.  Government law enforcement/intelligence departments and agencies were politically weaponized and shamelessly wielded for pure partisan gains and pursuit of his personal agendas.  He charmed the mainstream media into making fools out of themselves and helped them sell their professional and ethical souls for feel-good stories about hope, change, and fairy tale slogans.  If Joe Biden is elected President, it is quite likely that the Democrats will not only hold control of the House; but will also seize control of the Senate.  How long do you think it would take the same old Obama team to get the band back together and re-inject their slime and corruption into our government?  And this time around, they will not waste any time whatsoever about getting down to the business of reinventing this country.

Because if the board is tossed; this will no longer be America.  We will have lost that special quality that made our people and our land unique among our global neighbors.  We will have forgotten the sacrifices and struggles that have brought us to this place in history.  We will have crossed a line where our concern for being a global citizen exceeds our pride in being a noble nation.  We will have cavalierly tossed away a storied history for a feel-good rush of virtue signaling.  Crossing that line would be a sacrilege to the generations that came before us and a thoughtless sacrifice of a future we should preserve for our families.  It would not be an apocalypse.  It would not be the end of times.  It would simply be the foolish wasting of something hard-earned and precious that can never be fully recovered.  Can we somehow learn to play the game above the board; while maintaining a deep abiding respect for the board?  Let us all pray to God for the capacity and the leadership to do just that.