DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Are we really ‘We the People’ or have too many people let the Kool-Aid dumb it all down?

When you finish reading the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States below ask yourself, “is this what our government is about these days?”

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, 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.”

The part about justice, domestic tranquility, general welfare, secure the blessing of liberty – I think we are all beginning to see what’s going on these days.

So much division in our country thanks to the politicians and their crews who aren’t willing to pull their grubby fingers from power without a fight. 

No way – it’s worth too much these days to be a career politician.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, go ahead, and then look at the Japanese stock market the fell Sunday night followed by the fear around Monday’s US stock market opening. 

Not only the United States, but the entire world sits in a volatile position when it comes to money – this is how people have been programmed to survive – either the withs or the withouts.

And DO NOT for a minute forget who the puppeteer is (hint hint) – the Federal Reserve. 

Remember, banks own stock in the Federal Reserve and it’s not the government who owns the banks (take a deep dive down that rabbit hole and trace back to many things “conspiracy theorists” have been telling people for years).

When greed and power is the reason a person is doing their job they are no longer doing that job based on anyone’s best interest.

Unless you are sleeping – or drunk on the Kool-Aid – you know this is true.

I wonder how many people would stick around in politics if there were term limits, salary caps, and the removal of lobbyists. 

And that goes for local, state and federal.

Is it a good idea for public officials (or anyone for that matter) to decide their salaries every fiscal year?

We complain about the DC crew and their tight grip on not wanting term, limits but why would they?  

If I were in office state or federal – I would want yearly pay increases – and I would want to stay forever. 

Bringing this closer to home: should mayors, city councils and commissioners have term limits? 

A few cities have it, but I know of one city that recently attempted to do away with term limits, and the voters caught on quick.

I watched the Ellis County Commissioners court from July and wondered – if they had term limits, would they be considering increases like they’ve proposed for fiscal year 2025? 

It’s been said the increases keep up with other counties. 

What happened to regular citizens doing their time in office; local, state and federal and going back home not aspiring for career politician status. 

That is not what our forefathers intended. 

A friend of mine recently asked, why are we paying people to make laws we don’t need?

Does anyone have any idea how many federal or state laws exist? Laws not even being adhered to while politicians keep passing new laws often without the constituent’s blessing. 

In 2023, the Texas Legislature alone passed 774 laws now in effect. 

I also found Congress enacts up to 600 statutory laws during each of its 115 biennial terms, and more than 30,000 statutes have been enacted since 1789.

Who keeps up with these laws? 

Likely attorney’s – remember when Colorado was trying to remove Trump from the ballot due to a law from the Civil War?

Taxpayers pay these people to sit up there and lord over constituents without a care – it’s gotten out of control as all big governments do.

And then, with hardly a whisper, big government eventually takes over every aspect of your life before you realize it (sounding familiar)?

For those who don’t believe in the second amendment of the Constitution – stop reading now. 

I don’t want your blood pressure to skyrocket – however that little amendment is the reason the United States is still a free republic and hasn’t completely lost every right.

“A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

President Ronald Reagan had a good line – hard to argue with unless you prefer a dictator.

“Our Constitution was not written to protect the government from its people. It was written to protect the people from their government.”

He saw the future.

These days Americans are being pushed out of their freedom of speech and uncensored opinions under the guise of “social justice.” 

Why is one group allowed to take away another group’s rights because they are offended. 

I’m offended all the time these days, and I don’t even have to go to a cry room to work it out. 

Nope, instead I get over it, because if I want my opinion they have a right to their opinion too.

It’s really the manner of the aggression of people these days fearfully pushing their agenda versus the agenda itself. 

All this name calling like an elementary playground; racist, liberal, conservative, sexist – you name it and there is a reason to be called it. 

And you wonder what’s wrong with America?

Too much blaming the red or blue depending on the narrative you are believing and not enough looking at the real enemy who is laughing at both parties right now.

Here’s a good one for you straight out of Google (i.e. Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street coffers): “In late July and early August 2024, far-right protesters rioted in various parts of the United Kingdom, following the mass stabbing of children in Southport on 29 July. 

“The initial riot in Southport and subsequent riots elsewhere have been linked to disinformation on social media.”

It’s not the far-right as many would like to believe. 

In fact, it’s both the Brits and the Irish who have had a long-standing problem with each other, now standing together because Great Britain has a large group of illegals just like the US, and they are tired of their politician’s narrative and the murders and looting and bad behavior.

One man in the UK said, “These riots in the UK will stop if the borders are closed Keir Starmer (Prime Minister of Great Britain) – by the way, you never ask us.”

It goes much deeper, just like in the US.

There are now north of 22 million illegals in the US from this latest migration. 

To put that in perspective, there are 234 countries listed in the world, and only 60 have more than 22 million. 

We have allowed a completely new country to enter the US and get freebies when US residents can’t even get proper medical, afford groceries, gas and they must pay taxes on already taxed money. Read this (https://cis.org/Bensman/While-Illegal-Aliens-Kill-and-Rape-Bogus-Crime-Comparisons-Still-Blunt-Solutions) if you want to understand why Americans are blindly sitting by – likely much of it due to that tasty Kool-Aid they can’t stop drinking.

If you want to resist in silence there is power in silence. Resist by saying no to big government’s insanity.

Go to the polls and say no to illegals voting. The constituents didn’t approve it, and it defies the Constitution.

Work at the polls to assure neither party’s ballots go uncounted and that trucks don’t pull up in the dark of night to bring new ballots red or blue.

Start using cash and stop being lazy and pulling out your plastic.

Stop thinking “smart” toys are smart. Indeed, they are smart enough to track your every move, stop saying “I’m being tracked anyway,” those words will haunt you.

Stop “Amazoning it” and get some exercise. 

Go to the store – preferably the mom and pop stores who need the business. 

And get healthy again by saying no to drive-thru convenience that has killed America’s soul. 

Make your own list, you’ll be amazed at how your life changes.

Rita Cook is a freelance writer for The Ellis County Press. She can be reached at rcook13@earthlink.net.