the above post is one possibility of the Kantian
questions… “what should I believe in”? Should we hold to the
unifying principle of America… (whatever that might be)
What unifying principle tie’s me or binds me to my fellow American
citizens? The religious are bound to or tied together by the unifying
principle of god… the Christian by the unifying principles of
Christianity and the Hindu’s are bound together by the unifying
principles of the Hindu religion…as is the Muslim and the Jews
and Jains and the………
think of the unifying principle of countries, of patriotism in
terms of the unifying principle that govern the religious…
we can think of several ties or binding principles that
tie or bind people together…political, social, economic,
historical, philosophical, personal, cultural……
the principle or themes that can bind or tie people together
are numerous, maybe too numerous to list…
let us take American’s… we are tied together by the bounds of
economic and historical and social and culturally…
we share these principles that have bound American’s together for centuries…
for example the institutions of America… the Presidency, the senate,
the house, the court system including the Supreme court…
we are influenced and impacted by these institutions every day of our lives…
from the roads I drive on to the quality of air I breath to the water running
into my house to the electricity that allows me to type this into my computer…
of late, beginning with one of the worst president in American history,
Ronald Raygun, they have attacked and tried to destroy our belief
in our institutions…that which is part of our political and historical
heritage of being American’s… part of what we believe in that
is one of the fundamental beliefs that hold as a unifying principle…
in other words, this attack upon government as “part of the problem”
is an attack upon one of the historical unifying principles that
tie or bind Americans together…
recall: “we the people, in order to form a more perfect union”
“We the people” “We the people”
who is the people, if not us…
“government of the people, for the people, by the people”
an attack upon the government is an attack upon the people…
for the government is us… as clearly stated by the Declaration
and the Constitution…
if we the people is not the government, then we are not a government of
the people, then we are not America anymore… for that is one of the
basis of our binds that tie all American’s together…
“government of the people, for the people, by the people”
from the very beginning of our American republic, from the very first
day, the idea was that “we the people” is the foundation, the bedrock,
the unifying principle that united, that tied and bound us Americans
together…
if we are no longer a government of “we the people” then we have no
basis for a unifying principle that ties us together…
for as IQ45 is demonstrating every single day, respect for the rule of law,
has gone by the wayside…so if that is gone and we no longer think
of government as government of the people, then what is the unifying principle that
ties us together?
if IQ45 was sent to Washington to “drain the swamp” then let us drain the
swamp, but don’t dismantle the very foundations of what makes American’s
American’s… that is by dismantling the very ties that makes us American’s
which is the beliefs have held sway over what it means to be American…
the idea of government is…
“we the people”…………
the idea that government is
“of the people, for the people, by the people”
and the idea, the very idea that conservatives are driving into politics,
is the idea of the “imperial presidency”…
which is odd considering that they consider government as being the enemy…
recall Mr. Raygun….
“Government is not the solution to our problem,
Government is the problem”
and within that quote lies the very attack upon the unifying ideals that
have defined Americans since our beginning…
“we the people in order to form a more perfect union”
and:
“Government is of the people, for the people and by the people”
so, if government is the problem, then the problem is the “people”
and this is this very basis upon which the right wing has attack government…
as an attack upon the very ideals, the very principles of our founding fathers,
which is government is of the people… and that is the danger to the GOP…
the very attack upon government shows us the very disdain and hatred
of the people by the GOP and the right wing…the very guiding principles
that have defined America since the start begins with “We the people”…
If you agree with the statement that “government is the problem”
then you agree that the problem is the “people”… you attack the
very foundations of the basis of the unifying principles that tie
and bind Americans together…
“we the people in order to form a more perfect union”
if you think that our government that is form upon the basis
of “government of the people, for the people, by the people”
then upon what basis do you believe that we should now form
our country upon?
You have rejected the core principles of our founding fathers by
rejecting the ideal of “government of the people”…so fine,
what is your proposal?
that we should adapt a monarchy?
no, no, no… the answer you propose is quite clear…
you want an imperial president… you have said that much when
you declare “the president is above the law”
only in a dictatorship or a monarchy is the president above the law…
and so your drive to make IQ45 above the law is a clear sign
that you have rejected, rejected the very foundation that has
driven America since the beginning… “we the people”…
“government of the people, for the people, by the people”
so the conservative agenda is to destroy the very foundation of
what the founding fathers created… government of the people…
if we destroy the tie, that bind that hold Americans together,
then what is left for American’s to hold unto as foundational
beliefs in what it means to be an American?
if we do not hold to the unifying principle that
“government is of the people, by the people, for people”
then what is left to believe in as American’s?
Kropotkin