*** “The governments of the past could be fairly characterized as devices for maintaining in perpetuity the place and position of certain privileges classes, without any ultimate protection for the rights of the people. The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.” [ Republican President Calvin Coolidge, 1924 ]
1] “”We the People,” summons forth the still radically democratic idea that the government of the United States exists to serve the people, not the people serve the government. That is fundamental to the Framers’ original intent, as is the related idea that the government of the United states cannot tell us what to think or believe about politics, religion, science, literature, or anything else.” [Pulitzer Prize winning constitutional law scholar Leonard W. Levy: “Original Intent and The Framer’s Constitution” ]
SO – “government exists to serve the people” – as in education, regulating business, protecting the environment, public health, national parks, highways, infrastructure, scientific research, legal & judicial systems, law enforcement & public safety, protecting civil rights, protecting worker’s rights, social safety net, providing accurate information, programs for children……………..
SO – YOU tell me: what has the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY done to carry out these duties and obligations? They CLAIM they’re promoting “government efficiency” – SO what, if anything they’ve done IN REALITY makes “our” government a better servant of the American people ???
SO – YOU tell me, how does mass firings and defundings of many of the above government services make YOUR life better? How does mass firings of national parks workers make YOUR next trip to one of “our” national parks better and safer/
SO- YOU tell me, how does mass firings and cuts in medical research, halting global health programs, decimating the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention make the health of YOU and YOUR children better?
SO – do YOU care if Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY privatizes access to accurate weather reports – meaning YOU will pay for what used to be free government weather reports?
SO – do YOU care if Musk-Trump privatize Social Security, totally privatize Medicare? SO, maybe YOUR retirement savings could be lost [like happened in the 2008 Crash]. SO, there’ll be NO restraints on prescription drug costs, hospital visits, doctor’s services????????????
SO – do YOU want to be 100% at the mercy of BIG BUSINESS??? That the U.S. government will do NOTHING to restrain their greed??? If Trump-Musk gut federal government powers, YOU WILL BE ROBBED.
SO – are YOU concerned about YOUR environment – as in pollution-free air; as in the cost of YOUR property insurance doubling, tripling, N.A.; as in clean water; as in toxic dumps??? If Musk-Trump reward their corporate donors/silent partners by gutting the EPA and other government agencies – YOUR future life, that of YOUR children will NOT be pleasant.
2] “…injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere..” [ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner: “for his non-violent struggle for civil rights” }
SO – YOU tell me – should “our” government be protecting YOUR civil rights? YOUR civil rights that began with thew 1791 “Bill of Rights”? YOUR civil right to “be left alone”???
SO – YOU tell me – should “our” government be protecting YOUR rights as an employee? Or, should YOU be totally at the mercy of YOUR employer?????
SO – YOU’RE a white male – what do YOU care if women or people of color are mistreated??? YOU’RE a “Christian” – what do YOU care if other religions, or people not in any church, get persecuted???
3] “There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.” { supreme Court Justice Hugo Black ]
SO – what do YOU care if some rich guy gets off scott-free? If 1,500 rioters trying to help a coup against YOUR government ALL get pardons? A corporation avoids punishment? If the federal courts are stacked with “true believers” who RE-WRITE the Constitution and other laws for favored people and groups?
4]. “Of all the costs imposed on our society by the top 1%, perhaps the greatest is this: the erosion of our sense of identity in which fair play, equality of opportunity, and a sense of community are so important….our democracy is being put at peril.” [ Nobel Prize winner Joe Stiglitz ]
SO – YOU tell me – how is the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY doing in increasing YOUR sense of fair play, equal opportunity, and a sense of “we’re all in this together”??? Do YOU think there is ANY chance that YOU and YOUR children will be one of the “winners” from ANYTHING the Musk-trump KAKISTOCRACY is doing?
SO – YOU tell me – do YOU really believe Musk-Trump are doing all this chain-sawing of “our” government to benefit YOU? Are they doing what the Constitution’s Preamble REQUIRES: ‘..promote the general Welfare..”? Do YOU really trust what they’re doing? Are YOU aware DOGE is covering up their mistakes, refusing to provide details of their “big savings”?
***. “There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.” [Ludwig von Mises ]
With Justice For All 