Great Men, Bold Deeds

The founders of our country were far from perfect, but their oeuvre grande was the Constitution, the most important document since the Magna Carta. This document is neither long nor abstruse. It is instead, short, succinct and quite legible. It provides the foundation for our form of government, legal system and our individual rights. Enshrined in the Constitution are certain unalienable rights to protect citizens from the predations of malign leaders and guarantee equal treatment for all under the law. Consequently, whatever personal flaws were inherent in the founders, including slavery, the 

Constitution should be viewed through the lens of its manifold advantages bestowed upon all of those who have benefited from it for over 230 years.    

Given the importance of the Constitution, it is obvious that care should be taken to insure its viability and to defend it from attacks. In this regard, most office holders take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. While this is true, there are increasing numbers of those who take the oath and summarily ignore it once in office. This trend poses an enormous threat to our democracy and the freedoms we enjoy. I define those who ignore the constitution as “idiots.” This is a fitting label since virtually all of these individuals are aware of the deleterious affects of their actions, but do not care since they are blinded by the collective hubris of their destructive ideology.     

While we assume our leaders are generally intelligent, though some manifestly are not, often times their behavior is demonstrably irrational, lacking in factual support and/or even just plain stupid. More disturbingly, their unbridled propensity to lie and cheat to advance a particular narrative is destroying the public’s trust in our leaders and institutions.    

Contributing to the foregoing is an increasing dichotomy between those in leadership positions who support our founding principles and constitution versus those who have no fealty whatsoever to either. This is a slow moving disaster since our founding principles and constitution form the basic foundations of our culture and government, the underpinnings of which are found in the tenants of Western Civilization.    

Those on the left espouse openly or covertly to abandon our form of government in favor of a new order, or more specifically, a “new world order.” It would be based on a globalist government, wherein sovereign nations would no longer be independent, but instead would be vassal states owing allegiance to the “World Government.” Under this scheme, individual rights guaranteed in our constitution would be eliminated and replaced by obligations to the state. In this regard, every aspect of your education, work, income and social interactions would be controlled by the government. Yes, this is communism, simply under new management!  

Communist China is the current model for this system, which is effusively lauded by the elites whose fondest hope is to control the lives of all freedom loving people the world over. The underlying assumption for the elites is that the vast majority of people, i.e. populo grosso, are not intelligent enough to decide for themselves what is good or bad. Thus, it is up to the elites, i.e. intelligentsia or populo minuto, to light the way to a more just world and a happy life. The colossal hubris associated with this theory is difficult to fathom given the catastrophic failures of current and past experiences with analogous systems.   

Thus, we are confronted with a clash of competing orthodoxies, one that will set us on a course to total destruction of our culture, government and freedoms versus one that seeks to maintain and improve the existing structure. It is with this Herculean struggle as a backdrop that the following essays will be anchored.   

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George Hassel, January 10, 2023

Author of “AMERICAN REQUIEM” How the Left is Destroying America