Saying “no one cares” might be a little inaccurate. There are people who care about the US Constitution, particularly the way it’s been ignored or bastardized by those who took an oath to uphold and defend it.
But maybe they should stop caring… because most of those who took the oath don’t care.
I was on Facebook a few weeks ago, and someone who I assume was a conservative was lamenting one of President Biden’s executive orders. His comment was something to the effect of “This is unconstitutional! Don’t they know that they work for us?”
Again, I get this sentiment given the affection many have for the Constitution and the original purpose of it. But given all the atrocities the United States government has perpetrated since that document’s inception, it’s about high time we let go of that sentiment. As Lysander Spooner said:
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or it has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”
What he’s saying is something I’ve come to realize: you can cry all you want about how Politician X or Bureaucrat Y is violating your Constitutional rights; they simply don’t care. They’ll go on violating your rights. Any proclamation by most of this nation’s leaders – federal and local – is merely theater to make you believe they’re something they’re not.
It’s the same reason I tell people to stop saying in a sarcastic tone when they see someone on the left doing or saying anything that would seem to be hypocritical to liberal values, “the ‘tolerant’ Left.” Stop it.
The trend among woke progressives over the past several years has been to bash white people, especially men. No, it’s not tolerant. It violates MLK’s principle that people should judge others by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Yes. Got it. They don’t care.
This is a battle of control. Right vs. Left. The Left has shown they’re ready to do what it takes to win. They control the media, Hollywood, academia, and much of the federal government. Pointing out that they’re hypocrites means nothing to them. They’re happy to tighten their grip on American culture while you cry about it.
Not that those who believe in classically liberal values can’t take it back, but the trend isn’t heading in that direction. No matter how many times the government violates our Constitutional rights, as they did and are still doing during the COVID pandemic, no amount of outrage from the right side of the aisle seems to deter them.
Now, the solution to this problem, I’m told, is what it’s been since I’ve been breathing in oxygen and expelling CO2: get the right people in office. If you’re still holding on to that possibility, I don’t know what to tell you. You must enjoy being disappointed and yelling about it.
There is no solution to this apart from convincing people that it’s time to separate and form communities that release us from any sense of obligation to others simply because they, like us, occupy the territory between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
There is no electing the “right” people. There’s no finding common ground. If that time ever existed, it’s long since gone.
It’s time to start new communities with others who can actually stand the sight of you. If you want another version of America with your own Constitution, great. That will probably devolve into the mess the current America finds itself. But at least there will be fewer people to be harmed by any government overreach.
Let’s decentralize, become something more resembling the city-states of old. We do not share one culture in the United States other than some romantic vision of what could have been. The sooner we admit that, the better. We can stop torturing ourselves over what hypocrites other people are or how politicians, “who work for us,” should follow the Constitution.
It’s a fool’s errand, and the more people we can convince to stop acting foolish, the sooner we can get to the kinds of societies in which we deserve to live.
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