Are we the abused spouse?

Just about every campaign is now in full deception mode, telling you what they will do for you if you vote for them. Whispering in your ear; "trust me, this time I promise to keep my oath."

Catch the most important part of the sentence above; “what they will do for you.”

And this is the sick little quid-pro-quo, the tick on the dog type of politics we’ve devolved into. Like a spouse who’s been cheated on, but doesn’t want to end the marriage because they have too much financially and materially invested, so this “political marriage” between We the People and the politicians who lie to us continues. We sacrifice our integrity, our moral fortitude for the illusion that the adulterer (the politician) will continue to keep the finances coming.

And then we wonder why we’ve grown comfortable with the idea of “voting for the lesser of two evils.” And as The Forgotten Men team respond on the air over and over again, when you adopt this mentality, you still end up with evil.

We the People seem to be comforted with the idea of the political ruling class providing the illusion that no drastic changes are needed, and we respond with, “well, there is no perfect candidate so while I know “my guy” doesn’t follow Constitution; he’s the lesser of two evils!”

And the deception continues unabated.

We swoon when “our guy” proclaims that they’ll reform Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid etc; that they’ll run the national government fairer, better than the other guy! And we put their signs up on our lawn or bumper stickers on the car and pledge loyalty to them. Like an abused spouse, We the People even defend their extra-constitutional actions, "lets be practical about this Mark, we can't change this on a dime" people snark at me.

And the deception continues unabated.

When We the People commit the act (voting for “our guy”) and they achieve their goal of getting their rear-ends back into their seats of power, We the People sheepishly are left to defend their “their guys” actions, often embarrassingly. Just as an abused spouse does as they cling to yet another “illusion” that “our guy” promises me he/she won’t do it again.

And the deception continues unabated.

Imagine the abuser in the relationship pledging an oath for the hundredth time, “I swear to uphold my marriage vows so help me God” and then abuses immediately after the oath is pledged. We’ll, is that so different than “our guy” holding his right hand up and pledging an oath before God that he’ll “uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States” and immediately violating his oath by supporting an array of unconstitutional policies.

And the deception continues unabated.

And by the time the abused spouse gathers the moral fortitude to leave the abuser, it’s usually too late…the damage is done. Just as it is now, the damage to our children and grandchildren is set and there’s no way out.

And this is where we find ourselves in the beginning of the 21^st century.

So what’s gonna happen when the illusion We the People buy into election cycle after election cycle, and the political ruling class whispers into our ears every two and four years fails as it is failing right now?

BAD! There is no easy way out of the mess We the People created, none, zip, nada! We have been the enablers in this abusive relationship.

We’re at a pivotal point right now, we’re either going to break towards tyranny, liberty, or a civil war. My suspicion unless this post gets WIDE circulation from our audience and causes real change in how we view politicians, my suspicion is we’ll break towards tyranny. Why, because we’re largely unprepared in a number of critical areas:

1. We wouldn’t do very well if the food supply chain was disrupted from our local grocery stores.
2. Most of us have no emergency action plan. 
3. Very few people understand history so we have a hard time distinguishing deception from facts. Thus as has been repeated ad nauseam “those who refuse to learn history are doomed to repeat it.” 
4. Hardly anyone puts the minor amount of time it takes to understand the Constitution. We don’t know what the role of government is. Hint, it’s not to give you things; its ONLY role is to protect liberty not to use the power of law to take from one taxpayer and redistribute it to another or yourself. That’s called legalized theft, hardly a moral position we should hold no matter how big the need is. 
5. We don’t know our neighbors and are unable to come together when a real crisis hits.

We really have no idea how comfortable we’ve come with government providing a wide range of benefits, subsidies, and grants to us. And when whatever “economic collapse” means, the government will offer the illusion of safety and security in exchange of a few liberties. We the People will be asked to exchange security for liberty.

And as Ben Franklin famously wrote; “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

We’re at a point where either We the People take the blinders off and see things for what they really are or we suffer the consequence of being the abused spouse.

So Mark, what the heck do we do? I’m glad you asked.

1. Examine your motives for supporting a candidate who has pledged on their website and verbally to do something that is clearly unconstitutional. Like all addiction experts tell us, to begin ending the addiction takes a willingness to admit the addiction. Thus, correcting an addiction to the status quo, we must first admit we’re addicted to it. Are you? Do you really believe what “your guy” is telling you? 
2. Learn the easy to learn Constitution so you can detect when your abuser is telling you a whopper! Hint, they do this often! 
3. Study real solutions to the problem, restoring dual federalism.

Listen, we’re all allowed to have an epiphany…I did. The blinders began coming off in 2000 with Walter E. Williams article, “It’s time to part company” and have continued ever since. I refuse to participate or enable the fraud that continues to be perpetrated in Washington DC. And I refuse to be an “abused spouse” any longer while the abuser whispers in my ear; “trust us, vote for me and I promise I’ll follow my oath this time, I really mean it!”