Deserved props to Angus King (I-ME)

[misanthrope]

If you read Heather Cox Richardson's Letter from an American dated Feb. 7, 2025 then you saw them. It was refreshing to see someone spell out the dangers on the Senate floor.

“And…right now—literally at this moment—that Constitution is under the most direct and consequential assault in our nation's history,” King said. “An assault not on a particular provision but on the essential structure of the document itself.”

Why do we have a Constitution, King asked. He read the Preamble and said: “There it is. There's the list—ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, ensure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” But, he pointed out, there is a paradox: the essence of a government is to give it power, but that power can be abused to hurt the very citizens who granted it. “Who will guard the guardians?” King asked.

The Framers were “deep students of history and…human nature. And they had just won a lengthy and brutal war against the abuses inherent in concentrated governmental power,” King said. “The universal principle of human nature they understood was this: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

There's far more that's just as good at
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-7-2024-144

[Mz Pip]

1. Insure domestic tranquility

Not much of that coming from the Mango Mussolini. He seems hell bent on fomenting domestic unrest.

[misanthrope]

2. Completely

What ensures domestic tranquility? When people have stable income, food, housing, dependable health care, and a sense of safety. The last of those is hardest to accomplish because bigotry based on religion, ethnicity or class can create unfounded misgivings. More than that, they are most frequently used by the power-hungry to sow division.

[calimary]

4. THIS!!!

Totally, loudly, and muscularly!

[Evolve Dammit]

3. Angus is a good senator and has it right