Things That Will Not Happen Before 2020

[TygrBright]

18. Thank you. You keep trying. And I appreciate it.

No matter how much my reptile cortex wants to DO SOMETHING!!! DRASTIC!!! NOW!!!

The rest of my brain deeply appreciates that I live in a Constitutional Republic with a bedrock structure for maintaining the basic functions of Constitutional government and a rule of law. And no matter how many corrupt sleazy cheating skidmarks try to circumvent, buy, and corrupt their way around it, that Constitution remains.

No, it doesn't protect us from assholes.

It was never meant to, really. Assholes have always been a fact of life and they tend to gravitate toward power. As long as checks and balances remain on that power, the damage they can do is real, but limited, temporary, and reparable (albeit at great cost, sometimes.)

The one fundamental check that our Constitution provides that WE, the CITIZENS, can implement directly, is our VOTE.

Everything else is indirect, subject to the structure laid out in the Constitution. No, we can't "fix" anything directly, by any means except VOTING.

So yes, while the sleazy corrupt oligarchic grifters are working hard to take our VOTE away from as many of us as they can, they will only succeed to the extent that we continue to enable them, by NOT VOTING.

Thank you for the ongoing reminders of this.

I appreciate them more than you know.

It does sometimes feel like shouting down a well, I know.

But know that you're heard, listened to, and appreciated.

gratefully,
Bright