Endgame Has Arrived, I Guess

These thoughts are not new.

They have been swirling around in my process for months.

Years, really.

But months recently.

These thoughts are not particularly perceptive, nor are they particularly acute.

They certainly aren't unique.

But I'm going to let them out of my reverie, and into cyberspace anyway.

For a set of obvious reasons not worth asserting, the United States of America has no national legislature.

For a set of obvious reasons not worth asserting, the United States of America has no national judiciary.

All the United States of America has is a recently asserted unitary executive.

As a result of that dysfunctional confluence, the United States of America has recently shelved its constitution.

It has taken time.

The legislature got spooked by the voters and the judiciary got stacked by the confirmation power vested on the, now spooked, legislature; that legislature kept violating the rules and putting justices perceived to be like the legislature in the judiciary and there is now a quorum.

A quorum of silence.

That's a fine kettle of fish. 

The powers vested in the legislature by the now defunct constitution have been shelved out of fear of the voters.

Powers like impeaching and trying the executive.

The powers vested in the judiciary by the now defunct constitution have been deemed to be non- applicable - by the legislature - in an era when the legislature doesn't do anything to be checked or balanced, due to fear of the voters; so, there is no real need for the any check or balance from the judiciary; stasis prevails.

Powers like finding to be criminal the actions of the executive.

But any way, the long-compromised judiciary has already said that the executive can't be guilty of crimes.

Neat package.

AND THE UNITARY EXECUTIVE REIGNS SUPREME.

And hatred, fear and incompetence run rampant on the land.

And there is no way out of this, even if one wanted a way out of this.

But no one does, want a way out of this, because, really, all the under the table stuff, and being an influencer stuff, is so good a deal that the American legislature is the best franchise in world history.

So, there is no way to remove the executive.

After all he's only a petty money-grubbing despot; he doesn't threaten our way of life; we still grill steaks don't we?

And, anyway, the executive has captured the imagination and loyalty of the voters, and the executive is not spooked.

So, what's with the people?

The voters?

George Washington covered that in 1788.

He thought he was mainly addressing the worries of the people about the newly ratified Constitution: would it, could it stave off some future onslaught for power by some future demagogue?

He couldn't have known that he was promulgating prophecy.

Here is what he said, and the applicability of this statement to here and now is his apparent shrug to the obvious soft underbelly of the Constitution: WE THE PEOPLE.

"There cannot, in my judgement, be the least danger that the President will by any practicable intrigue ever be able to continue himself one moment in office, much less perpetuate himself in it; but [in modern parlance substitute 'except' for 'but'] in the last stage of corrupted morals and political depravity; and even then there is as much danger that any other species of domination would prevail. Though, when a people have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes".