By Howard Houchen

MOONBAT DUFUS AL GOREA few years ago my youngest son, who is now eight years of age, would occasionally display (okay, more than occasionally) quite a bit of “frustration” when a toy he was playing with wouldn’t work. You see, most of the toys he played with usually had batteries and when the batteries ran down the toy would cease to function. He would push the toy aside and proclaim; “this thing’s busted”.

My oldest son would just casually reply; “No, it just needs new batteries”. Repeatedly we would hear “this thing is busted” and repeatedly we would hear “it just needs batteries”. Sometimes when you transfer the mundane into the absurd you get humor.

One afternoon, not too long ago, my oldest son and I were rotating the tires in the garage. I had him use the “old school” 4-way lug wrench instead of the impact gun. He wasn’t used to this manual lug-nut extraction and his frustration grew to the point where he looked at the 4-way and said: “This thing’s busted; I think it needs new batteries”. In other words, the tool wasn’t performing in the fashion he thought it should. Also, it required some WORK.

This is the most interesting way I know of to bring you to the point of the obvious. The current make up of American governance is busted and it needs new batteries. What indicators do we look at to lead us to this supposition? The best place to begin is by looking at the rule book by which the citizens of the United States of America are to govern themselves. Yep, you got it…the U.S. Constitution! Notice I said “are to govern” and not “were to govern”. You see, nothing, not even government, has altered the fundamentals of the U.S. Constitution.

The problem is that it has been ignored, attacked, abused, accused of being too lax and accused of being too strict…but, it still remains. Volumes upon volumes of information exist on this particular topic and I will not bore you here with my summation of these points. Suffice it to say…only an elementary understanding of the framework by which Americans are to govern themselves is required to plainly see we are not doing what we are supposed to do.

As citizens, it is our right and our duty to dictate to government our wishes on how we are to be governed by those we choose to represent us. On the surface it seems hard to argue that something in government has become “busted”…after all, don’t we have elections every few years in order for “we the people” to rid ourselves of those who do not follow our wishes? This theoretical framework is supposed to protect us from government acquiring the power it has amassed at present.

Just be objective and ask yourself: Did you or your ancestors tell government to tax you at every level of your existence and beyond? Did you or your American citizen ancestors tell government to take your or your neighbors property at their discretion? Did any citizen or group of citizens tell government to continually attack their right to free speech or their right to keep and bear arms?

Did any American citizen tell the Federal government to ignore the 10^th Amendment and demand of the states of the Republic the abandonment of their voice?

Did a majority of American citizens demand of our federal government a centrally planned system of economy? Did the true backbone of America, the hard-working middle-class, ask to have our money taken from us only to be part of a redistribution of wealth program?

Did we dictate to the federal government that they completely screw-up Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid (and about every other government program) by expanding them to such a degree that they could no longer sustain themselves? Does anyone honestly believe that a majority of U.S. citizens desire the passage of Cap and Trade otherwise known as Cap and Tax?

The correct answer to all of these is NO!

So, how did all this come to pass if “we, the people” did not ask for them? Simple…we just didn’t actively oppose them. We, the people, have no one to blame other than ourselves (of course, many individuals in government have taken advantage of this apathetic posture of the citizenry). Just like my oldest son, quite humorously, blaming the lug-wrench…we blame government.

The reality of it all is that it is the operator that dictates to the tool. As my son learns the “intricacies” of the 4-way, he will become much more proficient at getting it to perform in the fashion it was intended. As we, the American citizenry, become more knowledgeable and involved in our own governance, we will begin to replace the “batteries” that have rendered it “busted”. Both situations require the dreaded four-letter word…w-o-r-k.

This is not a task we can put aside and forget nor can we put it off. The very essence of American exceptionalism depends on “we, the people”. The United States of America is still the greatest nation God ever blessed. My father-in-law once told me; “a good man is always ready for a good fight”. I can think of very few things more worthy than the Restoration of Our America. Keep up the Good Fight for the RIGHT change.God Bless Our Great Nation.