Daily Verse | Nehemiah 9:35
“Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying your great goodness to them in the spacious and fertile land you gave them, they did not serve you or turn from their evil ways.”
It’s Wednesday my Daily Broadside friends. The last accurate forecast was when God told Noah it was going to rain for forty days and forty nights.
It’s not what I know that Resident Biden and his illegal junta are doing to America that bothers me (although it does). It’s what I don’t know that they’re doing to America—out of sight, behind the scenes and on the weekends in the alphabet agencies and the war rooms and in their offices in the White House—that bothers me. And if what we do know is any indication about their intentions, what they aren’t showing us is probably 100 times worse.
Take, for instance, what many consider to be the most dangerous portion of Biden’s so-called “State of the Union” address on April 28. Watch:
Our Constitution opens with the words, as trite as it sounds, “We the People.” It’s time to remember that We the People are the government. You and I. Not some force in a distant capital. Not some powerful force we have no control over. It’s us! It’s “We the people.”
This is, without hyperbole, one of the most shocking statements any leader of our country has ever said. It’s possible that, in his foggy brain, he meant, “those of us in government are made up of the people” and, in that way, the government is “the people.” But he didn’t say that and the words he did use are unqualified: “We the People are the government.”
It is true that “We the People” are supposed to be the ultimate authority. We live in a nation that has a government “of the people, by the people and for the people,” as Abraham Lincoln said. But when Biden went on to say, “You and I” and “It’s us!” he inexcusably fused the two — the “government” and We the People — as one.
No.
Joe Biden and those who write his speeches clearly don’t understand the U.S. Constitution or the intentions of our Founding Fathers. Or, if they do, they’re intentionally conflating the boundaries of government and “the people” as the tip of the wedge to start prying the original meaning out of the preamble to the Constitution. (I addressed this tactic in an earlier post, here.)
Our constitutional republic (not democracy) is a model of self-government, meaning the people are sovereign and the government is the servant of the people. The Declaration of Independence says,
“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it…”
The only task of government is to secure our rights with the consent of the governed. There are two entities, not one. The governed or We the People, and the government, who operates only with our consent and with only one purpose.
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.”
— U.S. President John Adams (1797–1801)
Our government under Dementia Joe is not one of “the common good.” The government should never be in a position of telling us what we should do or imposing unnecessary restrictions on our freedom to pursue happiness. It has become what Adams said it shouldn’t be: for the profit, honor and private interest of a class of men.
If you don’t believe that, just look at how rich politicians become. See how Hunter Biden and the Big Guy have made millions off of their power and political cronyism. Note that we do not have domestic tranquility under this administration. We have asymmetrical justice and this administration is desperately trying to restrict our inalienable rights as Resident Biden divides the nation by race, sex and political beliefs.
Most of all, listen to how Joe Biden talks to you and me.
Is this not the statement of a dictator? He doesn’t have the “just power” to rule by fiat in our Constitutional republic — ever. That’s not how this works. But Resident Biden clearly isn’t bothered by the constraints that the U.S. Constitution puts on the government.
This is a prime example of the things we can see of the current administration.
It makes me wonder what we can’t see.