What Form of Government is This?

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“The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” So says Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, that tattered document that exists today as a mere anachronism - a symbol of what once was. It is openly mocked by our ruling elite who believe, as Kamala Harris believes, that our benighted past is all that stands in the way of their utopian future.

This is why, for example, Doctooooor Jill Biden can hold a cabinet meeting in the White House and the ruling elite can assume that we mere plebes won’t raise any difficult questions. Questions like, why is the unelected second-spouse of the lamest of lame duck Presidents holding a cabinet meeting? Isn’t that the job of The President? Never mind, you plebe, can’t you see that the clapping seals (26 seconds in) are the regime mandarins and ruling elite who run this country without your consent?

A cynic might understand this as: our historical form of government is an obstacle to their limitless power.

Kamala Harris summarizes this smug entitlement with her vapid “what can be, unburdened by what has been” - a mantra that presumes she and her handlers are smart enough to discard all the lessons of history because they read a few chapters of John Rawls somewhere between sorority rush and college graduation.

Curiously, this slogan is both precise enough to require that we memory-hole our history and broad enough to mean whatever our ruling elite need it to mean . . . today, tomorrow, or next week.

But, it’s never broad enough to mean what I, personally, want it to mean.

Why, for example, can’t we unburden ourselves of critical race theory, transgender normalization, racial quotas, legal positivism, progressive technocracy, the income tax, the Federal Reserve, the administrative bureaucracy, Nancy Pelosi, green energy, New Jersey, renamed professional sports teams, meddlesome Karens, virtue signaling, human resource departments, fiat currencies, and Bill Kristol. There is little doubt, after all, that those things are both burdensome and “have been’s” or, in Kristol’s case, a “has been.” Those are the criteria, right guys? Right? Guys?

At any rate, I observe that the President of the United States - as in The President - is supposed to have all power vested by the Constitution. Not some or a good amount or even most. All.

Of course, our ruling elite do not take this sort of thing seriously. By “this sort of thing,” I mean the idea that words codified into laws could actually impose upon them some sort of obligation. If they did, at least they’d go through the motions of removing demented Joe Biden from office. There’s a procedure for doing exactly that, you know. It’s literally the reason why we have the Twenty Fifth Amendment. And Joe Biden is (and has been for many years) incompetent. As Victor Davis Hanson would say, he’s non-compos mentis.

But, instead of following the actual procedure designed for this purpose, the ruling elite take for granted that you will not notice that Joe Biden is clearly not in charge, that he hasn’t been for a long time, that no single person is in charge, that it appears a committee of insiders wields all Presidential powers, that these insiders don’t bother even to consult with the actual “elected” president, that all or most of those insiders are unelected bureaucrats, that the composition of this committee appears to change without notice, and that this is certain to continue at least through inauguration day.

In other words, the ruling elite intend that a cadre of anonymous and unelected powerbrokers wield the presidency without your knowledge or consent. Indefinitely.

And they think that we are so stupid or docile (or both) that, instead of acknowledging any of this, they seek to placate us with endless replays of Joe Biden eating his favorite ice cream, while Jill Biden holds cabinet meetings, and Kamala Harris assaults us with word salad while professing how “joyful” and “optimistic” her campaign is, whatever that means.

Meanwhile, this farce of a government controlled by a farce of a ruling elite maintain its grip on power precisely because … perhaps we are that stupid or docile.

I’ll close by noting that Harris promises “what can be, unburdened by what has been.” I submit the opposite is true. Now that we’ve been “unburdened” of our form of government, we’re going to find out “what we can’t be” - namely, a free and prosperous people.

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