Just In The Nick Of Time

I have just finished reading a very important book.  And just in time, specifically, in this reference to such matters, with my needing to return it to my city’s Main Public Library tomorrow.  

Important.  But painful.  About how things in this country have gone horribly awry.  And the conclusion is very clear: 

the Constitution, as a limitation on the power of the federal government, has died; due mainly to the fact that the people who were the ones to see the ship of state kept steady on its course over the years of exploration were the very ones to benefit by the Constitution being turned into a wet noodle, if you will pardon my mixing of metaphors to make my point as graphic, and attention-catching, as I can.  

As Thomas E. Woods, Jr. and Kevin R.C. Gutzman conclude in their excellent book on this extremely important matter, entitled ‘Who Killed The Constitution?’:

“It is perhaps jarring to consider the possibility that constitutions are destined to fail.  After all, we [in this country] are indoctrinated from early childhood with the idea that the Constitution is the font of our liberties…And it is to the U.S. Constitution that every government official still swears his fidelity.  But when we look beyond the grand rhetoric to the actual record, we must confront a troubling conclusion: once an institution obtains supreme force, it is probably utopian to expect its powers to remain limited over time — especially when the one thing doing the limiting is a document that is interpreted and enforced by the very institution it is supposed to restrain. 

“So what, then, is left of the Constitution?  To be sure, our federal government has perverted beyond recognition the system that the Founding Fathers created.  The chief restraint on government officials is merely their sense of what they can get away with [my emphasis].  Nonetheless, the Constitution can still serve a purpose, as it remains a useful bludgeon to employ against government power grabs.  By calling attention to what the Constitution really says, we can alert the people to just how consistently and dramatically their fundamental law has been betrayed.  What they do with that knowledge is up to the American people themselves to decide.”

In sum: The rot started setting in close to the very beginning, was given an impetus in the early part of the 20th century under Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and then FDR,* accelerated under LBJ, Nixon and Clinton, reached an unmatched stride under George the Second (and his imperial-executive 'Signing Statements'), who set the stage for the as-long-as-we're-at-it takeover of the Usurper - the crowing achievement of the Constitution-wreckers: to seat an ineligible but carefully plotted person in the Oval Office.  Sweet.          

Well, it served its purpose for as long as, apparently, it could reasonably have bee expected to; with a race a little lower than the angels - to say, those souls resident in the angelic kingdoms, or just passing through the lower reaches thereof, on their way back to Earth after a visit with their Life Review coaches.  And so, I will take over now; as we are lifted up a notch, or two, towards those realms.

And apparently, just in the nick of time.

To save ourselves from ourselves.

For not learning the lessons of our history.

Well enough.

To avoid the return of the boomerang.

In spades this time.

With the need, now desperate, to remember Who We Are:

We are God in expression.

We are divinity made manifest.

So, start living up to your true identity.

And all will be well.

And only then.

The choice is clear.

And getting more clear every day.

That only Truth will get us out of this mess.

The mess that we have created.

For forgetting that fundamental fact about ourselves.

Our Selves.

That we are facets, fractals, aspects, points of view, of

The One.

Coming.

To a theater of operation very near

You.

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* 'Progressives,' they were, and it is, called.  When you are progressing down a path that leads to despotism, you really need a different word to describe it.
   IMHO.