Of, By, and For the People? Or Against the People?

The Preamble to the Constitution clearly identifies our country’s sovereign: “We the people.” Thus, our government – in Abraham Lincoln’s famous phrasing – is “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

Yet in 2013 is the government “for the people,” or is it actively against us?

Our government shuts down memorials that cost nothing to run for political purposes, turning 85-year-old World War II heroes into political pawns. Our fully politicized IRS targets and weakens the administration’s opponents, tainting the result of the 2012 presidential election. Now, law-abiding Americans live under the threat of an IRS investigation, because of their political views…or because the name of their organization is deemed offensive by the government.

Our National Security Agency routinely spies on innocent people under no suspicion of criminal activity. Our too-powerful politicians call citizens who disagree with them “terrorists,” “anarchists,” and “lunatics,” and compare them to dictators, murderers, and suicide bombers. Our government officials have immeasurable disdain for the American people. They say things like “we have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it” without fear of repercussion.

How much will we take?

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