Any governance system devised by humans can be corrupted by humans. The Founding Fathers attempted, with our Constitution, to make the system as hard to corrupt as possible, but in the end it is up to ordinary citizens to defend the republic against sociopaths, con men, imbeciles and authoritarians like Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump.
James Madison wrote: “Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation, No theoretical checks—no form of government can render us secure.”
About 3,000 local people turned out Saturday in Santa Rosa to protest against sticking Latino infants in cages. We can stop the sociopaths if ordinary Americans act and act, time after time.
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