"Presidents cannot really, and should not really control the country. Under the real U.S. Constitution, the president has a certain, limited job to do, and controlling the country isn't it.
"So, when it comes to domestic policy and the country, the less the president does the better. He should not try to intervene in everything. He should stay out of almost everything domestic."
Why Joe Biden Can Still Hurt America. Bad. Who is really running the country?
That's another question being asked a lot lately that instigated me writing this piece: "who is running the country?" No one "runs the country." "The country" is a group of independent states that each "run" themselves united in purpose mainly for security.
The government gives us the impression that it is otherwise, that they are atop a nation-state that is organized as a hierarchy of control. You seem to think that isn't really true, and I suspect you are right.
There is a hierarchy, to be sure, but most Americans have it upside down, and that's how the (federal) government prefers it. From top to bottom, the government would have you (and most people do) believe that the hierarchy is: federal government -> state government -> the people. According to our founding documents, the actual hierarchy is: the people -> state government -> federal government.
Here is a small quote from the Federalist No. 45:
"The state governments will have the advantage of the federal government, whether we compare them in respect to the immediate dependence of the one on the other; to the weight of personal influence which each side will possess; to the powers respectively vested in them; to the predilection and probable support of the people; to the disposition and faculty of resisting and frustrating the measures of each other.
The state governments may be regarded as constituent and essential parts of the federal government; whilst the latter is no wise essential to the operation or organisation of the former."
Our elected REPRESENTATIVES have taken it upon themselves to assume more power and authority than they were EVER intended to have. There have been some President's, and others, who think themselves some sort of KING of our country, which is NOTHING like what our government is set up to be.
There is a large portion of We the People who have either paid no attention to what is going on because they have no knowledge of how the system is constructed OR they just don't care. This kind of mentality is detrimental to maintaining our Republic. A huge part of the problem is the fact that our illustrious "leaders" decided to get involved in the education of our youth. Then they replaced courses like CIVICS and US HISTORY (REAL history, not the woke version of things), with "social studies." The process of dumbing down the public started many years ago. Those who THINK they have power always want MORE. And they will manipulate things any way possible to gain more control than ANYONE should ever have.
"Our elected REPRESENTATIVES have taken it upon themselves to assume more power and authority than they were EVER intended to have."
I would like to amend slightly your opening comment to say "Our elected REPRESENTATIVES have taken it upon themselves to abdicate their responsibilities in order to vest Supreme Control of all things in the hands of a central administrative state that were appointed as duties of the individual states and the citizens of those respective states."
"Presidents cannot really, and should not really control the country. Under the real U.S. Constitution, the president has a certain, limited job to do, and controlling the country isn't it.
"So, when it comes to domestic policy and the country, the less the president does the better. He should not try to intervene in everything. He should stay out of almost everything domestic."
Why Joe Biden Can Still Hurt America. Bad. Who is really running the country?
https://open.substack.com/pub/michael796/p/why-joe-biden-can-still-hurt-america
That's another question being asked a lot lately that instigated me writing this piece: "who is running the country?" No one "runs the country." "The country" is a group of independent states that each "run" themselves united in purpose mainly for security.
That's certainly the way it's supposed to be.
The government gives us the impression that it is otherwise, that they are atop a nation-state that is organized as a hierarchy of control. You seem to think that isn't really true, and I suspect you are right.
There is a hierarchy, to be sure, but most Americans have it upside down, and that's how the (federal) government prefers it. From top to bottom, the government would have you (and most people do) believe that the hierarchy is: federal government -> state government -> the people. According to our founding documents, the actual hierarchy is: the people -> state government -> federal government.
Here is a small quote from the Federalist No. 45:
"The state governments will have the advantage of the federal government, whether we compare them in respect to the immediate dependence of the one on the other; to the weight of personal influence which each side will possess; to the powers respectively vested in them; to the predilection and probable support of the people; to the disposition and faculty of resisting and frustrating the measures of each other.
The state governments may be regarded as constituent and essential parts of the federal government; whilst the latter is no wise essential to the operation or organisation of the former."
From my view, the state governments also should not be "running the country". Less government = more freedom = more productivity and greater happiness
Government should be *minimal* - at all levels!
"To The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States,
Resist much, obey little;
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved;
no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty."
- Walt Whitman
Our elected REPRESENTATIVES have taken it upon themselves to assume more power and authority than they were EVER intended to have. There have been some President's, and others, who think themselves some sort of KING of our country, which is NOTHING like what our government is set up to be.
There is a large portion of We the People who have either paid no attention to what is going on because they have no knowledge of how the system is constructed OR they just don't care. This kind of mentality is detrimental to maintaining our Republic. A huge part of the problem is the fact that our illustrious "leaders" decided to get involved in the education of our youth. Then they replaced courses like CIVICS and US HISTORY (REAL history, not the woke version of things), with "social studies." The process of dumbing down the public started many years ago. Those who THINK they have power always want MORE. And they will manipulate things any way possible to gain more control than ANYONE should ever have.
"Our elected REPRESENTATIVES have taken it upon themselves to assume more power and authority than they were EVER intended to have."
I would like to amend slightly your opening comment to say "Our elected REPRESENTATIVES have taken it upon themselves to abdicate their responsibilities in order to vest Supreme Control of all things in the hands of a central administrative state that were appointed as duties of the individual states and the citizens of those respective states."
You mean the "Commander-in-Chief" isn't the "Tyrant-in-Charge"? {sarcasm}