What is a nation? And what will it take to destroy it?
The 19th century French historian Ernest Renan famously defined it as a spiritual rather than a physical entity.
A nation is a soul and a spiritual principle. Two things, properly speaking, which are actually one and the same, constitute this soul, this spiritual principle. One is the past. The other is now. One is that we share and own a rich heritage of memories. The other is the current agreement, the desire to live together, the desire to continue investing in the inheritance we have jointly received. Dear Meshu, humans do not improvise. Nations, like individuals, are the result of a long past of effort, sacrifice, and dedication.
Agree. But my agreement makes me more anxious than I'd like to admit. Spiritual beings are much more fragile than physical beings. Because it relies on faith, it can be destroyed much more easily. And faith can be shaken. It can even be destroyed. And worst of all, we are most susceptible to internal enemies rather than external enemies.
What did we believe here in America?
First of all, it was definitely the Constitution. It represents the constraints that make our country a good and just republic, and therefore shows that we are a good and just people. Because how can one exist without the other?
What we're seeing now is the Justice Department working to destroy officials it deems hostile to their chosen ideology, no matter how questionable or unconstitutional. This means that all legal means are being used. Even the right to a speedy trial has been ignored for those who entered the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Many of them are in prison for longer than they would have received in Washington, D.C.'s biased courts.
Most important of all was our faith in the election. The 2020 presidential election took place, and it was marred by massive and obvious fraud.
State by state, Donald Trump was seen gaining a lead, but at midnight the electoral count was simultaneously halted in exclusively Democratic-controlled counties in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia; Tens of thousands of new winners were to follow. I voted for an older candidate who campaigned from his basement. We were told to believe that this guy ultimately won an unprecedented 81 million votes.
Once we were allowed to see all sides. Now we need to be protected from “disinformation” or “misinformation” as defined by those who orchestrated election fraud and corrupted our institutions.
This fraud was clearly a matter of pride for many. The perpetrators did not hesitate to brag about the operation in Time magazine. In 2020, we witnessed an election process that can only be claimed to be fair by those who claim that voting by mail, without independent verification, is justified by the unrestricted expansion of voter access. But we know they're lying because it relies on two highly questionable assumptions. For one thing, having access to the voting process is a good thing in itself. Another is that there is no incentive for fraud in the electoral process.
We know that neither of these assumptions are true. Not everyone cares enough about elections to want to participate. The people who really care about participating in elections are the people who are invested in getting elected. And these are the people who have the most reason to cheat, so they need to ensure that their votes are not constrained by validity checks.
Combine those who don't care with those who want to win at all costs and you have the perfect recipe for a stolen election. People who have no intention of voting may be “voted” without permission, but no one will know because the people whose ballots were stolen just don't care.
Considering all of this, we are left asking ourselves a frightening question. How many of the elected representatives were actually elected fairly?
Third, I have confidence in the legitimacy of our country's judicial system. Once upon a time, we could go to court with the belief that no matter who we were dealing with or what we were dealing with, they would treat every issue before us completely fairly, justly and justly. Ta.
Instead, the judicial system rejected all but a few attempts to use the full range of judicial techniques to present evidence of fraud. In a decisive blow, the Supreme Court refused to hear Texas' lawsuit against the state for violating its own election laws, on the ridiculous grounds of “status.” But in a federal system, what recourse can a state take if another state rigs an election that affects all states? No country can make such a claim. If they are not entitled, who will claim them?
The Supreme Court's answer is clearly “nobody.”
Fourth was trust in the federal system. But we also learned how the Internal Revenue Service was used as a weapon against Tea Party groups in 2012, and how intelligence agencies were used to spread fraudulent information about Trump. And remember how the FBI covered up evidence of Biden family corruption while giving Hillary Clinton a pass. .
The Justice Department's purported investigation into wrongdoing by these institutions and individuals under Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr turned out to be a meaningless sham. No important players were charged. Mr. Barr even went out of his way to dismiss election fraud without reason, even though he clearly hadn't investigated it.
Fifth, the integrity and fairness of the media. No one laughed when Walter Cronkite ended the broadcast with, “That's right!” Now they will roll their eyes.
We all know that the American media is functionally a Democratic Party machine. In a true democracy, almost every media outlet wouldn't be claiming in unison that all claims of fraud in the 2020 election are just part of the “Big Lie.” They won't require reporters to write about claims of election fraud qualified by the words “baseless,” “false,” or “debunked.”
Number six, as you can see here; truth. It's a small word, but it's an important word.
Once we were allowed to see all sides. Once upon a time, we were given facts and allowed to choose the ones we thought represented the truth. Now we are being told that we must be protected from “disinformation” or “misinformation” as defined by the very people who orchestrated election fraud and corrupted our institutions. Add to this an ideology that breaks all common sense, allowing men to become women and women to become men at will. And what truths do we have left?
What is the motive behind all this: partisan judges who ignore their oath to uphold the Constitution, public servants who have no concern for the noble ideals they are supposed to live up to, journalists obsessed with ideology? Please think about it. First and foremost, it involves a deep contempt for the systems that created and nurtured us, and an admiration for what we are not.
For those who think this way, the perversion of our system is a good thing. they despise it. There's no way a system this bad could be damaged by such abuse, right?
Enter this with hatred for one man and the belief that any means, any tricks, any perversions of the legal system will be tolerated to stop him. These people don't know the word constraint. Nothing else can explain the over-the-top attempts by those who despise Donald Trump to destroy him. They don't trust people. Indeed, they are afraid of them. There's nothing they won't do to stop him. Nothing too extreme. there is nothing.
And what are we left with? Belief in our country? But it requires faith in its essence, its spirit. And where is our faith now?
