The Missing 13th Amendment
It’s hard to believe that we’re embarking upon yet another bruising election season soon…although you’d be forgiven if you thought the last one was still going on. The whining and bleating about the results of the last Presidential election held almost 3 years ago still echoes like the screech of vultures circling above picked over carrion.
As shown in the attached graphic, venerable news outlet CNN just displayed the results of theoretical matchups between the declared Democratic candidates and the presumed opponent Donald Trump. Even hardcore leftists would take this graphic with a barrel of salt…I mean come on, it’s CNN. In the meantime, many more presidential aspirants are popping up like mushrooms after a rainfall in a swampy forest including the biggest loon bag of all, Bill De Blasio. At present, there are over 20 declared candidates who genuinely think that there are enough non institutionalized people out there that would subscribe to their version of reality.
The vast majority of the declared candidates are from the states that normally lean heavily Democratic and that’s not really a surprise. California, New York, Massachusetts are known to be the fonts of unhinged logic and hence the preponderance of spiral eyed politicos emanate from those states. The majority of them are lawyers who have done nothing in their lives but pander to their constituencies with increasingly extreme rhetoric. None have built a business or endured the hardships of running one. The one contender that has, Howard Shultz, is shunned by the mainstream Democrats as being a spoiler since he chooses to run as an Independant.
You would think that mass delusion has taken hold of these candidates because there is not the remotest of chances that they would be embraced by any outside of their protected enclaves. To the degree that they’ve even articulated a view for America, those views are as appealing to the values of Americans as a skunk at a picnic. Unfortunately, that is the source of their genius. They don’t have to appeal to the majority of Americans. They need only to corral the votes of those in their populous constituencies, since there may be enough seats there to tip the balance of the houses. So it’s a about strategy and tactics not about ideology.
Some like De Blasio and Eric Swalwell don’t even try to hide their mental condition since their constituents are like minded as proven by their being voted into office. Some like Biden have a long history of being useless, but apparently also not a disqualifier. Fortunately as time goes on, the various faults of the candidates will become glaringly obvious under the harsh light of policy revelations…especially since, like the infamous John Kerry, many of them were for policy ‘X’ before they were against it. As noted, many (and most) aspirants to political office are lawyers. By definition, lawyers are not beholden to principles since their education and vocation are to argue for their version of truth. Clearly their value system is not rooted in absolutes but in relativity.
In the dawning years of America, such a notion had been considered when drawing up the basic structure of public governance. David Dodge, an archival research expert, discusses this in his research on the missing 13th amendment. Essentially, the gist of it was that lawyers were to be prohibited from holding public office. This may have been prescient on the part of the founders way back when, but it seems especially apt today when it appears that a law degree is common as cold sores at a frat party…and as easy to get.