Christopher D. Lowe
The one thing that has undermined our constitutional Government is allegiance to personality over allegiance to rule of law.
We have abandoned our rule of law and constitution upon which it based with wild abandon, landing us precisely in the mess we’re in.
We all run to “persons” to “fix” our issues, grant our land, “get” our government job, “protect us from our enemies/debtors.
We call names of people, hoping to be afforded some special consideration through perceived association with them.
We run up the flagpole the names of those who have fallen afoul of other names, show the most promise of a coup within the political parties to lead us out of this mess.
None of which will have any hope in hell of correcting the societal woes we are beset with.
They become mired in the same tribalism which is at the root of our Nations pathetic state.
We laugh at the latest political unfortunate enough to be thrown under the bus, to become a political outcast.
Tribalism is a legitimate form of societal governance, even predating other forms of government, but not for any nation with a developed constitution and rule of law based thereon.
Tribalism can be benevolent, tyrannical, but almost always micro-managed.
It is based on the individual leader.
The “personal Power” assumed by most in “public service” is no longer attached to the “Constitutional Authority” assigned, and has been warped beyond recognition in that there is no responsibility to balance the Authority.
But, these personalities are all we have left, so we clamor and fawn over them, hopeful that fate will smile on us, that we were noticed, that we will be accepted into the tribe.
When countries are run on the whim of a few, the few who have undermined the very basis of their authority, the visible results around us are inevitable, and will remain until we return to rule of law and loyalty to our constitution.
