A Political Pondering That's Been On My Mind For The Past Three Years

In the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers envisioned life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all. However, they also thoroughly designed the United States to be a land where everyone is governed by laws and not by men and women.

When it comes to the pursuit of happiness, this very philosophy, while brilliant and eternally admirable, is not one to be taken literally or for granted. And, when malignant narcissistic sociopaths determine that, in order to be happy, that they:

a) succeed ruthlessly at any cost, 

b) that everyone and everything else fails, 

c) that laws and social norms and orders are to be circumvented and broken, 

d) that they need to hijack the political environment and flood the social fabric with eccentric rhetoric purposefully crafted with lie after after lie after lie in what can only be described as a plot of subterfuge, and 

e) they find a sick, twisted, perverse joy in seeing average law-abiding citizens mal-informed and overwhelmed into submission so they can get away with their own crimes, the magnitude of which may not be fully realized until it is far too late, society as a whole is required for the sake of democracy's survival to draw the line on what exactly freedom is and is not.

Otherwise, not only will the general public be imperiled and the safeguards of what enabled us to live in prosperous times will be irreparably broken, but our society will be doomed to again incur the wrath and destruction of future demagogues who wish to cross any sort of a moral event horizon for their own gains and desires.

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