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Originally Posted by trobesmom
Correction. Barr believes in the rule of law until it pertains to Trump. He has a blind spot there.
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What's worse is there are plenty of true believers who are eroding our republic just as much while breaking no laws at all.
When the intent of our elected officials turns from fair governance to ensuring their party either stays in power or defeats the current power, that intent is just as damaging as breaking the law is to our nation.
It isn't a matter of law when that takes over. It's a matter of how our laws are created, written and are processed.
Most of that is done only by our traditions as a republic and by rules that are set by our elected representatives. Not by law. Only by agreement on the rules. The rules themselves are not laws.
They are only the responsibility of our elected officials to abide by, and they can be defied or broken or changed without changing any laws. Our elected officials have only their sense of duty to keep them responsible to obeying the rules and procedures. There is no penalty to breaking those rules except losing the next election for any of them.
And when our representatives shirk their duty to all our citizens, including the ones who didn't vote for them in their home states and the ones who live in other states, that is far more damaging to our republic than what a few law-breakers can accomplish.
A federal law must be written with the best benefit possible for us all in mind. A republic needs to have that benefit in mind with every law, every time, to be the best republic it can be.
It's something that has been forgotten by far too many of our elected officials from top to bottom these days. Winning at all cost creates the conditions where the crooks can flourish.
Shirking their duty also means regulation ends up in the hands of bureaucrats to create.
They often do it with the best and most honest intentions, but it's really the job of Congress to decide the regulation, not them. hey are there to implement what Congress says, not to dictate what the regulation should be.
So not all bureaucrats are crooks, but there are always a few crooked ones among them. That's human nature.
If you really want to change Washington, each one of us will have to vote our favorite bastard out of Congress until Congress itself finally steps up and does its job as it is supposed to be done.
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