Pointing fingers. The insanity of humanity persists.

 

The Supreme Court is assumed to scrap a 1935 Supreme Court ruling in Humphrey’s Executor vs United States.  And in doing so impact the fate of our nation and the world.  Something nearly every decision our so called 'independent' government has made in our irreversible interdependent reality.

Is this case Trump's loyalist assert that the President can fire an agency chief for any whim.  In oral arguments this week, the court’s conservative tribe gerrymandered a response to squash that decision.  The courts’ three liberal justices strongly disagreed. Justice Sonja Sotomayer asserted that overturning Humphries would “destroy the structure of government“.  Something this nation’s wannabe King has been chiseling away at for almost a decade.

The outcome of this Court decision would put all federal agencies under direct Presidential control with a gerrymandered construct known as “unitary executive theory“.  This is actually a partisan hypothesis that appears logical to the six conservative justices.  Except, maybe one exception for the Federal Reserve which determines markets.  An agency that should be divorced from partisan politics.

History suggests this problem should be left to Congress, not the courts. Only Congress has the power to eliminate the removal of the leaders of the agencies that it created.  But given the conservative stacked court, the outcome appears inevitable.  And the consequences will be ominous.

Congress had been given agencies significant separation from the president since earliest days the republic. Specifically shielding them from political partisan pressure. The conservative crazies believe that Trump can fire anyone he wants without due cause.   Consider him staffing the Federal Communications Commission with his grovelers.  It could then punish the media for criticizing him.   Or, he could load the Securities and Exchange Commission with officials who will look the other way when Trump’s and his friends are deep into corruption!

While these agencies are part of the executive branch, they should remain outside of executive control. Their survival should be impervious to majority elections, and a minority of fickle voters.  This flawed unitary executive theory suggests even the Fed should be under the President control. Only President Trump wants this.

Whatever happens next summer, this ruling will likely overturn Humphrey. And with it - the concept that the federal agencies should remain separation from partisan politics.   Simply because everything is globally interdependent and a politicized fed would jeopardize the global economy. Just as every other US foreign and domestic policy already does, with global consequences (bad or good) for every living thing.

So while many will be pointing a finger at Trump and his minions, and the Republicans for stacking the Supreme Court years ago, they should look at their hand and note that their three other fingers are pointing back at them.

And then note the two things “We the People” have never corrected since the creation of the US Constitution 11 years after the Declaration of Independence. First is a constitution itself.  It was erected on a faulty foundation of quicksand, with the delusional the word independence.  A concept that exists nowhere in the universe.

The one thing the constitution got right was its first three words.  “We the people” and the need for separation of powers.  This uniqueness of the American system did give power to the people. But that power has yet resulted in achieving any of the seven intentions mentioned in its preamble.  Some progress is made, much of that progress is now heading backwards with a president wielding near King capacity.

This power exposes the second mental law of our system, prioritizing democracy, without ensuring justice for all and the protection of some of the most basic inalienable rights.  Without these...no democracy can work. So says Thomas Jefferson (and others) knowing democracy is basically the tyranny of the majority.  With the majority getting what it wants, but not what humankind and nature needs to be healthy and sustainable.

Democracy requires these two other elements.  “Liberty and justice for all”, which every American has pledged before our flag. And maximum security.  The vital concept that Thomas Payne offered in his profound document “Common Sense” months before the Declaration of Independence as patriots were being killed by an all-powerful King. Payne asserted the only legitimate purpose of a government is to protect the “freedom and security” of people.

During the making of both the Declaration and our Constitution, it was horrifically clear what’s the freedom was worth dying for!  And just as important ‘Security’ can only be assured by virtuous people.

Today’s shortsighted selfishness that too many Americans demonstrates with contentment with a lack of virtue in our behaviors, US foreign policy, military policy, economic policies, and too many leaders we have elected- then reelected.

The most obvious evidence of this truism is the election of President Trump, twice!

This is the populist insanity of humanity that exists globally, since the failure of the United Nations to protect us from the global forces of poverty, pandemics, violent extremism, extreme weather conditions, and now multiple forms of WMD in our era where our mind as enabled the weaponization of everything.

Note that the UN was never given the power to stop these global disrupters.  It as a democratic decision by those powerful nations that won World War II.  The wisdom of the ages (the Golden Rule) was ignored.

Watch the great 10-hour documentary now available for free on PBS, the American Revolution. In it the inspiration of our founders by indigenous tribes in the northeast colonies was referenced.   Unfortunately, the founders ignored two vital elements of the indigenous governing system. We still ignore it today. 

The first is the power that women were given in making decisions with their wisdom of looking back and ahead seven generations.  

Second is there collective tribe’s knowledge and respect for all the things that their lives depend on.  This gave them all the same ‘mind’   They did not pledge to protect a piece of paper.  They acknowledge their thankfulness of all the blessings humankind has been given by nature, and the importance of everyone being united in the mind as well as their bodies in being human.

Unfortunately, the human mind now has the capacity to believe anything!  Then make weapons of mass destruction for killing in mass!  With a willingness to die in masses --  in defence of other mental constructs that once served a uniting purpose but now unite us narrowly into lethal mental divisions - starting with the delusional concept we are independent from nature.  And other divisive constructs like politics, nationalism, religion, and capitalist worship.

Thus, over the last few thousand years, individuals with the most money and power have reinforced the establishment of these once-bonding, but now divisive systems.  And “we the people” repeatedly fail to grasp this reality and change it.  And create a system or follow a plan to ensure the health and well-being of everyone and nature.

After World War II, this should’ve been a self-evident truth - given the genocides, wars, and the evolution of weaponry and pathogens that came after.

Americans, especially should have woken up to the roots of our silence - given the civil war Lincoln did.  A war that cost more American lies that all the wars and revolutions we have fought in since then combined.

Thus, the ideal of America remains great and supreme. But as a place and a people our nation remains an insane-asylum – doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.  Instead of the asylum of freedom the founders first envisioned. That even they didn’t practice it at the time.