For those of you that haven’t heard, SCOTUS has decided not to hear the Texas lawsuit against the four swing states, MI, WI, GA, & PA. Texas along with 17 other states, AL, AR, FL, IN,KS, LA, MS, MT, NE, ND, OK, SC, SD, TN, UT, WV, & MO filed a lawsuit declaring it unconstitutional for those four swing states to change their election rules in the way they did. In addition 106 House Republicans announced their support for the lawsuit including President Donald Trump.
SCOTUS has said that they are denying for “lack of standing under Article 3 of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections.” It appears that SCOTUS is attempting to claim they have no jurisdiction in this case. To abdicate their responsibility to do the job that, in fact, this institution was created to do demonstrates a lack of courage, or incompetence.
There are rumors spreading online about succession and it makes one wonder what unites us? When you think about it you may come to the same conclusion. There is very little which unites us. Matt Walsh has written about this and he makes a good point. It make me think of our founding, what kept the 13 original colonies united? With victory from the British behind them what persuaded them to unite? Why not stay independent?
There were many arguments in the Continental Congress, it seems they didn’t agree on much. John Adams once said that if they were to argue that 2+2=4 they would all eventually agree but debate it for three days on the best way to come to that conclusion. To unite everyone was a difficult task and each colony had to negotiate and be willing to give and take. There were many issues in those days and to unite under a federal government was a big one. Many were afraid of giving power to a federal entity. Originally the Federal Government had very little power and even then they were afraid of what could happen. I guess they were able to see what could happen when you give someone power, they will abuse it. Obviously they did eventually agree to unite under the Constitution and it held together for a long time until the secession of 1861.
Why was it so important to the founders to unite? Many of them gave up things that were important to them. Slavery was a contentious subject and all but 3 colonies were wanting it to go. Perhaps the hypocrisy of fighting for freedom from Britain and then keeping people enslaved did not go unnoticed. As history shows this country was founded with the evil and horrible institution of slavery. Even still, it remained and with the personal beliefs of many of the founders being against slavery it is hard to believe that they were willing to go along with that.
What are we willing to go along with today? And are we willing to unite? It would appear that we are unable to do so. Many on the left today are all but hiding their contempt for those on the right. The values that we hold dear are rotten to the left and they can not accept them. The value of life, freedom, and many others are not accepted and they are actively trying to destroy them. If we can not at least agree to disagree and meet in the middle and give and take, perhaps secession is our only choice. For the sake of this great experiment called the United States hopefully that is not true.
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