Burning Down, Down, Down.

Welcome to July the 4th of the new America.

Nationalists control the major media and news sources, the executive branch of the government, and the judiciary. The idea of competitive government balanced against itself has collapsed into a morass of broken decision making. The birthday of this country is marked by impeachment proceedings on the most deserving president in the history of this, our United States.

This morning I printed out a copy of the Constitution and decided to eat it piece by piece. I got all the way through the preamble before I choked on the irony.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

It wasn't the ideal that failed in America. It was the idea itself. The constitution was written as a document meant to protect freedoms. It's been hijacked into a document dictating morality, not to the government, but to the people. The founders, given the chance to re-write the constitution today would have taken a different tack. Seeing their grand experiment in the failing stages they would have written fewer escape clauses.

We have vast stores of information today. The system of decay is building on itself, eating away at the cornerstones of the ideal with twists of language and congenital diseases built into the fabric of the institution. The competitive nature of the government, where it competes even against the people, has built a nation with a very narrow definition of success which leaves little room for expansion or self expression. Still the people...we the people...move forward, becoming progressively more dis-satisfied with each injustice until the noble ideal itself burns.