{"id":33721,"date":"2018-04-25T07:01:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T12:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33721"},"modified":"2018-04-25T07:01:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T12:01:24","slug":"the-road-to-2025-part-4-a-very-bright-future-if-we-demand-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33721","title":{"rendered":"The Road to 2025 (Part 4) \u2013 A Very Bright Future If We Demand It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Road to 2025 (Part 4) \u2013 A Very Bright Future If We Demand It<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Whenever<\/span>\u00a0all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 Thomas Jefferson letter to C.Hammond<\/a>, 1821<\/p>\n

The first three parts of this series focused on the obvious reality that imperial America is not just increasingly being seen as a rogue state around the world, but that it\u2019s also become harmful and parasitic to its own people. It\u2019s become abundantly clear that empire is not compatible with Constitutional government.<\/p>\n

As power and resources have become increasingly centralized in Washington D.C., the American people have suffered. We\u2019ve suffered from an increasingly rigged economic and financial system, continued security-state encroachment in the form of mass surveillance and a militarization of police, and a war industry which relentlessly funnels more and more wealth toward protecting imperial dominance overseas.<\/p>\n

As anyone who\u2019s read the U.S. Constitution knows, this is not the way the union was supposed to function. Indeed, the founders were obsessed with avoiding the pitfalls of European empires since they knew how that story ends. At the federal level, a separation of powers between the three branches of government: the legislative, the executive and the judicial was a key component of the Constitution. The specific purpose here was to prevent an accumulation of excessive centralized power within a specific area of government.<\/p>\n

While this separation of powers still exists on paper, it\u2019s been eroded to a very dangerous degree. When it comes to war, which the legislative branch is supposed to declare, Congress has chosen to abdicate its responsibility and simply allows the executive to do whatever it wants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Road to 2025 (Part 4) \u2013 A Very Bright Future If We Demand It Whenever\u00a0all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[1670,15199,379,4285,6174,827,865],"class_list":["post-33721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-centralization","tag-decentralization","tag-government","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33722,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33721\/revisions\/33722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}