"...From The Consent Of The Governed."

Thomas Jefferson was one very smart guy, I'm sure you'll agree.*

He wrote some of the more dramatic and important documents during our Country's Founding, beginning with this one:

     "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.  That to secure these Rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed."

(Above underlines mine)

The foregoing was from the text of the Declaration of Independence.  And the reason I bring it up this fine day is for its last line; "...deriving their just power from the consent of the governed."  What Mr. Jefferson was telling us with these words is that we appoint folks to represent us in a Representative Republic, which is exactly what we have (if your best buddy tells you we have a democracy, find another best buddy...).  And those folks enact rules and regulations and laws and such to govern our puny lives.  And if they do a good job, most likely we never, ever hear about them.  

Ever.

But if they screw up, like politicians are wont to do, and as they've been doing wholesale these days (Cuomo?  Witmer?  Bottoms?  DeBlasio?), then you and I, that would be "We," as in "We, The People," reserve the Right to withdraw our consent.

Sort of like the good citizens of California are in the process of doing with their "Boy Guv" Gavin Newsom, and those of Minneapolis will likely try to do with their "Boy Mayor" Jacob Frey.  Voted in because of their perfectly-quaffed hair, or their Dentyne smile, or their good looks, or what freebies they promise to deliver, best believe this; between the two of them they couldn't pour piss out of a boot. 

But then there's O'Biden's offering.  He's now (in)famous for his attempt at the Declaration at a Texas campaign stop with, "We hold these truths to be self-evident.  All men and women are created equal.  And, you know the thing!..." 

My dear departed Mom would have said to that, "Bless his little heart."

So We, the People give our permission to elected representatives to make decisions on our behalf.  We, the Governed, give our consent.  And here's an example of that consent:  The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution tells us flat-out that "...the Right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."  Not occasionally, not most of the time, not NEVER!  However, Mr. O'Biden has just told us, looking squintingly for the camera lens, perhaps trying to find it, that "No Amendment is absolute."  That none of them, he says, are anything but "Words on a paper," he said, which he or other Progressives can change at will.

"And, you know, the thing!"  

In fact, I so "think not," and am so outraged at this un-American comment, that I hereby withdraw my consent.  If anyone out there in Internet-land knows him or anyone close to him, please let them know of my decision.  He just issued a bunch of fluffy Executive Orders masquerading as a rule or regulation I'm supposed to follow.  I think now's as good a time as any to let it be known I shall not.  But thanks a lot for asking, Joe.  Get back to me when or if you have other ideas for how we might Constitutionally keep folks away from guns if they shouldn't have them.  Oh yeah, and keep the subject of guns away from politicians when they absolutely have no business talking about it.  

Like you, Joe...

The "consent of the governed."  We are the governed.  You and me.  They, the people we hire to govern us, had better get their collective act(s) together.  For until or unless they do, I'll/we'll just kindly take back our consent, thank you.........  

*  If you happened to wander onto this little unassuming blog posting from the HuffPo, or The Daily Beast, or Axios, he was one of our Founding Fathers.  One of the folks who helped build America.  That racist and homophobic country you despise so much.  Something you probably didn't care to know...