@The Liberal Moonbat

It's like the words in the Supreme Court ruling about presidential privelige. Those were nice words as well. Beautiful words. The best words. Such words.

We have lots and lots of nice words, written and unwritten. The sad thing is that our Betters, to a man, do not believe that those nice words apply to them. They believe that those nice words are meant for Somebody Else, not them. Such ever-so-nice words represent nothing more than an Inconvenience for those wielding the levers of power, and can be (and routinely are) utterly ignored.

That is the coup to which the OP refers. Our Betters do not give a flying Philadelphia fuck about those words, or your words, or my words, or anyone's words. And the beauty of their coup is that they know that we won't stop them.

The only thing that will stop them is nuclear war, or a complete collapse of the financial system, or maybe both. It ain't gonna be us, because we'll all be too busy happily shooting at anyone we see wearing the wrong tribe's jersey colors. None of us will bother to shoot at them, as they quietly scoot out of here for their foreign boltholes when the excrement finally and inevitably hits the impeller.

You wanted a terrible attitude? Try this one on for size.

Contrast it with this:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain 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 powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government."

Behold, the only settled and legitimate law of our land; any who'd deny it are nothing but gangsters.

I understand it's all very daunting - but despair is THEIR weapon over us.

@The Liberal Moonbat The context of those words only occured after a successful yet violet rebellion/revolution. Are you advocating a possible violent solution to bring back the justice from those words?

Contrast it with this:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain 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 powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government."

Behold, the only settled and legitimate law of our land; any who'd deny it are nothing but gangsters.

I understand it's all very daunting - but despair is THEIR weapon over us.

@on the cusp
goes back decades further than 2014.

reported back in 2014 that we are an oligarchy.
Trump is one of them. Biden is their puppet.
We 99% have had no effect on our country at the ballot box in a long time, and our votes then usually got us, at best, some sucky, weasel worm compromise, mostly to placate us.