At last the abusers of power and exploiters of humanity faced consequences for their unabated spree of crimes against humanity. How the mighty had plummeted. Stripped of their wealth, freedom, authority, and individuality, with shaven heads and sunken shoulders, the uniformed inhabitants of the nightmarish "correctional facilities" (of their making) choked on the acerbic medicine they had so gleefully prescribed for so many of their "inferiors". Fortunately for them, justice and compassion guided their jailers. State executions, torture, and prisoner abuse had been eliminated.
While the ousted power brokers met their fate, a new Constitutional Convention had convened. The new founders were truly representative of We the People. The assembly was comprised of men, women, Blacks, Latinos, Whites, Asians, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Atheists, Gays, Native Americans, the disabled, the mentally ill, and more. Ensuring diversity and equality was a significant priority to the new government.
Habeas corpus, checks and balances, the separation of powers, and the Bill of Rights were restored and enshrined as the cornerstones of the new federal government. Numerous rights and responsibilities were ceded to the state level, balancing the power between the federal and state governments. The rule of law once again prevailed over the rule of man. Big Brother was properly neutered and caged.
Wisely retaining the Preamble, and building upon it, those crafting the new Constitution determined that public funds would be dispersed in equal measures to revamp and sustain the judicial system to "establish Justice", to provide the means to "insure domestic tranquility", to maintain a military just large enough to "provide for the common defense", to fund humanitarian programs to "promote the general Welfare", and to perpetuate an independent watchdog entity comprised of elected representatives from each state (empowered to initiate a national referendum at any time to call for another Constitutional Convention) "to secure the Blessings of Liberty".
They abolished the Electoral College and electronic voting machines. Congress was reduced to a unicameral body comprised of elected members with each state represented in proportion to its population. Each member was limited to one term of six years. An unlimited number of political parties were given the right to equal share of public campaign funding. New legislation made private campaign contributions and lobbying felony offenses.
The infinitely complex tax scheme which had enabled the criminal class to pay so little was relegated to the dust bin of history. A flat rate tax on personal, business, and corporate income, sales taxes, luxury taxes, tariffs, and property taxes filled the public coffers with money that benefited each citizen as equally as possible.
Corporate personhood was abolished. The new government of the people nationalized major corporations providing essential goods and services such as healthcare, food, and utilities. The plethora of corporate industrial complexes, including the prison and military, naturally withered as federal funding for their malevolent and profligate programs was cut to the quick.
Assets seized from the criminal ruling class were utilized to provide a financial jump-start for this second attempt at forming an "asylum for mankind". Collaborating closely, national and local governments, nationalized industries, and businesses kept in check by a reasonable degree of public oversight worked to ensure that every citizen in their nation of excessive wealth had access to quality health care, education, food, and shelter.
As a majority of US citizens focused their attention on matters of the spirit and new laws were implemented to deter rapacious capitalism, many of the social and economic institutions shriveled, atrophied, or collapsed. Consumer protection statutes and diminished appetites for material possessions dealt severe blows to Master Card and Visa. New and more effective anti-trust legislation crushed leviathans like Wal-Mart and Microsoft. Small business owners could flourish (at last) in an environment devoid of competitor-crushing monopolies.
Moral clarity and clear-mindedness armed the masses against the relentless flow of lies and manipulations manufactured by Madison Avenue and the corporate media. Individuals and churches exploiting religion for their empowerment and enrichment found their pews and collection plates as empty as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. Grossly overpaid entertainers and athletes awoke to a stinging reality in which the public no longer worshipped them nor showered them with obscene riches.
Begging forgiveness from the rest of the world, US Americans withdrew hundreds of thousands of troops occupying other nations. Together with the rest of the "nuclear club" they began dismantling their doomsday weapons. The Zionist state collapsed when the United States ceased subsidizing its genocide and militarism. Palestine became a model of diversity as Jews, Christians, and Muslims imprisoned the proponents of violence and hatred in their midst and followed the example of their former patrons by forging a new government that truly served the interests of the people.
With the Neocons tried, convicted, and imprisoned for egregious war crimes, a withdrawal of US troops around the globe, and justice restored in Palestine, the "unfathomable" came to pass. Asymmetrical attacks on the United States and its Western allies came to a screeching halt. At long last the "War on Terror" was exposed for the sham that it was.
Having surrendered their perceived invulnerability, hubris, and narcissism, US Americans awoke from their state of mass delusion and began to perceive reality. Rather than launching military invasions that murdered millions of innocent civilians, the servants of We the People crafted and implemented a foreign policy based on the simplicity of the Golden Rule. Acting with fairness and respect, US leaders employed diplomacy, dispensed humanitarian aid without strings, and eliminated the military option excepting situations involving self-defense.
Despite the "loss" of material wealth, the power to dominate the world, and the "entitlements" associated with the capacity to crush virtually all opposition, those who had found a unifying set of convictions in the wisdom of Christ and dismantled the American Empire could rejoice. Gaining far more than they had lost, they had reclaimed their souls, individually and collectively. And they believed Christ's assertion:
"He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city."]
Mother Teresa once said, "Each one of them is Jesus in disguise."
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