"The full experiment of a government democratical, but representative, was and is still reserved for us. The idea... has been carried by us more or less into all our legislative and executive departments; but it has not yet, by any of us, been pushed into all the ramifications of the system, so far as to leave no authority existing not responsible to the people; whose rights, however, to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods... My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual."--Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1816. The Complete Writings of Thomas Jefferson; Memorial Edition; volume 15: page 65; 1904.
Beaten and battered, the experimental system of which Thomas Jefferson dreamed 195 years ago still has the potential to be realized by his spiritual political heirs. We must break the corporatist oligarchy which threatens our freedom, and seek a return to those economic policies and protections that were so callously discarded by Ronald Reagan thirty years ago. We must see to: the overturning of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC, even if Congress must invoke Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution to do so; the elimination of corporate personhood and the two tier system of justice it embodies; the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Anti-Labor Act in order to reestablish labor unions and the middle class they engender; renewed enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act as amended to return real competition to the American marketplace; prosecution of government officials for wrongdoing including war crimes, violation of human rights both at home and abroad, and bribery in the form of campaign contributions and jobs once they leave government service.
This is what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote of "My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise," in his letter to Mr. Tiffany in 1816. Our politicians and pseudo-aristocracy seem to have forgotten that in this nation, no one is above the law.
And Evil to Him Who Thinks It. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense.)
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