Elections and Jeffersonians

I generally try to avoid politics on this blog because it has always been fairly religiously oriented. My over-arching political mantra is Salvation cometh not from Politicians. 

As most of my readers know, I am a leftover Jeffersonian agrarian. There are not too many of us left on the Federal level. We certainly aren't welcomed in either branch of the uniparty. We believe in State sovereignty and real Federalism are really the only things that keep the Republic together. Top down control from the center was precisely what the Founding Fathers wished to avoid. Even ardent centralizing power people like Adams and Hamilton would be horrified at the size and scope of the American Federal government, the biggest bureaucracy the world has ever created.

Case in point: Alexander Hamilton ran the entire US Department of the Treasury for six years with three employees, one of which was part time because he farmed. I would not even care to guess how many employees work at or with the US Treasury nowadays. It's not doubt in the tens of thousands, depending on how many degrees of Kevin Bacon you want to go out from the actual Treasury department. 

As such, I have watched the last election, as I do most elections, with morbid fascination. Republicans got their heads handed to them on a platter of their own making. Trump promised to control inflation/commodity prices and not get involved in another foreign war boondoggle. None of which he was able to do, and it blew up in his face. 

So, that branch of the Uniparty got pruned. It will grow back eventually. The Democrats were let bolt and will likely go to seed in a few months. They seem to be drunk on revenge against Trump and Republicans which is not what people really voted for. People want prices to be affordable and the Iran flap to end. They won't listen and go off and hang themselves with the rope they were handed. They will find a way to do it. Both sides always do. 

Fear not. Salvation cometh not from Politicians. It never did and never will.


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