American Truth

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When the Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia after the American Revolution to try to conjure up a formula for the new United States of America, it is hard to imagine the size of the challenge they faced.  They had just been through a war and finally had shed the miserable cloak of tyranny from England.  They were embarking on a quest for a blueprint to insure that they and their fellow citizens would not find themselves at the mercy of another monarchy or tyrant.  They were grappling with incredibly divergent ideas about stability and longevity for the new republic.

Fortunately for us, they focused on Truth as being the central lynchpin of the new political mechanism.  Starting with truth, they layered, like an onion, the various sentences and paragraphs, enshrining the pursuit of truth and rule of law as ideals that would become our Constitution.  Imagine the arguments, interminable debate and ultimate compromise that resulted in a remarkable document that has guided our actions as a country for over 200 years.

What they couldn’t possibly have realized was the brilliance of the result.  They had no idea whether it would work or falter.  There was no history, no example that predicted success.

Fast Forward 242 years…..

We are living through our own chapter in the evolving experiment we call democracy.  Our country has changed, evolved and become something the Founding Fathers could not have imagined 242 years ago, and yet we are still clutching to a document and an ideal that we believe will be our salvation.  Why?  Because it has always been there to save us.  It is our foundation, and we all believe in it’s central lynchpin…..The Truth.  Face it….democracy cannot exist without the truth.

So what we are witnessing every day is the clash of that central lynchpin with a force that is attempting to corrupt it.  Those battles have always been there during our history, but this time the battle seems more existential.

As Americans, we have taken for granted that we believed in our ideal, that we are one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.  It is our bedrock belief.  We never expected to be testing that ideal in the way we are currently having to grapple with the situation we face today in America.  What we are witnessing everyday is the messy, bloody battle that is the hallmark of democracy…a minute by minute conflagration between the purity of truth and the rot of corruption.

And the end result, I believe, will be the triumph of Truth and the Rule of Law.  You can actually see the beginnings of our collective consciousness coming to the realization that what we have been enduring for the past two years is perhaps one of the largest battles we have ever fought on this battleground.

The Trump administration ushered in an amplified era of lies and deception and we weren’t paying attention as guardians of our Constitution.  And it didn’t just suddenly happen two years ago.  We have been on this slide for several decades as greed and self-interest got the upper hand in our legislative machinery.  Somehow the agents of corruption slipped in, bringing all the deplorable characters that are their sycophantic minions with them.  Like a cancer that takes root, or a tapeworm that latches onto its host, they found their way into the body politic bloodstream and are attempting to corrupt the integrity of the machine so carefully constructed by our forefathers.  They will ultimately fail.  You can see signs of it appearing in so many ways:

--The steadfastness of the Special Counsel

--The awakening of the populace and increasing size of the Blue Wave developing on the electoral horizon

--The recent polls showing that the majority of Americans want Mueller’s probe to continue

--The increasing mania of the Trumpists as the evidence grows concerning obstruction of justice and the collusion with Russia.

--The daily hysteria from the White House, with louder and more disgusting vitriol every day.

--The emerging facts about Michael Cohen and all of Trump's and his shenanigans.

All these signs and so many more that are beginning to be seen by all of us, should give us confidence and hope that the process of vetting our true ideals according to our Constitution is working.  It is messy and causes incredible anxiety, but the purity of Truth and our belief in the rule of law will ultimately be America’s salvation.