Great post.

We look at the infected swamp of corruption that is DC and we feel deep contempt. That contempt stems from how far beyond the enumerated powers the thieves have gone.

Unfortuately this outcome was described exactly by Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America. Some quotes:

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

“If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event
may be attributed to the unlimited power of the majority.”

“In my opinion the main evil of the present democratic institutions of the United States does not arise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their overpowering strength; and I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the very inadequate securities which exist against tyranny.”

“…but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved.”

Sadly I see no end to the mooching majority enslaving the producing minority.
Therefore I see no beginning of a shift back to the enumerated powers.

And then there is this from Thomas Jefferson:

” The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” This is the context of the Second Amendment.

Let’s work hard to assure that the Tea Party Movement has a long future.

John Powser