EMPTY BARRELS

Empty barrels are noisy when rolled along a cobbled street.  And by definition “empty” i.e.: providing no benefit (no salt, no oil, no foodstuffs) for all the effort and noise that they make when they are moved.

We have too many of these in the nation these days.  Too many of our citizens and leaders and former leaders are eager to make noises that provide no benefit to the nation.  They undermine the PEOPLE’S CHOICE for no valid or meaningful reason—and in doing so undermine our entire democratic system.

The sacred (yes sacred) aspect of our US quadrennial elections is that they return the power to THE PEOPLE ..for that brief period of time we spend  in the ballot boxes.   The people make a choice—it is a reaffirmation of the very basis or our national philosophy—that the power to govern resides in the people.  Power resides not in past or former government officials, the media, past Presidents, scions of political dynasties, or poplar leaders— but only in the ballot box!  And that decision of the people must be honored by those in the minority (the losers) of the electorate.  Without that agreement and compromise of the electorate to quietly honor the change in leadership and the (temporary-until the next election) power of the majority over the minority— we all lose.  There will be no United States of America.  If we were to permit the empty barrels to force us to give up that critical basic idea—we become only another of many tin-pot dictatorships of the new world..  With these developments we are moving toward a dystopian system in which chaos and internal strife will mark each change in government leadership.

The rumbling, noisy empty barrels of this nation have to be silenced.  The threat to our democracy comes not from the President—who was legitimately elected (like him or not) but from the resisters—the sore losers, whiners, and empty barrels—those who persist in delegitimizing the choice of the people—the  empty barrels who would undermine our whole system for their own selfish purposes and ends. .