I’m pretty sure I’m old! I mean, I don’t feel old. My wife tells me to act my age! I’ve always believed there was OLD, OLDER, and OLDEST, so I’m just old. But I do remember a time when we were taught civics in school. We learned how the three branches of government worked together to provide a system of checks and balances.

I learned how the executive, legislative, and judicial branches kept each other in line with the authority established by the Constitution. That was then; this is now. I marvel when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or any Democrat screams that they’re only trying to protect the Constitution. Personally, I don’t think Pelosi would recognize the Constitution if it came up and bit her in the … leg.

The whole “separation of Church and State” narrative began when I was still in high school. It’s a lie, but it has been repeated for so long that there are even many conservatives who don’t know it’s a lie. If you read the Constitution yourself, it’s nowhere to be found.

Thomas Jefferson saw this problem a long time ago. He wrote in 1804: “The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their own sphere of action but for the Legislative and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.” He was prophetic.

Laws were the responsibility of the legislature to create. The debate between opposing political parties would ensure a well-structured law that would be signed by the president. The judiciary was not established to determine which laws were constitutional and which were not. It’s obvious to anyone who knows the Founding Fathers’ original intent that the system has gone very, very wrong!

In my lifetime, I’ve seen the Supreme Court find a “right” cleverly hidden in the Constitution that allowed a woman to kill her preborn child. Most recently, the justices found a right to make same-sex marriage the law of the land despite centuries of history. These are just a few of the laws created by the “despotic branch.”

Even with the effort made by Republican presidents to appoint constitutional constructionists to the Court, it has not always worked the way it was intended. I’m including Chief Justice John Roberts in the mix (very loosely speaking). Presently we are told there is a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, yet the abuse of power continues.

The Founders had a clear vision of what a republican form of government looked like. Leftists have turned the Constitution into a “mere thing of wax,” as Jefferson feared. Will we ever find lawmakers who have the courage to stand against the current political tide and demand we follow the Constitution as intended?

Every abuse of government by unlawful legislation from the bench has brought us to this point. Can we find legislators with courage and spines made of steel to stop this descent into tyranny? Packing the Supreme Court will bring about the tyranny we fear sooner than we could have imagined. Will we wake up and demand accountability from our Courts?

Something to think about?