RED ALERT POLITICS_ On Election Day, don't forget: It's a republic, if we can keep it

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On Election Day, don't forget: It's a republic, if we can keep it


by Tim Murcek | November 06, 2018 12:00 AM

In perhaps one of the most poignant interactions surrounding the ratification of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin left Independence Hall and was accosted by a citizen of Philadelphia who posed the question, “What have we got, Mr. Franklin? A republic or a monarchy?” Most have heard Franklin’s notorious, almost pessimistic reply, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

Every other November, and sometimes more often, we vote. We send representatives to our townships, counties, state legislatures, and Washington, D.C., to represent our interests and ensure the future security of the republican form of government. Some elections receive more pomp and circumstance than others, but each is fundamentally necessary for the preservation of our way of governance.

Yet, when a citizenry has so long been favored with the privilege of self-government, it often becomes callous to the blessings such a system bestows.

Congressional approval in recent years often never rises above 25 percent, and even in years past, rarely reaches 35 percent. Presidential approval hovers in the 40-50 percent range, with the occasional spike in either direction during nation-shaking events. Inarguably, government has grown more intrusive than it was ever intended to be. Inefficient, out-of-control spending creates a looming financial crisis, judicial activism runs rampant, as the nation’s courts create law rather than interpret it, trade barriers drive up production costs and hurt both producer and consumer, unwise foreign alliances and tedious appeasement policy attempt to band-aid wounds that need comprehensive surgery, border crises reveal that U.S. immigration policy is essentially nonexistent, and reform is desperately needed.

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