PROEM & POEM No. 166 - Constitutional Crisis / 2nd Reprise
Since the first constitutional crisis if you will, as proposed and ratified in U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 2, Clause 3, the ethical dilemma remained logically unresolved, uninterrupted from the Washington administration well into the 21st century thus the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations, with much indication presently of continuing.
Although contextualized as historically significant opposed to constitutionally critical, intentional or unintentional furtherance widened and deepened the crisis at large, additionally compounded even exasperated per gravely epochal events. Ironically, the first presidential term did not pass without horrific incident, as early as 1794 per Washington’s gross execution of military force against American citizens during the rightful Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania. Too many to list, however to selectively note a few constitutional as well ethical dilemmas following the aforementioned, some appallingly parallel to the African enslavement and Indigenous annihilation; Louisiana Purchase, War of 1812, Mexican-American War, Civil War, Spanish-American/Filipino-American Wars along with the many battles and wars against native tribes thus mass confiscation of their land, all the horrific “total” and political wars of the 20th/21st centuries and more.
It is astonishing whenever arises an alleged constitutional crisis, for many such events have been ignorantly missed, conveniently overlooked even opportunistically esteemed or naively hallowed. The astonishment heightens upon worrisome questions as to how the country became so politically despotic, socially chaotic, academically quixotic and economically idiotic. Instead of consistent critique per uncompromising regard for each and every individual’s Singular Right to Consent or Dissent on all matters, worry and concern merely incite and excite afresh the persistent then insistent partisanship, most conniving, bickering and slandering, parties and factions covetously preferring their presumptuous forms of political force and legal violence over others therefore none ethically distinctive.
Although contextualized as historically significant opposed to constitutionally critical, intentional or unintentional furtherance widened and deepened the crisis at large, additionally compounded even exasperated per gravely epochal events. Ironically, the first presidential term did not pass without horrific incident, as early as 1794 per Washington’s gross execution of military force against American citizens during the rightful Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania. Too many to list, however to selectively note a few constitutional as well ethical dilemmas following the aforementioned, some appallingly parallel to the African enslavement and Indigenous annihilation; Louisiana Purchase, War of 1812, Mexican-American War, Civil War, Spanish-American/Filipino-American Wars along with the many battles and wars against native tribes thus mass confiscation of their land, all the horrific “total” and political wars of the 20th/21st centuries and more.
It is astonishing whenever arises an alleged constitutional crisis, for many such events have been ignorantly missed, conveniently overlooked even opportunistically esteemed or naively hallowed. The astonishment heightens upon worrisome questions as to how the country became so politically despotic, socially chaotic, academically quixotic and economically idiotic. Instead of consistent critique per uncompromising regard for each and every individual’s Singular Right to Consent or Dissent on all matters, worry and concern merely incite and excite afresh the persistent then insistent partisanship, most conniving, bickering and slandering, parties and factions covetously preferring their presumptuous forms of political force and legal violence over others therefore none ethically distinctive.
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Again illogical, fantastical and guileful to oddly blend
Fondly portend, strongly contend, soon to violently ascend
Onward pretending, descending the subjugated to serfdom
Like mindless drones, prone to follow any fife and drum
To live by the violent blade, bullet, bomb, now the drone
Palms o’er bogarted hearts, thus the departed `low tombstones
To live by the politician’s violent pen, paper, equally the laws
Zen’ed by covetous souls, thus dire effects by desired cause
To live by another’s leave, forced to cleave, later to bereave
Assailing agitprop as prevailing backdrop so cleverly weaved
To breathe the toxicity `tween the complicity and duplicity
Inflating the whimsy as fancied infinity till end of the elasticity
Fondly portend, strongly contend, soon to violently ascend
Onward pretending, descending the subjugated to serfdom
Like mindless drones, prone to follow any fife and drum
To live by the violent blade, bullet, bomb, now the drone
Palms o’er bogarted hearts, thus the departed `low tombstones
To live by the politician’s violent pen, paper, equally the laws
Zen’ed by covetous souls, thus dire effects by desired cause
To live by another’s leave, forced to cleave, later to bereave
Assailing agitprop as prevailing backdrop so cleverly weaved
To breathe the toxicity `tween the complicity and duplicity
Inflating the whimsy as fancied infinity till end of the elasticity
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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
Copyright © 2020 by D.C. Quillan Stone
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