Collapse is Inevitable

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Though some may last centuries, inevitably, all great civilizations eventually collapse.  There is no perfect system, and often even the best system that can stand the test of time is eventually consumed with corruption, immorality, and the consequences of a hungry desire for power and riches.  The United States as we know it will collapse, eventually.  I am not being a fatalist, and I am willing to fight to make sure that doesn't happen during my lifetime, during the lifetime of my children, or during the lifetime of my grandchildren, but the reality is that eventually this will fail, and the tyrants will take over. . . for a while.

As a Constitutionalist, I am fighting for what I believe to be the best system our nation can thrive under.  That superior system is one that adheres to the principles of the United States Constitution, of which our Founding Fathers so carefully crafted during a four-month marathon of debate in 1787, and one they believed came into being because of Divine Providence.  What we received, after the verbal battles in Philadelphia over the creation of a new government, as Benjamin Franklin put it, was a new republic. . . if we could keep it.

I also recognize, as one that supports, defends, and promotes The Constitution, that though my efforts to educate the public about the principles of the Constitution is in large an effort to stop the bleeding and turn this country around, we may find ourselves collapsing sooner than we wish.  My efforts, however, would not be in vain.  Perhaps, if we try to educate enough people, especially in terms of the younger generation, after the collapse, when a new system tries to rise from the ashes of the system poisoned by tyrants, it will be one that grabs a hold of Constitutional principles. In other words, educating the public is not only for trying to save the country, but to pass down the knowledge to the generation that must pull the damaged nation out of the pit of tyranny we so foolishly allowed to grab us, if collapse indeed does envelope us.

The fact is, the Constitution is nothing more than ink and paper if we don't fight for it, and even if only one person continues to stand for liberty, liberty lives.  The real question is are we willing to do the right thing, no matter what it takes?  Are we willing to face tyranny without folding like a collapsible chair?  Or as our founders put it in the last line of the Declaration of Independence, are we willing to "mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our Sacred Honor"?

I am.

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