"A house divided cannot stand"

The United States from the day it was born was torn between opposing interests

both believing their positions was the best for our nation. The battles were hard

fought and with the exception of the Civil War the country unified without a shot

being fired.

Most battles were about form of governance, state sovereignty and limits of 

government overreaching. But none was as dangerous as the one being 

fought today.

As it was from our founding, political discourse has torn people apart and in

many cases they will never bind again. One side appreciates American 

governance and respects the results of elections, the other will not accept

results which takes away their power.

No country can survive such a divide, a reminder Lincoln told the nation,

"A house divided cannot stand", but forgotten today. 

I offer this opening for the following commentary from Rush Limbaugh

concerning the deliberate undermining of the efforts of the Trump 

Administration.  Limbaugh cites what most have not, but its vital for

all Americans to understand; governance as intended is under threat.

The Limbaugh commentary:

RUSH:  It was Sharia Islam that I was comparing the Democrats. It’s all rooted in the fact that the Democrat Party. is controlled by the Left. Forget Democrat Party. The left, the leftists, communist, socialists, no longer respect the authority of the Constitution.

The only authority that they respect is their power, and therefore there is no such thing as bipartisanship with them. And this is the mistake that I hear Republicans continuing to make even now on campaign trails. You will hear many to this day campaigns on the notion that we need to be able to reach across the aisle and to reach compromise, and show that we can govern together. This is not who Democrats are. They don’t want compromise! They don’t respect us. They insist we are not legitimate. We are enemies, as big an enemy as any other enemy they have.

The Left's objective is total rule over the United States, not sharing power one election to the next. They do not respect the authority of elections. They refuse to accept that they lost. They’re never gonna behave as though they lost, because they don’t respect the authority of the Constitution. The Constitution is what every elected official swears an oath to. The reason for that is the Constitution is the glue.

Folks, think of it this way. We have this massively unique, greatest country ever. There isn’t a country that’s ever even been close! We are the first country in the history of the world to enshrine in our founding the principle that people of the country are free by virtue of their creation, and their rights come from God, not from other men or governments.

And we are the first and the only country founded and created, enshrined with the values that it is the people who run this country. And elections are the mechanism by which we choose the people who will lead it. And what holds this together? All it is is a series,of many pieces of paper the Constitution. That’s it. Throughout our nearly 250 years, we have had a majority of our population accept and agree and obey the notion that the Constitution is the defining authority of our country, that it is the glue that holds us together as a culture, as a society.

It’s rather stunning to me that it’s lasted this long, because the only way it can work is if a majority of the people in this country — including the people elected — honor it. What is the penalty for not honoring it? Well, we’re seeing right now there isn’t one. In the Civil War, if you didn’t honor it, Abe Lincoln came after you and wiped the floor with you until you agreed to stop the secession and rejoin the Union. What penalty is there today for spitting on it, for ignoring it? There isn’t any! I don’t quite know how to express this.

It’s amazing to me that we do not require a national military or police force to keep people in line. It has been nothing but the sworn fealty to that document, the cherished belief in that cherished document of how great it is. 

Well, where we are right now the Democrat Party, the American left is demonstrating it doesn’t believe any such thing. It doesn’t want to have to respect the authority of that document, and it’s in the process of demonstrating that they don’t. Elections don’t mean diddly-squat to them. Public opinion doesn’t mean diddly-squat to them.

The only thing that matters to them is their authority. Anybody challenging their authority? There’s no negotiation. There’s no debate. There’s no attempt to persuade. All there is is an effort to destroy anybody who rejects their authority. When their leader happens to win the election, there is total respect for that leader’s authority. When they don’t win the election, the only thing they’re devoted to is destroying the leader with whom they disagree. There’s no effort to work together. There’s no compromise. There’s no bipartisanship.

All of that is a giant myth. My analogy was there’s something else like that on the planet today, and it’s called Sharia Islam. If you don’t accept the principle of Sharia Islam, you know what can happen to you, and there’s no compromise. In this analogy the GOP are the infidels, and the Democrats are the Sharia Islam believers. They’re not interested in what we think, just like Sharia Islam doesn’t care what you think of various aspects of Sharia. If you don’t respect it, you are gonna be dealt with one way or the other.

Your ideas and your heart and your mind don’t matter one hell of a bit, and that’s where we are. And you see it every day here in the way the Democrat Party and the media and the left is conducting itself. What is their number one objective today? To get rid of the people who won the election, because they do not respect or even acknowledge… It’s not even a matter of respect. They don’t even acknowledge the authority that the Constitution vests in the winners of elections. 

For all of the years of this great country, whatever opposing political factions we’ve had, at the end of the day there has been an acknowledgment that there’s something greater than either of our movements, and it’s the Constitution. There’s no giant gun enforcing it. There’s no giant military making people obey it. Some might say that what we are in the midst of is a movement committing treason against this Constitution. What is the way treason is dealt with in the Constitution? Whatever it is, is not being used against the left. When you stop and think about it, it’s inarguable.

There’s no bipartisanship. There’s no understanding. There’s no compromise. It’s simply a lack of respect and acknowledgment of the authority that the Constitution vests in the way our politics is handled in this country.

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