Descent Into Tyranny

The Collusion Of Government, Media, and Commerce

The Specter of Post-Constitutionality

One of the more disturbing facets of our contemporary political environment is the continual disregard, and reinterpretation of the U. S. Constitution by the left. We live in society that is very close to being totally post-Constitutional. As a constitutional conservative, I attempted to analyze the recent actions of the U. S. Supreme Court, and Congress in view of the Constitution of the United States. I omit media and commerce as they are not constrained by the Constitution in precisely the same aspect as the Court and Congress.

My first reflex was to categorize their activity, that activity being, among other things, the Court’s refusal to adjudicate in an interstate electoral dispute, and Congress’s “impeachment” of a private citizen as “un-Constitutional.” Yet “un-Constitutional” suggests the action taken, or legislation enacted is inadvertently contrary to the Constitution. Thus, “un-Constitutional” did not seem to apply

My next analysis was to apply “extra-Constitutional” to their collective action. “Extra-” implies some deliberate action that is outside the intent of the Constitution. While “extra-Constitutional” can be applied to Congress’s attempted impeachment of a private citizen, it is inadequate in that it fails to account for the absence of a clearly explicit responsibility of, and required action by the Supreme Court.

The only conclusion I can come to is that the present oligarchy (media, tech, the “woke” culture, and government) is post-Constitutional. Their individual actions suggests they collectively view the Constitution as irrelevant, or at best only marginally relevant–thus “post-Constitutional.” As “post-Constitutionalists,” socially unpopular segments of the constitution, such as election mandates, and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution can be legislated and adjudicated into oblivion. As “post-Constitutionalists,” media and commerce can act as arms of the government without accountability, dismiss its protections as archaic and detrimental to a “well-ordered society,” and thereby “ethically” impose censorship, courts at all levels can refuse to adjudicate controversial, but constitutionally required legal challenges, and Congress can legislate protected rights into illegality.

From Post-Constitutional to Oligarchy to Tyranny

As I suggested above, in a post-Constitutional atmosphere, media and commerce can act as unofficial, albeit complementary, arms of government without the unpleasantness of being accountable to Congressional colleagues. Lots of lip-service can be devoted in objection to the overreach and biases of media and commerce, but so long as the three government branches are under the majority control of the post-constitutionalists, not much can be done. The oligarchy of media, commerce, and government, whether secret, tacit, or overt, eviscerates a government by the consent of the people, a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. An oligarchic triumvirate is, by classical definition, tyrannical, as it acts without the consent of the people it affects.

Consequences For The Future

A post-Constitutional oligarchy may have graves consequences for our future. We are already seeing proposed legislation that addresses “equality” for people who claim their gender is wrong; after all, boys will be girls.

Post-Constitutional jurists may rule it is “unconstitutional” to discriminate against people simply because they wish to be another gender, thus allowing biological men self-identifying as women to be sheltered in the same room as biological women who had been victims of sexual abuse, transsexual men to become nuns, and males, self-identifying as women, participating in women’s sports.

Post-Constitutional stances allow legislators to circumvent the federalist intent of our framers to install national voting laws that negate states’ attempts to regulate their own elections. And once again, post-Constitutional jurists could dismiss legal challenges as having no standing, or legally adjudicate there are no Constitutional issues at stake, thus cementing national control over elections.

Also looming are a bevy of anti-gun proposals that range from fundamentally changing “the right to keep and bear arms” into a licensed privilege to requiring background checks simply to purchase ammunition, and prohibiting the sale of ammunition via the internet. In a post-Constitutional atmosphere legal challenges to such legislation will likely be dismissed for lack of standing, or the legislation adjudicated “Constitutional,” for any number of arbitrary justifications.

Update 22 April 2021: Another facet of this “plausible deniability” administration is their reliance on commerce, notably big industry, to do what it could not do within the constraints of the Constitution, or without the strenuous objection of the electorate. A case in point are so-called “vaccine passports.” The administration has quietly conceded that vaccine passports are not in its best interests, but is eerily quiet as big commerce hints that companies may impose requirements for vaccine passports to use their services. It seems the OBriceklainiden hydra is willing to allow big commerce to accomplish what it could not–de facto movement control through vaccine passports (unless, of course, you are a border-jumping illegal alien, then have no need for any documentation for anything).

The left has become the progenitors and executors of post-constitutionality. The left has become the post-Americans; tyrants advocating under any topic de jure the deprivation of the unalienable Rights of their fellow citizens, while upgrading the same for themselves as privileges befitting their undeniably unique status and virtue.