Biden’s Regrets, and Ours, by Karen Kwiatkowski

The American presidency must be cut way down to size. From Karen Kwiatkowski at lewrockwell.com:

Joe Biden regrets dropping out of the race, and wishes he had four more years. But as Lew Rockwell reminds us, it isn’t more or less of Biden’s dereliction of duty, defective morality, or diminished mental state that’s the problem.

The problem is the Executive Branch itself.  It is an imperial ruler with its imperial class presiding over  its ever-expanding empire. The modern American president has become the intermediary between God and the people, an American Pharaoh.   Unlike the real American Pharoah, limiting his activities to food, drink and sex, our American Pharaoh is working to set the world on fire, destroy his imaginary enemies, and subvert economies and human life all over the planet – often for no more rational reason than Because. He. Can.

Instead of worshipping the presidency, we must consider the extreme danger the bloated Executive Branch poses, not just to Americans, but to every person on the planet.  We must withhold our support as a rule, and only lend our support when the actions of the president and his unlimited executive branch conduct themselves in accordance with the hard-earned, hard-won fundamentals of the Constitution.

Rockwell writes, “If there is ever a time to get behind a president, it is when he withdraws from the world, stops wars, and brings the troops home. If there is ever a time to trip him up, question his leadership, and denounce his usurpations, it is when he does the opposite.”

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