Vox Populi - Part One

Vox Populi – a multi-part series of web essays exploring the malfeasance of liberal ideology

The Foundation – We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” – Preamble to the Constitution of the United States.

It is not “We the government”, it is “We the people!” Our country was founded on the idea that the people are to govern themselves by their freedoms and rights as individuals, ruled by the conscience of a God-fearing soul. The right to triumphs and tragedies is central to our existence as humans. Everyone has the right to an opinion and to speak their opinion and to pursue the desires of their hearts. However, we must never forget that we are a people, “one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”

We rule by the voice of the people, Vox Populi. It is the collective voice that makes our laws. For as much as we are individuals, we must also co-exist with one another. This requires mutual respect and tolerance. We must realize that our voice may often be contrary to that of our fellow men even in regard to matters that we personally find important. This is not a reason to cause contention, but an opportunity to understand one another.

In any system, there are always outliers that hold opinions that are often damaging to society, but most people realize that the common good is a far better way. The problem become when the outliers vie for prominence as though their ideas are mainstream. Even more damaging is when they undertake such an endeavor by speaking the words of a free society.

You have heard many from both sides preach similar platitudes time and again. They are always for the people and for the good of the country. There is one major difference in regards to the different agendas, the freedom of the people. Liberal ideology often spout the sayings of a free people, but usually offers solutions that lead us further down the road to socialism and fascism. They usurp the rights of the people as a whole for the rights of the individual at the same time proclaiming it for the good of the people. Saying the individual has lost his rights when really his voice is simply contrary to the voice of the people.

They treat people as though they do not have the sense to govern themselves and must be watched over and guided. This is contrary to the very foundations of the great country in which we live. Government is there for the service of the people with a responsibility to follow the people’s voice. For “We the people” have a God given right to live according to our own consciences.

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