Just Do It: Admit that the 'Consent of the Governed' is Dead, and Begin to Fight Back

The fundamental transformation has succeeded. It is time for conservatives to accept it and write a new chapter of the human struggle toward the consent of the governed. Or die trying.

If you want some absolute truth, here you go: There are influencers, and then there are the rest of us.

I’ve mentioned these influencers before. In 1215 AD, they forced a king to obey his own laws and launched 800 years of progress toward a government under which the rest of us could consent to be ruled. The rulers resisted for a long time, but “we the people” thought the war was won when they finally said they accepted “democracy.”

But progress toward perfecting “democracy” ended sometime in the last 30 years. Why? Because “liberal” progressives stopped believing in the importance of individual rights. As John Stuart Mill observed in 1869, “A people, it appears, may be progressive for a certain length of time, and then stop: when does it stop? When it ceases to possess individuality.”

Today, a significant number of influencers are actively working to reduce human population by 95%, and a large segment of the population actively want to be enslaved by global fascism. If you think that’s a conspiracy theory, consider the video of Stanford University’s Renee DiResta explaining how a new fascism — the government and its private “partners” — can be built on top of a mass censorship platform.

Elections have consequences, and the man who famously said that had eight years of opportunities to pull America back from the precipice. In just one example, Barack Obama’s Justice Department could have prosecuted Hillary Clinton for numerous crimes. As Secretary of State, she allowed foreign adversaries to access her private email server, thus undermining national security. As a candidate for president, her campaign paid a foreign spy to generate misinformation and disinformation about the man who ended up winning the election.

Instead, Obama pushed America closer to the cliff with a political FBI investigation to benefit Hillary Clinton. The nuclear fallout of that decision is still poisoning our democracy today, almost a decade later, leading to the ongoing destruction of America’s election security, her economic health, and the ability to fend off foreign adversaries.

Eight hundred years after the Magna Carta, influencers encouraged a president to violate his own laws, and it is no coincidence that Executive Order 13694 was signed on April Fool’s Day, 2015. Obama could have prosecuted Hillary Clinton for being “responsible for or complicit in, or to have engaged in, directly or indirectly, cyber-enabled activities originating from, or directed by persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States that are reasonably likely to result in, or have materially contributed to, a significant threat to the national security, foreign policy, or economic health or financial stability of the United States.”

The fundamental transformation has succeeded. It is time for conservatives to admit that, accept it, and write a new chapter of the human struggle toward the consent of the governed. Or die trying. Maybe both.