Obama Degrades The Presidency Even Further

The presidency has shed its humble constitutional role in a number of ways over the years, what with unilateral presidential wars (lacking the necessary declaration of war by Congress), unilateral executive agreements (lacking the necessary two-thirds approval by the Senate for treaties), and unilateral executive orders carrying the force of law (lacking actual legislation to support it). 

The lives, liberty, and property destroyed as a result of all this were terrifying to contemplate when Obama assumed office in 2009, but he has managed to make the situation even worse.  To the mountain of illicit presidential practices, Obama has now added the assassination of U.S. citizens without due process of law and refusing to execute the laws passed by Congress concerning the deportation of illegal aliens.  When considering these in tandem, it is clear that the president no longer cares about his oath of office or even represents the American people -- we are to be targeted on his say-so against the Constitution, but illegal aliens have nothing to fear from him even though it's his constitutional duty to target them.

We are entering the final stage of transition to totalitarianism:  when even the pretense of law vanishes.  For the more perceptive, the federal government has been totalitarian for quite some time because it has long acted as though its power is boundless and that the Constitution may be ignored if "necessary."  The fact that the federal government didn't exert this boundless power made no difference; the arrogant presumption of being able to do so was totalitarian regardless.  That potential energy now has gone kinetic and become visible to the common man.  As I wrote in my first book seven years ago:

Critics of viewpoints such as mine howl that America is still the most free and prosperous country on Earth, which in truth is more an indictment of the world than a compliment of modern America. The indentured servant surely occupies a better station than the outright slave, but that is no cause for the indentured servant to celebrate. We are entitled to far more than what we now have, and we need not resign ourselves to indentured servitude for sheer gratefulness that things might be even worse. And things will become worse anyway if we don’t act. How much time remains until our laughable pretense of constitutional government gives way to full-blown, unabashed dictatorship? It could be years, months, or even days. Only a few more nudges would push us over the edge into the totalitarian abyss, at which point any peaceful strategies will lose their effectiveness.

This may be a point of ethnic pride, but political liberty and the rule of law depend on "squares" like the WASPs who founded this country, people who are now mocked for our priggishness, rectitude, and self-denial.  But the joke's on all of you.  I love the America that my ancestors founded, for even with its imperfections it was far superior to this degraded husk of a republic that my contemporaries now infest with all their vaunted verve.  The grandeur they wrap themselves in is not their own, but the remnants of what my people created.  Enjoy what little of it remains, and you're welcome for the memories.