The People are not the problem... The problem is UNWORTHY GOVERNMENT. Government, that would deny the People their sovereign right to assume, among the powers of the earth, an equal station as entitled by the laws of nature and of nature’s God. Good governments are created by Godly People and are suitable only for the governance of a moral and religious people. However, when any government forgets its station as the servant of the People; the People, reserve the right to dissolve such governments, and too lay new foundations for a government that seems best suited to their cause and recognizes the sovereign will of the People. Our Founding fathers put it best in the 'Declaration of Independence when they penned these immortal words:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." Quote Declaration of Independence
Our Founders went on to state that governments ought not to be easily overthrown... and only after enduring many hardships, abuses, and unfaithful acts of tyranny that it becomes EVIDENT, the government is out to reduce the people to an absolute state of subjugation do the People have the right, nay, the duty to cast off such governments, by the most expedient and peaceful means possible... forming new governments as they require and deem necessary. The founders declared this precept as a fundamental right of the People in the 'Declaration of Independence as follows:
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of government..." Quote Declaration of Independence
The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the People and their United States. The cause for the long delay in the People taking action is embedded in their patients and wisdom that precludes acting in haste to dissolve the bands of governance which have so long been workable.... to their benefit. The People, however, now find their government to be acting like a tyrant, and after many waves of abuse and attempts at reform... the People are on the cusp of discharging their Federal Government leadership to choose new guides by which to be governed.
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It appears that the people are satisfied with their government... allowing it to continue down the road to perdition and despotism.
" And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: may they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.." Quote Alex De Tocqueville