The State of the Union --- Substack

article by Bradley Thompson

From the link just above, I'll "show my work" on what makes up this post. I saw it on Instapundit, read it all, as the link suggests, and saw something that I'd like to share. Firstly, the article below, and I will show the comment to the article that I'd like to share...

The State of the Union by C. Bradley Thompson

. . . and What You Can Do About It

Read on Substack

If you've read the article, here's the comment that I've embedded from a tweet I made...

The tweet is directly below:

The State of the Union https://t.co/ohpTbxo8Gm --- A comment upon the Substack article link above. I will elaborate a little on a post in my blog.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) January 18, 2025

And for my comment (I'm getting there, promise!):



The reference is to a book written by Leonard Peikoff. It is called "The Ominous Parallels". 

 

 

The Ominous Parallels is available on Amazon.

Now finally, here's the comment:



I've read the book, which was a long time ago. The solution suggested was Ayn Rand's Objectivism. I've read several books on Ayn Rand's philosophy, which I would recommend. The thing is, you don't have to believe in Ayn Rand's philosophy here. But she does lay down a good bedrock of how one should approach this subject.

It reminds me of what Ronald Reagan once said in one of his State of the Union speeches. He said three words make the USA's government different from all other governments, and those words are in the Preamble of the United States Constitution--- "WE THE PEOPLE".

The Constitution is a philosophy of government. How do you approach governing a people? Where does the power originate? From the people! That's the philosophy of government inherent in the US Constitution. The modern day gubmint seeks to overthrow that, and replace it with what the rest of the world does --- which is the other way around. In the rest of the word, the government tells the people what to do. However, the Constitution does the opposite.

Therefore, I think the solution is to re-affirm that the philosophy of our government is to keep the Constitutional philosophy that WE THE PEOPLE are in charge of our government, and not the other way around--which was Ronald Reagan's point in that 1987 State of the Union address. In my opinion, it is under that philosophy that we can keep our Republic and our freedom.