Member-only story

A Warning for the Citizens of The United States of America

T. Mark Mangum
4 min readDec 30, 2024
Photo by Fleur on Unsplash

When a nation’s citizenry is unable to hold its public officials accountable, whether elected, appointed, employed, or contracted, it does not live in a free society.

In the United States of America, the Constitution provides for checks and balances that are meant to keep powerful governmental officials in line and to conduct themselves in accordance with the law and moral standards.

Unfortunately, checks and balances only work if there are moral actors willing to execute the power of the Constitution to constrain the conduct of government officials.

Over the last few decades, We The People, have witnessed the decline of moral standing in our government officials. We are now at a place where they will tell us outright they are horrible, law-breaking, immoral cogs in a power kleptocracy, and we can’t do anything about it.

Examples? Some of you may be asking.

Syria. The United States has been involved in the occupation of Syria since 2014.

Ukraine. The United States and its allies have backed the Ukrainians, prolonging the war since before the Russian invasion in 2022.

Trial Judge. The Judge assigned to the Luigi Mangione case has an extreme conflict of interest level but refuses to recuse…

--

--

T. Mark Mangum
T. Mark Mangum

Written by T. Mark Mangum

For the serious reader. Short, compelling fiction for the serious reader. I use Imagination, wonder, and surprise to create my tales. Please Enjoy reading them.

Responses (2)