The Forgotten Oaths: Serving the World, Neglecting the Nation – Flopping Aces

For centuries people have gone off to their state capital or to Washington D.C., and they’ve tried to make a difference. Please take note: this is completely true for people of both parties, anywhere on the political spectrum. Most of the time they want to do some sort of good but get stuck working for more power while convincing themselves that doing so is necessary “to do some good.” They can be a President or a Congresscritter or just another cog in the D.C. machine like my wife’s friend.

Before George Washington was President, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and lots of others went overseas to seek out allies and foreign power that could help in the revolution. Both men fell in love with France, and vice versa. However, their first loves were Pennsylvania and Virginia respectively. There was no United States, no “country” to call home. This lack of the abstract “country” meant that while they were away-be it in Congress or overseas, they remembered that they were wherever, doing whatever, for their neighbors.

Bit by bit, the world grew, and our country grew, and the balance of objective switched. Trying “to do some good” for our neighbors became “protecting and preserving our country.” There were some growth spurts when “The Country” grew fast and strong, but it wasn’t until the Fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War that America’s leaders in business and politics started fully embracing the globalist view instead of remembering what the states they represented needed.

The time has come to re-assess; or to remember.

535 Members of Congress and someone in the White House who tells Biden what to do, everyone at that State Department, Defense Department, the Intelligence Community, and all the agencies and departments under their umbrella…it seems they’ve all forgotten. They’ve forgotten that they went to D.C., and they volunteered to go all over the globe “to do some good” for their “Country.” But when they first dreamed of doing so, did they kick off their careers for the benefit of K Street, and 4-6 major electoral states? Or did they start their journeys start when they heard Mom and Dad crying about money, mortgages, healthcare, or jobs, at the dinner table, after they were supposed to be asleep? Did 535 people say, ‘I’m gonna run for office, so I can sit on the Armed Services Committee and push to make all our soldiers, sailors, and Marines rations, plant-based?’ Did someone become a diplomat or a general and live overseas for most of their lives because they wanted to ensure free and fair elections in Bulgaria?