Americans are witnessing a fundamental shift in how our government governs.
From successful use of the general election process, a small group of conservative idealists who are promoting a narrow, populist conservative platform have turned the establishment upside-down.
A battle was fought over the rival theories of federal rights vs. states’ rights.
A bloodless revolution has occurred.
The magnetic poles have reversed: North is now South.
The spin of the Earth is reversed: East is now sunset.
These are the real changes of how the federal government now relates to us citizens in this newly deconstructed administrative paradigm.
What we’ll soon see is reduced or eliminated federal codes and reduced federal law enforcement from social and non-essential departments.
Yet this battle is not isolated to Washington, D.C.
The same revolution is occurring here in Port Angeles, where a group of conservative idealists have used the general election process to support a narrow, populist platform.
This November, the local citizens are going to vote on this same issue of canceling the code-based form of government and adopt a second-class-city form of government.
Up is down.
What will this new order mean?
Will a darker, more nefarious government be born from this cycle?
Can we survive the messy transition until the wrongs are righted, or when the right are wronged, or the right becomes “lefted”?
All I know is, I’m glad to live in Sequim.
Stirling Kent Hall,
Sequim