Who Watches the Watchmen

This is Steven Petrick Posting.

Yes, the title is a movie currently playing, and the movie has its own take, but the question is a legitimate one.

We see an example of it in Iran, where the Mullahs are the watchmen, and their upper tiers have become as corrupt as any entrenched political group.

In our society, We the People are the watchmen. We are to judge those who rule over us and, with the power of our votes, judge them as fit or not. There is a question of just how many of us are taking this task seriously, and our failure to do so may ultimately doom the Republic. Because no one is watching us. No one makes us fulfill our task as the watchmen, so most of us are increasingly divorced from what our elected leaders are actually doing, whether they be Republicans or Democrats, Congressmen, Presidents, Governors, or Mayors.

There will come a day when a reckoning will be had for the inattention we have paid as our leaders at all levels have slid the country towards the abyss. In the end, we will have no one to blame but ourselves.