The Game of Government

Just for fun, let’s regard the government as a game.

It is, in a way. There are rules, roles, and regalia, a bank, an army, real estate. You could construct any number of exciting board games from this apparatus. In order to play the game of government, you are presented with a rulebook that you are required to follow. You are not allowed to tear up the rule book and make your own rules that you then insist are binding to all other players.

As is true of every game there is from checkers to baseball, if you persist in breaking the rules of the game, you are disqualified from playing. You are out of the game. You are not allowed back in the game. You must go away and let the players who are following the rules continue the game.

This is also true of actual government. If a person working within the government breaks the rules, they are stopped and corrected. If they continue to willfully break the rules, they are removed from their position. This is true regardless of what role they may be playing from humble functionary to head of state.

In the case of more sensitive positions in our government, persons are even required to take an oath swearing to faithfully uphold and protect the Constitution and laws of this country, i.e., the rules of the game. But — interesting tidbit — the current president did not place his hand on the Bible when he took the oath of office at his inauguration. Perhaps he doesn’t think the rules apply to him?

If so, he is wrong. The rules apply to everyone playing the game. He has disqualified himself already by his flagrant violation of the rules of our government — all that remains is for the other players to expel him from the game.