Democracy is Destroying the Country

by

       George Sontag

      The United States was formed as a Republic, not a democracy. Article IV, Section 4, declares: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” The Founders have given us ample warning that democracies have historically led to tyranny and that, in their wisdom, they never intended our nation to devolve into a democracy. They feared the destructiveness that a majority might have in trying to make everyone equal, and in the process taking away property, rights of property, and with it our basic freedoms which they considered "God given Freedoms." They very much feared the development of the Robin Hood mentality we are seeing today – soak the rich and give to the poor. It is a democratic drift toward Socialism.

• “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.”-
  
  John Adams.
• "Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” - James Madison

      The planned ignorance of our own history has made it easier for statists in America to blur distinctions that have traditionally defined our Republic. If people are oblivious of America`s history and the changes that are slowly being made, they would naturally have little interest in defending it or the Founders` original intent. So, what is the transformation for which progressives seek? It is the "total rejection in theory of the principles and policies on which America has been founded. By using the word "democracy," progressives (in both political parties) have effectively begun to convert our Republican system that preserves unalienable and individual rights to an increasingly Socialist system that replaces the individual`s rights with government distributed entitlements. 

      Instead of considering the good of the country as a whole, candidates promise the people to take care of their every need, including their medical care and the people, relying on their promises, vote for those candidates. They have forgotten about the long term good of the country, the rights and responsibilities of individuals to run their own lives, and they are fast making our country a socialized welfare state.

      Our founders gave us a republic, with a representative form of government, and I believe that, under our Constitution, we have the best form of government that there has ever been. But an irresponsible people, electing irresponsible representatives, can ruin any government. We are today experiencing that very danger. We have had so much prosperity and so much ease of living, that we have lost our belief in personal responsibility. With it we have grown to believe in the ability of the government to take care of us, and we have lost our individualism.

      Today, all of the leading Democratic candidates are preying on the desires of the people for healthcare and other benefits. The idea of President John F. Kennedy, "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," has now been completely reversed making his ideals sound like a Republican Constitutionalist. Apparently the Democratic candidates of today think that the person who can get elected is the person who can promise the most government benefits to the people. This is the exact thing that our Founders feared. It leads to a socialized welfare state, the loss of individual freedom and of individual initiative. It will lead to the demise of America as the great bastion of freedom. It will eventually destroy our form of government and our country as we know it, as it has in all past democratic experiments. 

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Confessions of an Elected Official - A devastating inside look at the dark side of Congress as revealed by one of its own.

as told to:

       Zeno Potas

      I was raised as a Democrat. I was taught to stand up for the little guy, and that bigger government was the best way to do that. I registered to vote as a Democrat, and several years ago some Democrats recruited me to run for Congress. Now I see how the game is played. How we run the country is not how the public is led to believe. Our constituents aren't really paying close attention to what we do here in Washington, so we do it our way.  Voters are incredibly ignorant and know little about our form of government and how it works. It's far easier than you think to manipulate a nation of naive, self-absorbed sheep who crave instant gratification. Here's how it works;

• Democrats have built their image off of class warfare, race-based-politics, and envy. They promise, in every election, to better the lives of the afflicted by afflicting the affluent. Their entire philosophy is based, not off of individual empowerment, but off of gaining comfort through government dependency.

• Our party used to be a strong advocate for the working class. We still pretend to be, but we aren't. Large corporations and public unions grease the palms of those who have the power to determine legislative winners and losers.

• Most of my colleagues want to help the poor and disadvantaged. To a point. We certainly don't want to live among them. Or mingle with them, unless it's for a soup kitchen photo op. ... Poverty's a great concern as long as it's kept at a safe distance.

• Screw the next generation. Nobody here gives a rat's ass about the future and who's going to pay for all this stuff we vote for. That's the next generation's problem. It's all about immediate publicity, getting credit now, lookin' good for the upcoming election.

• My main job is to keep my job, to get reelected. It takes precedence over everything.

The truth is only what we say it is.

• Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes boasted that most reporters were too dumb to know or care they were being misled. He said that much of what passed for independent analysis of Iran in the media was a regurgitation of White House talking points and was a fabrication sold to a lazy, gullible press corps.“We created an echo chamber,” he gloated. “They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.”

• Voters claim they want substance and detailed position papers, but what they really crave are cutesy cat videos, celebrity gossip, top 10 lists, reality TV shows, tabloid tripe, and Trump's next Twitter message.

• Like most of my colleagues, I promise my constituents a lot of stuff I can never deliver. But what the hell? If it makes them happy hearing it, and they’re stupid enough to believe it, shame on them.

• I contradict myself all the time, but few people notice. One minute I rail against excessive spending and ballooning debt. The next minute I'm demanding more spending on education, health care, unemployment benefits, conservation projects, yadda yadda yadda. I'm for having everything, just like my constituents.

We represent the people?

• My staff gives me a last-minute briefing before I go to the floor and tells me whether to vote yea or nay.  I seldom read any bills I vote on. I don’t even know how they’ll be implemented or what they’ll cost.

• I sometimes vote “yes” on a motion and “no” on an amendment so I can claim I’m on either side of an issue. It’s the old shell game: if you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’em

• ObamaCare was a conspiracy not between Obama and the American people against the insurance companies, but rather, between Obama and the insurance companies against the American people.
  

      This has been an honest look at our government in Washington. The people in the political class constantly reveal their contempt for regular citizens. That contempt is the inevitable result of a group of people who have convinced themselves that big government is necessary because we, the little people, can’t control their own lives. These same politicians and bureaucrats then begin to see themselves a genuinely better than everyone else. After all, if they were just like us, then they’d be part of the rabble, and they can’t have that.

Slavery and the Founding Fathers

        M. Richard Maxson

       The current push in America by the Progressive Left is to discredit the founders of this nation by presenting them as racist, white men who because of the flaw of slavery were unfit to design the moral compass of the new country. This theory is being used to discredit everything that they stood for and most especially, the Constitution and the laws of the nation.

      This was most recently exemplified During Democrat Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign visit to Liberty University. Most were shocked when he told the students that our nation was created on racist principles and therefore illegitimate. Students at a Christian-based university do not often hear the founders-as-racists argument. This is the Progressive, anti-American narrative that is featured at most universities, as well as primary and secondary schools in this country. These hate-America teachings are based on the fact

that slavery is a part of our history. What is left untaught is: Slavery was a routine part of human history. At that point in history the Muslims of Africa were the world's largest exporter of slaves and it still exists today! 

      Our Founding Fathers struggled mightily over the issue of slavery. In the north it was winding down but in the south it was vital for their commerce. Without the compromises that were made, the United States of America would not have been formed as it was and at the time that it was. In politics there are times when men must hold their nose and reconcile with the reality of the times.

      

      It was not what the Founding Fathers would have preferred as they so eloquently expressed to their peers.

George Washington said, 

"I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it."  

Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, Patrick Henry and others were highly critical of slavery, describing it as a "disease of ignorance," "an inconsistency not to be excused" and a "lamentable evil."

 George Mason said, "The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."

James Madison, in a speech at the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, declared, "We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man."

Benjamin Rush said: "Domestic slavery is repugnant to the

principles of Christianity. ... It is rebellion against the authority of a common Father."

      In their effort to create a union, the delegates at the Constitutional Convention had to negotiate many contentious, deal-breaking issues. Slavery was chief among them. Southern states made clear that they would not vote to ratify a constitution that abolished slavery or ended the slave trade.

     Northern delegates wanted to end slave trading and did not want slaves counted at all for congressional apportionment. Southern delegates wanted slaves counted as whole people. That would have given the pro-slavery states greater political power in the House of Representatives, tilting the power structure of the nation to the South

      Convention delegate James Wilson offered a compromise whereby each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of determining the number of representatives a state would have in the House. This rule applied only to slaves. Freemen, whether black or white, would be counted as whole people. Another compromise was to set 1808 as the year to abolish the slave trade.

      The Three-Fifths Compromise was not a statement about human worth; it was an to reduce the pro-slavery representation in Congress. By including only three-fifths of the total number of slaves in congressional calculations, Southern states were actually being denied a greater number of representatives in Congress and hence electoral votes for selecting a president.

      Ignorance of our history and Leftist propaganda coupled with an inability to think critically, has provided considerable ammunition for those who want to divide us in pursuit of their Socialist agenda. Their agenda is to undermine the legitimacy of our Constitution in order to gain greater control over our lives.

      Their main targets are the nation's youths. The teaching

establishment, at our public schools and colleges, is being used to undermine American values. Contempt for America and its founding ideals are now being indoctrinated into America's youth from grade school on.* If shown any of the iconic paintings of the Founders such as signing the Declaration of Independence or deliberating at the Constitutional Convention -- rather than seeing great people creating a great nation, most young Americans now only see racist, sexist, rich, slave-owning white males. Allowing these untruths to continue erodes the core principals of our country that can only lead to the end of this great Republic.

*See Congressional record - Communist Goals in the US.

The Disgraceful Legacy of a Questionable President

by

       Zeno Potas

       We, at The American Constitutionalist, are starting a new precedent for this blog. We will be reprinting our fellow Patriot's contributions that we feel are in line with our philosophy. This is a list of Mr.* Obama's significant "accomplishments" while in Office sent to us by one of these concerned Patriots.

• 1. First President to be he was a foreigner.  (clerk admitted in 2015 that the birth certificate was "made up" on orders from his supervisor.*)
• 2. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
• 3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
• 4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
• 5. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
• 6. First President to require all Americans to purchase a commercial product from a third party.
• 7. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences.
• 8. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
• 9. First President to by-pass Congress and the Constitution to implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
• 10. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
• 11. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
• 12. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
• 13. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
• 14. First President to trash the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
• 15. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth. 
• 16. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
• 17. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
• 18. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
• 19. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
• 20. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
• 21. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
• 22. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.(Communists)
• 23. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
• 24. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, to allow the First Lady to take up to 100 persons on private vacations, banning the press, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
• 25. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
• 26. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our allies." 
• 27. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
• 28. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present. (Forgery?)
• 29.First President to violate the War Powers Act.
• 30. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
• 31. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
• 32. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.

*Since this latest fact, buried by the media, has emerged as an obvious attempt at fraud - the legitimacy of his(Mr. Obama) residing in the office as laid out in the Constitution is in great doubt.