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

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       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.

America is on the decline - The Dirty Dozen

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       George Sontag

      How has the last century of creeping Democratic Socialism (a.k.a. Progressivism) done in the United States? - A report card.

1. Median wealth per adult

       Rank of U.S.: - 27th out of 27 high-income countries

2. Education and skills

       Rank of U.S.: - 16th out of 23 countries

The US ranked near the bottom in a skills. The US placed 16th in adult literacy, 21st in adult numeracy out of 23, and 14th in problem-solving.

3. Internet speed and access

       Rank of U.S.: - 16th out of 34 countries

The cost of internet is among the highest ($0.04 per megabit per second in Japan, for example, versus $0.53 in the US).

4. Health

       Rank of U.S.: - 33rd out of 145 countries

When it comes to its citizens’ health, in countries that are home to at least one million people, the US ranks below many other wealthy countries.

5. People living below the poverty line

       Rank of U.S.: - 36th out of 162 countries, behind Morocco and Albania

Officially, 14.5% of Americans are impoverished — 45.3 million people–according to the latest US Census data.

6. Children in poverty

       Rank of U.S.: 34th out of 35 countries surveyed

When UNICEF relative poverty – relative to the average in each society—the US ranked at the bottom, above only Romania, even as Americans are, on average, six times richer than Romanians.

7. Income inequality

       Rank of U.S.: - Fourth highest inequality in the world.

The most severe inequality can be found in Chile, Mexico, Turkey — and the US.

8. Prison population

       Rank of U.S.: - First out of 224 countries

More than 2.2 million Americans are in jail. Only China comes close with about 1.66 million.

9. Life satisfaction

       Rank of U.S.: 17th out of 36 countries

10. Corruption

       Rank of U.S.: 17th out of 175 countries.

Special interest groups are gradually transforming the United States into an oligarchy,

11. Stability

       Rank of U.S.: - 20th out of 178 countries.

The Fragile States Index considers factors such as inequality, corruption, and factionalism. The US lags behind Portugal, Slovenia and Iceland.

12. Social progress index

       Rank of U.S.: - 16th out of 133 countries

A broad measure of social well-being, the index comprises 52 economic indicators such as access to clean water and air, access to advanced education, access to basic knowledge, and safety.

      The Progressive movement, which started around the turn of the 20th century, has thwarted  the exceptional contributions to humankind that our Constitutional values have generated. With the tendencies of the past few years, we can only expect these figures to worsen.

The Real Party of the Rich in Today's America

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       M. Richard Maxson

      Fifty years ago, Republicans had a big financial advantage, and few rich people backed liberals. In the 21st century this is not the case. Democrats have become the party of the rich.  Most of today’s rich love Barack Obama—so much so that Washington D.C. area airports ran out of space to handle all of the private jets flying in the well-heeled for both of his inaugurals and high cost parties. Democrats now control the majority of the nation's wealthiest congressional jurisdictions. More than half of the wealthiest households are concentrated in the 18 states where Democrats control both Senate seats. This new political demography holds true in the House of Representatives, where the leadership of each party hails from different worlds. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, represents one of America's wealthiest regions. Her San Francisco district has more than 43,700 high-end households. So please, enough of this about Democrats being the party of the little guy.

     In 2012, Barack Obama carried eight of America's 10 wealthiest counties.  He carried the majority of the richer rich, those making $200,000 or more per

year.  These rich Democrats level of wealth is different, and how they earn it is different. They live in rich social enclaves. They live on the two coasts, and have a different value system.  They are not religious.  They are not family oriented and they are determined to "change" America. The most famous example would be in the entertainment industry, where star-studded events have become a significant part of Democratic fund raising culture.  These “elite” group of liberal “millionaires and billionaires” is pumping money into an elaborate network of groups to influence the country's policies, even using “shady” donations from foreign companies to fund their efforts.

      There is argument over the definition of what is rich. Mainstream media supports Democrat propaganda by defining rich as households that earn more than $75,000.  In today's world, seventy-five thousand for a two-income household is not rich. The unbiased Pew Report states that the median wealth for the middle class was $96,500.  A review of the 20 richest Americas found that 60 percent affiliate with the Democratic Party…Among the richest families, the Democratic advantage rises even higher, to 75 percent. 

      This falsehood of fighting against those "rich Republicans"continues to be pushed as a main driving force of the Democrats and the mostly uneducated people in this country consider it as truth. The real truth is that it is the education levels that prove that Republicans are the party of America’s middle and working class, while Democrats are the party of the extremes.  People who vote Democrat haven’t graduated from high school or else tend to have post-graduate degrees. The majority of high school graduates, people with some college, and people with a college degree are Republican.  Education largely determines class in this country. The educated can plainly see the "big lie" but judging by the last few decades election results, many cannot. 

       If the media would ever check Democrat talking points, the evidence that Democrats are the party of the rich is easy to find. There are now more Democratic millionaires in Congress than Republican ones. Of 534 current members of Congress, at least 268 were millionaires, according the Center for Responsive Politics’ review of financial disclosure reports filed last year. The Democratic party is that the party is increasingly ruled by the “new oligarchs.” In his review of The New Class Conflict, by Joel Kotkin, a lifelong Democrat, George Will explains that there is a “growing alliance between the ultra-wealthy and the instruments of state power. The bigger the government, the easier it is for the increased power to be abused by moneyed interests. Growing the government doesn’t change that fact; it only changes the people who become rich. In Hollywood and high tech, there is a sudden jump into wealth. The very richest of these are Democrats.

       Yes, but haven’t many of the leading plutocrats, such as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, embraced higher income taxes? Yes, they have, but one important fact has escaped notice: higher income tax rates will not touch the bulk of the fortunes of today’s plutocrats, for the simple reason that the great bulk of the accumulated wealth of Gates, Buffett, Silicon Valley and Wall Street consists of appreciated asset values—not ordinary income. Few seem to be aware that most of this wealth has never been taxed, and in the case of Buffett and Gates, who are taking advantage of the charitable foundation laws, will never be taxed. Rich Leftists are not stupid, but maybe we Americans still are.

      

The First Amendment and The Rise Censorship in America

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       George Sontag

 The left's assault on the First Amendment---from free speech to religious liberty---is total. Nothing is exempt from the tyrants of tolerance.”

                           - Gary Bauer - End of Day report (3/11/16)

      Four in 10 young Americans have no idea what America is. That's the conclusion of a new Pew Research poll showing that 40 percent of Americans aged 18-34 say that the government should be able to prevent people from making "statements that are offensive to minority groups." In a democracy, citizens must be able to criticize their leaders. It's a reason America's founders put free speech in the Bill of Rights.

      The Left uses “rights” agendas to wrap itself in the mantle of righteousness and seize the supposed moral high ground, tactically putting us on the defense in the process. They encourage censorship in the name of "tolerance,"but they couldn’t care less about the actual issue except in its ability to facilitate their path to power. They do this to force people to accept what they don’t agree with. It's a double standard on the part of liberals when it comes to this issue. “Free speech for me, but not for thee.”

      Perhaps the biggest censorship of all by liberals

comes in the form of political correctness which is a style of politics in which the more radical members of the left attempt to regulate political discourse by defining opposing views as bigoted and illegitimate.” It is censorship before the fact. Censorship in speech not even yet given. Censorship of perceived thoughts. 

      Their attempts to destroy the first amendment can be seen on the college campuses today as......... 

• Leftists shout down unpopular ideas or simply forbid nonconforming views from being heard there in the first place. 
• Declared academic freedom an “outdated concept." 
• Declaring that freedom is oppressive and that they should not be expected to tolerate ideas that they do not share. 
• They have violently assaulted students studying in libraries and assaulted student journalists with whom they disagree. 
• They are demanding mandatory ideological indoctrination sessions for nonconforming students. 
• They have staged dozens of phony hate crimes and sexual assaults as a pretext for persecuting unpopular organizations and people....
• …...and the list goes on.

      For the past several decades, government public schools and nearly all colleges have touted socialism’s principles of redistribution, racialism and class envy while declining to make the connection between socialism and tyranny, which the lost lives of hundreds of thousands of souls in the twentieth century attest to. It’s no wonder that so many young people have a rosy view of Socialism when it’s depicted as the epitome of compassion and “fairness” instead of for the passive slavery which it imposes.

      If the First Amendment can be challenged this way; if a certain group’s “rights” can trump the U.S. Constitution, and if the Supreme Court can actually issue an edict making it so, then the entire Constitution has become meaningless. This is the Left’s true agenda and it always has been. The goal for them has always been destroying the country's identity in order to impose Democratic Socialism -- with them in charge, of course. In order to do that they have to strip America of its culture, its traditions, and most importantly, the most important law of the land, the U.S. Constitution.

A Search for the Truth Concerning Islam

As told to:

       George Sontag*

       I only knew as much about Islam as the average American with a reasonably good education—which is to say, not much more than I had been told in the media. I had no trouble believing what our government was saying: that we should read nothing into the fact that all the men in terrorist attacks were Muslims and that their actions were not representative of any religion or belief system; and that to the extent they were explaining their atrocities by citing Islamic scripture, they were twisting and perverting one of the world’s great religions, a religion that encourages peace.

       This seems like a complete contradiction yet we are being bombarded with this narrative constantly. I wanted to find out the truth. Not only what is really happening but also why it happens. Being in law enforcement I had access to many of these jihadists. What I have found is that their claims of religion of peace are false.

       I was able to talk to an Imam who is the leader of the terror cell. Our government was portraying him as a ruthless killer who was lying about Islam by preaching that it summoned Muslims to jihad or holy war. That was not the case. He turned out to be a globally renowned scholar, a doctor of Islamic jurisprudence who graduated from a Cairo University.  His area of academic expertise was sharia—Islamic law. There is no doubt that he was the unquestioned leader of the terror cell but was this because there was more to his interpretation of Islamic doctrine than our government was telling?

       As he was an expert I had no chance in debating what I knew of Islamic law with him but I did think that if what we were saying as a government was true—that he was perverting or radicalizing Islam—then there should be obvious contradictions that I could use to trip him up. What I found was alarming: whenever he quoted the Koran or other sources of Islamic scripture, he quoted them accurately. When he said the scriptures command that Muslims strike terror into the hearts of lslam’s enemies, the scriptures backed him up. When he said Allah enjoined all Muslims to wage jihad until Islamic law was established throughout the world, his scriptures backed him up. When he said Islam directed Muslims not to take Jews and Christians as their friends, his scriptures backed him up. 

       One could counter that there are other ways of construing the scriptures, however, is that what you’d be arguing is an interpretation, not the text. It is the jihadists who seem to be making sense because they have the words of scripture on their side. The fact is that the summons to jihad was rooted in a coherent interpretation of Islamic doctrine. He was not perverting Islam- he was, if anything, shining a light on it. 

       I came to the conclusion that Islam is not a religion of peace. There are ways of interpreting Islam that could make it something other than a call to war but even these do not make it a call to peace. Verses such as “Fight those who believe not in Allah,” and “Fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war,” are not peaceful injunctions, no matter how one rationalizes.

       Moderate, peaceful American-Muslims may not be terrorists yet when questions about Islamic doctrine are discussed such as, —“What does jihad mean?” “What is sharia?” “How might sharia apply to a certain situation?”— these moderate, peaceful Muslims explained that they were not competent to say. In other words, for the answers, you’d have to turn to Islamic scholars like the Imam. In the minds of these moderate, peaceful Muslims, they were claiming to be too ignorant to be rendering authoritative opinions on the meaning of the core tenets of their own, so-called, religion. 

 

       It is not as if Western civilization had no experience dealing with Islamic supremacism—what today we call “Islamist” ideology, the belief that sharia must govern all societies. What about Islamic law? Sharia rejects freedom of speech as much as freedom of religion. It rejects the idea of equal rights between men and women as much as between Muslim and non—Muslim. It makes no separation between spiritual life and civil society. It is a comprehensive framework for human life, dictating matters of government, economy, and combat, along with personal behavior such as contact between the sexes and personal hygiene. Sharia aims to rule both believers and non-believers, and it affirmatively sanctions jihad in order to do so. 

       A report to the government in 1955 by Robert Jackson, FDR’s attorney general, justice of the Supreme Court, and chief prosecutor of the war crimes trials at Nuremberg. Here is what he concluded: 

"The law of the Middle East is the antithesis of our Constitution and Western law. The problem was not the people, he concluded. It was the doctrine". 

      Sixty years later the world still calls this cult, a religion, and it is the mainstream interpretation in many parts of the world. When videos of beheading or other atrocities surface, American and European politicians can't get to microphones fast enough to insist that these had nothing to do with Islam. Yet when the government of Saudi Arabia beheaded people for various violations of sharia—the law that governs Saudi Arabia, there is silence. It is absurd to claim—as President Obama did during his recent visit to a mosque in Baltimore—that it is not a mainstream interpretation. Even if only ten percent of all Muslims believe this it means there are 2 million Islamic terrorists world-wide. Why is it that they can’t say two plus two equals four when Islam is involved?

       The reason is simple: being unwilling to deal with the true reality of Islam, our leaders have constructed an Islam of their very own. Are we not all tired of hearing the robotically repeating of the phrase, “Islam is a religion of peace,” every time radical Muslims murder someone because of their religion. We know these radicals are murdering people because of their religion since they go out of their way to tell us this. This triumph of willful blindness and political correctness over common sense and obvious truth is a dangerous course we are taking in the west.. We have an obligation to our national security and our children's future to understand our enemies for what they truly are - and are not.

* Many thanks to the insights of Andrew McCarthy