Obstructionism Derailed

By

       M. Richard Maxson

"I have a concern that we're in this mad cycle of mutually assured destruction, and if our attitude is we're not going to do anything — even if it's meritorious because it might redound to the benefit of this president — I think that we are only going to increase the level of already very significant cynicism people have about whether the system can work. If that happens, it's actually Democrats who will suffer the most" 

                                            - David Axelrod, Barack Obama's longtime political strategist

       Democrats, enraged by the 2016 election, have sought to obstruct and delay the functioning of the American government by leaving key presidential appointment vacant. For the first time in memory, the minority party in the Senate has exploited procedure to systematically obstruct the president from staffing up his administration and it has gone on for over two years! Top Democrats have admitted that their obstructionism is political at its core. We aren’t talking about limited opposition to a few high-profile nominees or unusual circumstances. It’s mindless, undiscriminating, almost endless obstruction for the sake of obstruction. Even uncontroversial lower-level nominees whom literally no senators oppose are not spared and when they do come up for a vote, as the Democrats usually vote FOR the nominee.

       Here is what is happening: Democrats are requiring that Republicans check all the procedural boxes on most nominees, even those they intend to eventually support. That requires the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, to request a formal “cloture” vote to move forward. An “intervening day” is then required to allow the cloture request to “ripen.” Next is a vote to impose cloture followed by 30 hours of “post-cloture” debate before a final vote. Democrats have refused to shorten the debate time — to “yield back,” in the parlance of the Senate — though in most cases there is little to debate. In the end, many Democrats end up voting for the nominee.

       The Senate, under the Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations combined only had to hold 24 total cloture votes on nominations. That’s the once-rare procedural step that unlocks an up-or-down confirmation vote even though a minority has sought to block it. In President Trump’s first two years the Senate had to hold a stunning 128 cloture votes to advance nominations. The Senate proposal would only reduce the time a minority can keep delaying lower-tier nominations after a majority has invoked cloture.

       This new, across-the-board obstruction is anti-American and unfair to the American people who expect a functioning government. With the exception of the acrimonious Civil War era, the Senate has always deferred overwhelmingly to presidents who need to staff the executive branch. Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, have been extremely hesitant to change Senate rules and traditions, but they finally had enough. So after more than two years of putting up with the Democratic obstruction or resistance or whatever other Leftist catchphrase they want to call it, Senate Republicans finally voted to curtail abuse of Senate prerogatives and restore the principle that most presidential appointees can be confirmed with a simple majority vote. In other words, most people nominated by the president for government positions will now actually get a fair up-or-down vote, just as the framers of the Constitution envisioned.

      In most previous administrations, the Senate has confirmed almost all political and judicial nominees. The Senate’s confirmation power was intended to stop only those who were patently unqualified. Obviously the ones nominated were qualified as the Democrats eventually vote for them so their obstruction is completely political. This is a fundamental and unpatriotic break with the past. It also puts Americans in danger.

      Crucial jobs are still being held empty out of political spite. Here are just a few examples of what the Democrats abhorrent behavior has not done:

• It’s been 354 days and counting for the president’s nominee to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

• There is still no assistant secretary of state for East Asia, despite the critical need to coordinate our foreign policy toward a threatening China.

• Two-hundred eighty-seven days and counting for the under secretary of state for management.

• There is still no confirmed president of the Export-Import Bank, which makes loans crucial to finance big-ticket U.S. exports such as airplanes.

• There is still no undersecretary of state for economic growth, despite massive change in the way we trade with the world.

• It took six months of partisan delays and several railroad accidents before Democrats let the Senate confirm a federal railroad administrator, even though none of them actually voted against the nominee in the end.

• Noncontroversial lower court nominees have languished for months for no discernible reason before they, too, were confirmed unanimously.

      These are just a few examples of the historic obstruction by Senate Democrats but without missing a beat, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tried the old Communist tactic of shifting the blame when the facts are plain to see by stating that it was a “sad day in the Senate’s history,” adding that he was sorry “that my Republican colleagues have gone along with Sen. McConnell’s debasement of the Senate.”

      Americans know hypocrisy when they see it. This is a classic case of "projection," where one takes their own conduct and accuses someone else of engaging in it. This shows something Constitutionalists have long known: For Democrats, forwarding their Leftist agenda and destroying the other party is more important than the prosperity of the nation. We disagree, because we know that partisan bickering is never worth cheating Americans out of policies that help them and their communities. Patriots want a strong prosperous country, not Progressive Socialism at all costs.

Media's Propaganda Exposed For All To See

by

        George Sontag

      Today, there exists only a handful of major mainstream media networks, and they are all controlled by a very small group of corporations and it's mostly the Leftist elite that run them. Think about that: 90-95% of the information we see is given to us by them, and nobody else. But, perhaps the most alarming fact is that mainstream media networks are paid and used by the corporate, political, and intelligence world. They are sold stories, and present fake narratives on various global events to advance their agendas.

      It’s so easy for mainstream media to persuade the minds of the public. By simply making statements, with no sources or evidence cited (for the people to examine for themselves) and having government and ex-government officials back them, the masses consider it as fact. The best example is this whole Russian collusion propaganda campaign, where the US elite are blaming Russia for a rigged election that defeated their hand-picked candidate. 

 

      The Mueller report has destroyed that lie but rather than face the facts, after a momentary pause, the media chose to come back with spite. With egg still dripping from their faces the Democrat supporting media, (Democrats frequently fall back on the media to cover for their failures) had pinned their success in the 2020 election on the President being guilty, took matters further than their Russian propaganda ever did by inventing conspiracy theories about the attorney general, his assistants, and even “their own” Robert Mueller. They also pointed the finger at alternative media outlets who were reporting the facts with unbiased opinions, calling them fake news reporters.           

 

       For years corporate media has come under fire for their work with the world’s elite to provide slanted information that keeps Americans in the dark. They took matters much further this time with their Russian collusion propaganda. They have done this by network anchors offering breathless editorial declarations that are not supported by available facts, by promiscuously sharing absurdities dressed up as important revelations, and by having mainstream media figures use dishonestly imprecise language that propagates conspiracy theories.

        But these have been mere tools to ensure the truth does not come out but rather a narrative that fits the corporate elite’s agenda. In a recent interview former journalist Ted Koppel stated, “I’m terribly concerned that when you talk about the New York Times these days, when you talk about the Washington Post these days, we’re not talking about the New York Times of 50 years ago. We are not talking about the Washington Post of 50 years ago,” he said. “We’re talking about organizations that I believe have, in fact, decided as organizations that Donald J. Trump is bad for the United States.”

       For years we’ve relied on mainstream media, but more people are starting to realize that it cannot be trusted. The global corporate media has become a tool of deception and misinformation, and many still have yet to wake from our slumber and realize that this source of ‘information’ is simply an elite owned tool meant to push an agenda that has little to do with public interest. Propaganda is about presenting facts and information selectively so that the message elicits an emotional response. “We have things appearing on the front page of the New York Times right now that never would have appeared 50 years ago. Analysis, commentary (not news) on the front page,” said Koppel. “So his perception that the establishment press is out to get him…he’s not mistaken in that perception, and he’s not mistaken when so many of the liberal media, for example, described themselves as belonging to the Resistance.” 

 

       The resistance to what – America? - Rule of Law? - The Constitution? - A legitimate election result? Welcome to the world of Western mainstream media, where we are constantly given viewpoints that contradict. This is what the western media does: They create a lie, spread a lie, fail to check the lie and then deny that they were behind the lie. America’s “so-called” enemy, Vladamir Putin, called out Western propaganda, referring to mainstream media, again emphasizing that he would like to have “such a propaganda machine” there in Russia, and that they “have not even global mass media outlets of the likes of CNN, BBC and others.” Russia “simply does not have this kind of capability.”

 No, but the West does.

Yellow Journalism in America

by

       George Sontag

      It is a basic rule in journalism that when an allegation is in serious doubt – or hasn’t been established as fact – you should convey that uncertainty to your reader by using words like “alleged” or “purportedly.” That is journalism, not what Americans experience today. What’s transpired over the past few years is something that’s never happened when it comes to the world of information. Our free press was quietly snatched up by a small group of people. The corporations they run that now control over 90 percent of the information we hear and see in all western media.

      These are the elite, also known as “the Shadow Government,” a combination of the largest corporations working with the “Deep State” to enrich themselves and multiply their profits. They have an agenda. It is world Corporate Socialism and the destruction of a middle class in the western world. Multiple mainstream media journalists and news anchors have come out publicly stating that mainstream media is constantly receiving funds from big corporations and governments, as well as creating fake news stories to serve their interests. The CIA’s “Operation Mockingbird” was designed to infiltrate media and sway public opinion decades ago and it still continues to this day.

      The wheels came off the bus with the election of 2016. Their candidate of choice, against all odds, lost and that could not stand. Someone outside the western sphere of influence must be responsible and it had to be our every day boogieman for the last seven decades – Russia. They were going to prove it and reverse the election, disqualifying President Trump and giving the office, by default, to Hillary Clinton. THEY would get to the truth.

                                        "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." - Vladimir Lenin.

      But the entire U.S. news media abandoned that principle in their avid pursuit of Russia-gate. It is a fact that the entire U.S. news media vote Democrat approximately 85+% of the time. Their hysteria over Russia’s alleged role in the election of Donald Trump has obliterated normal reporting standards leading to a rash of journalistic embarrassments. The media’s deliberate inability to report the truth while repeating excessively, corporate propaganda, has both disgraced the profession, divided the nation, and energized Trump’s supporters. 

 

"With U.S. media outlets overwhelmingly owned by for-profit conglomerates and supported by corporate advertisers, independent journalism is compromised.”

                                                                               - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)

       Here is how one media outlet does NOT report real news They only spread their corporate propaganda. More than several months after a devastating report from the media watch group FAIR, top executives and prime-time anchors at MSNBC still refuse to discuss how the network’s obsession with Russia has thrown minimal journalistic standards out the window. Moreover, in all of 2017, MSNBC only aired one broadcast on the U.S.-backed Saudi airstrikes that have killed thousands of Yemeni civilians. This is a huge story outside the US. An analysis by FAIR has found that the leading liberal cable network did not run a single segment devoted specifically to Yemen in the second half of 2017. And in these latter roughly six months of the year, MSNBC ran nearly 5,000 percent more segments that mentioned Russia than segments that mentioned Yemen.”

      "The U.S. media’s approach to Russia is now virtually 100 percent propaganda,” the late independent journalist Robert Parry wrote at the end of 2017. Parry added that “to even suggest that there is another side to the story makes you a ‘Putin apologist’ or ‘Kremlin stooge.’ Western journalists now apparently see it as their patriotic duty to hide key facts that otherwise would undermine the demonizing of Putin and Russia.”

       The release of the Mueller report should shed some light on the truth but there are those who will not be satisfied with the truth, they want their “own” truth that will justify their actions and goals. If they don’t get it - look for more “investigations.” Things have not changed, in fact, when in comes to mainstream media distorting information and telling lies, they have gotten much worse in recent years. It’s time to wake up. It is highly encouraging that more people are starting to see through these lies. It’s time to turn off your T.V. and do your own research if you are curious about what is happening on our planet. Read news from outside the western sphere of influence. Get ALL the facts you can and use critical analytical thinking to come to your own conclusions. Our country depends on it.

What's Wrong with America?

by

       M. Richard Maxson


       I've picked a random year, that year is 1968, as a basis for our discussion. It was one of the most domestic turbulent time in our modern history. It was a time that America began to stray away from our values, our history, our Constitution. How were times then different than times now?

• In 1968, when Apollo 8 took Americans on their first lunar orbit, 9.7 percent of the babies born in the United States, according to the CDC, were born to unmarried mothers.
• In 2013, the latest year on record, it was 40.6 percent.
   
  

• In 1968, according to the Census Bureau, the median household income for an American householder who had completed four years of high school but not gone to college was $52,025 in constant 2013 dollars.
• In 2013, it was $40,701.
   
  

• In December 1968, 18,410,000 Americans were working in manufacturing, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• By December 2014, only 12,301,000 Americans were working in manufacturing -- a drop of 6,109,000, or 33 percent.
   
  

• In 1968, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the real Gross Domestic Product of the United States grew at 4.9 percent.
• The last time real GDP grew at that annual rate or higher was 1984, under Ronald Reagan, when it hit 7.3 percent. In the first 14 years of the 21st century, annual growth in real GDP has exceeded 3 percent only twice. The last time was a decade ago -- in 2005.(under George Bush. One year later the Democrats took over both houses of Congress.) It hit 3 percent again after the Republicans took control over both houses in 2016.
   
  

• When the federal fiscal year ended on June 30, 1968, the federal debt was approximately $5,704 per household.
• By the end of fiscal 2018, on September 30, the federal debt was equaled about $172,656 per household.
  
  

       Is this a normal evolution of our country? We think not. The United States is on a downward trend. A consortium of think tanks from almost 90 countries released their Economic Freedom of the World Report. The United States is no longer among the top ten countries when it comes to size of government, rule of law and property rights, soundness of the money supply, regulation, and free trade. We now rank twelfth, down from second as recently as 2000. For the record, we now trail Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, Mauritius, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia, Jordan, Chile, and Finland.

       How did this happen? There are a number of reasons and most of them are of our own making. The politicians are more interested in which philosophic camp each of them are in rather than furthering America with compromise and co-operation. We live in an era now where if you don’t take sides, both sides hate you. Among other ignored problems.

• Congress has written laws that are too complex for its own members to read and understand.

• Members of Congress in fact rarely read any legislation before voting on it.
  
  
• Each political party is controlled by a small leadership group that punishes members who defy it.
  
  
• The demands of relatively small minority interests trample the rights of wide majorities.
  
  

       Our foreign policy is controlled by others, a.k.a. "The Deep State." Congress is constantly being duped into passing almost any legislation that they present as essential for national security to keep the war machine going such as:

• Laws that Congress has written about the CIA have delegated congressional power to a small secret committee of members from both houses of Congress and both political parties? What if that committee can authorize secret wars in foreign lands conducted not by the military but by the CIA?
• There are multiple examples going on right now. The President wanted to pull out of Syria - it has yet to happen.

• Intelligence agencies selectively reveal and selectively conceal data to manipulate the decisions of the Congress.
• A recent headline reads - Congress Told Publicly They Don’t Have Security Clearance To See Hillary Clinton’s Emails.
   https://www.collective-evolution.com/2019/02/20/congress-told-publicly-they-dont-have-security-clearance-to-see-hillary-clintons-emails/
  
  
• The intelligence community are so far removed from the voters that they don’t know and don’t care what the voters think.
• They believe that THEY are the ones who should run the country. That THEY are the super-patriots and the rest of us don't have the intelligence or allegiance to forward THEIR agenda to be trusted.

       Samuel Adams once noted, “A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.” Today, it is right before our eyes.

The Democrats Continue to Push Big Lies

by

       Zeno Potas

       The Democratic Party is a mess. It has no effective national leader as the Socialist Communists in the party continue to pull them to the Left. It has no serious agenda. A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll showed that only 37 percent of the American people think that the Democratic Party stands for something. It is not the country nor the American people that they care about Their only agenda is the unseating of the president, to get this human monkey wrench out of their cash machine and to continue on their path of Socialism for the United States. With no overwhelming support, which is required for such a monumental change, they have resorted to “the big lie.”

       What is “the big lie?” That conservatives, and the President in particular, are Fascists and even Nazis*. In a typical comment, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow says the Trump era is reminiscent of “what it was like when Hitler first became chancellor.” Sorry, in the real world this audacious lie is a complete inversion of the truth. Yes, there is a fascist threat in America—but that threat is from the Left and the Democratic Party. The Democratic left has an ideology virtually identical with Fascism and routinely borrows tactics of intimidation and political terror from the Nazi Brownshirts.** To cover up and justify this agenda, Democrats loudly accuse President Trump and other Republicans of being Nazis—an obvious lie, considering the GOP has been fighting the Democrats over slavery, genocide, racism and fascism since the founding of their party.

       In the 21^st century, during President Obama’s eight years in office, the Democrats became primarily a coastal party that caters to out-of-touch wealthy elitists in liberal enclaves like Manhattan and Hollywood, while ignoring the hardworking Americans who are the backbone of our country. The media feasts on these celebrity opinions repeating their musings on a national level presenting them as legitimate societal experts.

      Many citizens get their opinions from these ‘talking heads” in the media and accept them as gospel. Not all Democrats are on board with this Leftist wave but are reluctant to speak up. They know that by doing so, by cutting ranks and being an individual thinker, they risk ending their careers. They have been told as much. “Moderates are not welcome in today’s Democratic party,” says their national chairperson, however, there are still a few who feel more patriotic to our country rather than to their party. Here are a few of their views:

• "We say we’re diverse and tolerant, but we’re really not tolerant of certain groups.” 

                                                     - former Indiana State Rep. Dennie Oxley(D)

• "The Democratic Party is a party of elites.”

                                                   - Michigan State Rep. Donna Lasinski(D)

• "If we continue to have a litmus test of who can be a Democrat and who shouldn’t be, I think the Democrat Party will shrink pretty quickly. I think it’s wrong. I think it’s unproductive and quite frankly, I think it smacks of elitism.”

                                                    - Indiana State Representitive Terry Goodin(D)

• "Democratic leaders don’t understand the needs of rural voters,”

                                                   - former Illinois State Sen. John Sullivan(D)

• "Some in the party, especially from metro areas, are not tolerant of other opinions, especially on guns and abortion. It’s OK, if you’re liberal, to be intolerant.”

                                                     - Minnesota State Rep. Jeanne Poppe(D)

• "The problem with identity politics (the core strategy of the Democratic party) is that it reduces us. We are no longer human beings with individual hopes and dreams. We are commodities. We are groups to be labeled and courted in pandered two. Were told what it's thought we want to hear and we divide ourselves into pockets of groupthink will. We begin to speak only with others in our group, and we begin to believe. That the only valid and true way to think is the way we think.”

                                                       - Pat Sajak

• "I just think the way the Democrats handle things is poor, where they try to pick out little pieces of a population, of well we represent the Hispanics, we represent the LGBT or something. And they’re not speaking to everyone at once. And it’s almost demeaning to say, ‘I’m choosing you because you’re a splinter group or you’re a certain minority group.’ There’s almost a resentment that somehow you’re separated, again, by a politician — ‘You’re my people. I’m in control of you, I represent you,’ instead of thinking that each citizen has a right to be respected as a citizen first, under the laws of the country.”

                                                   - Bill Murray

       Wise words from a few Democratic politicians and celebrities commenting on the huge ideological chasm between being a free human being verses a commodity of the Left. The political circus continues in Washington and endorsed by their media. The problem is, that the circus is being run by the clowns!

*NAZI - National Socialism, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party. A combination of Fascism, Socialism, and Racism in Germany during the 1930’s and 40’s.

** ”Antifa is very close to the Democratic Socialists of America,” states Trevor Loudon, a New Zealand author, speaker, political activist. He compared Antifa with Adolf Hitler’s brownshirts, which likewise used violence to attack and intimidate enemies of Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) party. Both sides, he said, “believe in shutting down free speech, believe in forcing others to accept their will.”

The Original Communist Goals are Succeeding in America

By

       M. Richard Maxson

       I recently met with a childhood friend that I had not had much contact with in the last thirty plus years. He always brought up his state’s politics every time we spoke so since he was moving back to my state I assumed we could discuss the world together into our semi-retirement. Sadly, he is from a “blue” state and his intellect has been completely compromised by the talking heads on sites such as CNN and MSNBC. He admitted he was closed minded and only voted the party line. I now call him Comrade when we meet because the Democratic party line is also the Communist party line. How do I know?

      I wrote my first political paper in early 1963, at the age of ten, as a school assignment. I took two sets of facts and compared them for their obvious similarities. I was kept after class and physically abused as I was told how “wrong” I was. How can two sets of “facts” be wrong? I had taken the Democratic platform from the previous election and compared it to a section of the Congressional record noting the chilling similarities. It has been over fifty-five years and you can see for yourselves that nightmare, which I wrote about so long ago, is coming true.

      You see, on Jan. 10, 1963, Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr. of Florida read a list of 45 Communist goals into the Congressional Record. Below are the pertinent items to this discussion.

#11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.

 

[Note: There are still American intellectuals, and elected members of Congress, who want an eventual one world government and who view the U.N., founded by Communists such as Alger Hiss, the first secretary-general, as the instrument to bring this about. One world government was also the dream of Adolf Hitler. Mao Tse-Tung and Joseph Stalin. World government was also the dream of Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 hijackers.]

#15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S.

[Note: In his book, "Reagan’s War," Peter Schweizer demonstrates the astonishing degree to which Communists and Communist sympathizers have penetrated the Democratic Party. Today, they do not hide this fact running openly as Democrats - Socialists. Recently the Communist Party USA boasted of working “...with and through” the Democratic party.]

#16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

[Note: The victim strategy goes back to the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union by Fabian Socialists Roger Baldwin and John Dewey and Communists William Z. Foster and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn among others.]

#17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

[Note: American history is almost non-existent in public education today. Need we say more?]

#20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

#21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.

[Note: A gradual takeover of the "means of communication" and then using those vehicles to debauch the culture, indoctrinate the masses, and weaken the will of the individual to resist.]

#22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. 

 

[Note: An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings," substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.]

#23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. " Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

#24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

#25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.

#26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy."

[Note: Today those few who still have the courage to advocate public morality are denounced and viciously attacked. Most Americans are entirely unwitting regarding the motives behind this agenda.]

#28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state"

#29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

#30. Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

[Note:The Left refers to the Founders as “old ignorant white men - slave owners]

#31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture." 

 

[Note: Obliterating the American past, with its antecedents in principles of freedom, liberty and private ownership is a major goal of the Socialist Communists then and now.]

#32. Support any Socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

#40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

[Note: Done! The sovereign family is the single most powerful obstacle to authoritarian control.]

#45. Repeal the Connally Reservation so the U.S. cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.

      These Communist goals for overthrowing the United States from within are bombarding American minds every minute of every day across the spectrum….and many have fallen under the spell of this discredited, never successful political system. It is refereed to in many ways as Communism, Socialism, Democratic Socialism, Progressivism, etc.

They are all un-American and a danger to the Republic. I have been writing about this for many decades. I wish I was wrong but the trend towards some form of Socialist Communism that I predicted in the 1970’s is unfolding right before our eyes. My only hope is for the survival of this great Republic as it was meant to be, not what it is being warped into - faux Socialism, wrapped up in red, white, and blue.

 

The Constitution Protects the Nation Against Democracy

By

       M. Richard Maxson

      What a treasure our Constitution has been and how easy it is to take for granted. In a world facing accelerating change and division, it’s a gift to have an anchor that keeps our freedoms secure. Unfortunately, our government today is not the constitutionally restrained protector of personal freedoms the Framers left us. It has morphed into a quasi-Socialist entity that the majority of the elite uses to forward democracy, something the Founding Fathers never wanted. Our Founders saw democracy as a variant of tyranny.

      The Framers believed in the presumption of liberty, which declares that we are free to make personal choices, and the government cannot interfere with our liberties unless we violate the rights of others. The ideal way to organize human conduct is to create a system that maximizes personal liberty for all. They did this in a number of ways, including establishing a system of federalism, which divided powers between the federal and state governments. They also specifically enumerated powers granted to the federal Congress and added the Bill of Rights, which expressly restricted Congress' encroachment on a panoply of individual liberties and also included the ninth and 10th amendments, which reserve powers to the states and the people.

      Yes, America’s Founders abhorred the idea of democracy, which is why they fashioned a constitutional republic with separation of powers between the states and the central government and within the national government. Plus, national borders and meaningful citizenship. In Federalist 10, James Madison warned of the dangers of a pure democracy without republican safeguards: “[S]uch democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found 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.”

      Other Framers were just as adamant. At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Edmund Randolph said, "...that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy." John Adams said, "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." Alexander Hamilton said, "We are now forming a Republican form of government. Real Liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of dictatorship." It is not a co-incidence that the word democracy appears in none of our founding documents.

      The Founders recognized that we need some form of government, but because the essence of government is force, and force is evil, government should be as small as possible. The Founders intended for us to have a limited republican form of government where human rights precede government and there is rule of law. Citizens, as well as government officials, are accountable to the same laws. Government intervenes in civil society only to protect its citizens against force and fraud, but does not intervene in the cases of peaceable, voluntary exchange. By contrast, in a democracy, the majority rules either directly or through its elected representatives. The law is whatever the government deems it to be at this time. Rights may be granted or taken away.

      In the 21^st century the Founders could have never envisioned Americans warping the meaning of the document in order to promote Democratic Socialism as the country’s future. The continuous twisting of the constitution to justify their Leftist agenda is nothing short of disgusting to true Patriots. As the nation continues the drift towards Democratic Socialism all Patriots must ask themselves – Are we too late?