Posted on 09/30/2016 9:10:55 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.” –Thomas Jefferson
What is wrong with us, America? The answer to that question is, “I am.” We are, each of us, what’s wrong with America.
As citizens of the United States we are responsible for what takes place in our country and each of us has an opportunity to affect how our country is governed. The problem is that we are not exercising our power to control instituted government. The government and the elected officials who work in centralized government are permitted only to exercise the powers granted them in the Constitution. In short, centralized government has the authority that we, as citizens, award it.
The Constitution of the United States specifically addresses the delegation and separation of powers. It is our civic duty as citizens to make certain that the boundaries specified in the Constitution are not blurred or violated. Our individual state constitutions agree, many stating that “all power is inherent in the people.” It is our duty as citizens to shoulder the responsibility our founding fathers entrusted to us by making certain our elected officials do not abuse the limited powers they have been granted.
If all you do is vote, you are exercising your control of instituted government on just one day each year. Centralized government is in control the other 364 days. During the 2014 mid-term election only 36.3% of America's registered voters participated - the worst turnout in 72 years. At that rate of citizen participation...
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The problem with us? Its simple.
FAR too much government, grown over decades now by our completely unbacked, fiat currency and massive Federal Reserve debt, giving politicians and their cronies no need for any restraint.
Massive government means leftist ideologues have the apparatus and money to force their political and social engineering schemes onto the country for “fundamental transformation.”
And that process of forced “transformation” is what you are feeling now....
50 years of welfare.
Before that, we lost control of the media, education, and culture to the left, and they’ve had 2 or more generations to create a class of voters that doesn’t know their history, doesn’t care about traditional values, and cannot discriminate between truth and fiction.
That gets us to the situation of far too much goverment and the transformation to a socialist empire run by a ruling class of crony capitalists and their pals in both parties.
plus a massive rise in the bureaucratic layers of government. entrenched well now.
The left has worked effectively to block that path since John Dewey's time. The left is fueled by ignorance. It must maintain it at all costs. Their policies are fraudulent. Lies are necessary to advance them. Ignorance is essential to the success of the lies.
We tolerate PC and the tyranny of the minority.
I think you're reversing cause and effect. Culture has been assaulted because we are growing a huge activist government, full of leftist ideologues, to replace it.
Again, all supported by the fake US Dollar and massive debt. Progressives could not really push their schemes until they had the Federal Reserve in place.
Stoopid, self centered, self indulgent..........where should I stop? Pretty much covers a lot of the population that knows more about caitlyn jenner and globull discombobulation than actual issues.
This country has become “feminized” to the extent that every decision made these days is emotional instead of anything near logical. Ask yourself why everything we do today ahs to be “fair” to the level of Men in girls locker rooms and bathrooms. BLM built on total fabrications is now a movement and BOB (Black on Black) is ignored.
Emotion instead of logic is the basis for “Political Correctness”. Can’t say or do anything that might offend the sensibilities of the anyone. Can’t even think of anything that might offend anyone, “micro aggression”.
This has been going on for years and it is only now become so evident that we all think is normal and not an aberration.
Really sad this country going down the drain.
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
Translated into English from an article appearing in the Czech Republic as published in the Prager Zeitung of 28 April 2010
Lets see:
George Herbert Walker Bush;
William Jefferson and Hillary Rotten Clinton;
George W. Bush;
Barack Obama;
Gutless House and Senate (our fault for re electing them without them doing their jobs we pay them to do);
Way to much Government;
Poor schools give poor uneducated citizens;
And others that are far to offensive to list...
How do we correct this:
Vote Trump/Pence, do not re elect any House or Senate running for re election...
It’s because we sit there and take it while a cartel of bankers, lawyers, and politicians rob us blind.
Who is this we you speak of? It is not I...I never voted for onerous taxation or regulation, never supported welfare, either corporate or personal, don't agree with medicare, Medicaid, social security, the department of transportation, energy, commerce, the ACLU, the Sierra Club, Doctors Without Borders, a leftist Supreme Court, 'transgender' activists, feminism, the American Bar Association, Black Lives Matter, La Raza, muslim terror, the Service Employees International Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center, abortion activism, etc. etc.
In fact, I fought tooth and nail against all these things, campaigned and voted for conservatives only, spoke up when leftist ideals were celebrated around me, homeschooled my children, worked for a living and generally acted like a conservative my whole life. And what has it got me?
Simple - enough citizens now believe that God is dead (or is otherwise known as ‘Gaia’) - and morality is whatever I decide it is.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
What’s wrong?
Too many living progressives
What’s wrong?
Too many living progressives
What’s wrong?
Too many living progressives
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