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For those of you who are confused. The United States was intended to be a constitutional republic. That is what it says in the Constitution. However, the progressives that followed passed the 12th and the 17th amendment FUNDAMENTALLY changed the Republic into a Democracy.
1 posted on 10/24/2018 8:29:00 PM PDT by vannrox
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>> FUNDAMENTALLY

Effectively?


2 posted on 10/24/2018 8:32:10 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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3 posted on 10/24/2018 8:35:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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4 posted on 10/24/2018 8:35:40 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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The poor and the underclass are growing.

Maybe that's what happens when criminal invaders with no skills are let into the country.

5 posted on 10/24/2018 8:36:01 PM PDT by NutsOnYew
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Don’t forget the Federal Reserve. Printed, fiat money at manipulated interest rates funds the whole Fed.gov, progressive, social-engineering structure.

The foundation of freedom is a monetary system that government, politicians and elites can not control.


6 posted on 10/24/2018 8:38:57 PM PDT by PGR88
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Did not read it, I have no care to. I used to donate to the Rutherford Institute heavily. Suddenly, John went off the deep end with his “violent campaign” against everything. No more, John has lost his way.


7 posted on 10/24/2018 8:39:20 PM PDT by Fungi
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Memo To John W. Whitehead:

Click the Pic

9 posted on 10/24/2018 8:43:30 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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We were in a Dick-tatorship for 8 years. And I’ll lay you even money this asshole was happy as a pig in slop!


10 posted on 10/24/2018 8:45:59 PM PDT by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputee)
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later


11 posted on 10/24/2018 8:47:38 PM PDT by gaijin
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Nonsense!

The constitution still prohibits democratic shenanigans.

Many SCOTUS decisions need to be revisited due to failure to uphold constitutional principles.
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13 posted on 10/24/2018 8:50:50 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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Yeah. Without that pesky 17th Amendment, our state legislators would get far richer on the proceeds from picking senators.


14 posted on 10/24/2018 8:51:29 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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What would it cost George Soros and several other billionaires to have state legislators choose their senators of choice?


15 posted on 10/24/2018 8:52:31 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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Hey Whitehead - you are an intellectual midget and can KMA.


16 posted on 10/24/2018 8:57:48 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar
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Lunatic ramblings of a 3rd year sociology major.


17 posted on 10/24/2018 9:00:14 PM PDT by Chengdu54
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Haven’t read much from Whitehead for a few years, but in regards to the article, I agree with him and President Trump that the *investors and sponsors* behind the big media companies have too much control over too many morons satisfied with being controlled.


18 posted on 10/24/2018 9:02:07 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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That person needs to step away from the keyboard.

He spends a good deal of time making movie analogies, then talks at length about how people are stupid and controlled by their TV watching.

I like to make movie analogies, but only sparingly when talking about real issues. This person is delusional.


19 posted on 10/24/2018 9:10:01 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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“A citizenry that does not think for themselves, obeys without question, is submissive, does not challenge authority, does not think outside the box, and is content to sit back and be entertained is a citizenry that can be easily controlled.”

Ridiculous article.

When or where has there ever existed a “citizenry” that “thought for itself”, whatever that means?

He rails against law and order without realizing that whenever a group of people come together to form a society, rules for living somewhat peacefully together (law and order) are an absolute necessity.

What he’s unwittingly advocating is anarchy. Good luck with that.


22 posted on 10/24/2018 9:31:22 PM PDT by aquila48
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In other words, we are being ruled by an oligarchy disguised as a democracy,

But what happens when the oligarchy picks one person for the Democrats (despite some pro wrestling style competition for the nomination) but completely chokes on their choice for the Republicans (please applaud)?

24 posted on 10/24/2018 9:53:28 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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John Wayne Whitehead, Constitutional lawyer, prolific author. One of my favorites, although I haven't read him lately. But back in the day, I read and annotated "The Second American Revolution," "The Stealing of America," and "The End of Man," plus other separate articles. Supported the Rutherford Institute, when I could.

Thanks for posting this one, FRiend!

Thinking back, my memory was refreshed when I recalled having a videotape IIRC made with Frankie Schaeffer. It the end, what put a distance between me and Whitehead's theological views was that he was greatly influenced by R. J. Rushdoony, who is/(was?) of the Reformed ilk, with the idea that God's plan for history was that Christians would multiply and reconstruct a global society fit for the returning Jesus Christ to step in and start running His Earthly Kingdon built by His (millennia)(Presbyterian/Dutch Reformed/Lutheran) Church of disciple-priests.

That terminated any association that I might have withbthese amillennia Reconstructionists, since I am thoroughly and Scripturally convinced of a coming premillennial Rapture, seven years of Christless misery on earth, followed by a thousand-year reign of Jesus Christ and His Kingdom, before the final tally is executed, and humans who have died without forgiveness set on fire for eternity.

So be warned, when you read Whitehead, be sure that behind his writing is the indercurrent that he believes Christians are going to save the world through eliminating resistance to Christian morality.

If you choose to believe that is true prophecy, well then, that's up to you. Current continual defining of deviancy downward does not seem to indicate that Rushdoony, Whitehead, and generally Reformed theology is way out of whack.

Reference link (written April 2009):

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/oldspeak/creating_a_political_firestorm_that_is_still_burning_an_interview_with_fran

25 posted on 10/24/2018 9:53:37 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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it was certainly a dictatorship under the Illegal Immigrant in Chief for 8 years.

it is not supposed to be a democracy. Indeed, our country’s Founders worked very hard to prevent that from ever happening to America

we are supposed to be a constitutional republic.
But the constitution has largely been thrown in the trash.
and, as Benjamin Franklin famously said, our founders gave us a republic.. IF we could hang onto it.

it was a long battle but the “election” of BO or whatever his real name was,.... put the nails in our republic’s coffin


26 posted on 10/24/2018 9:57:00 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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