Our Divided Country

I understand that the divide in this country is getting wider. It has almost gotten to the point of no return. Why, is the big question. Why are we so divided? Why can we not repair the damage done? Why can we not discuss our differences instead of trying to silence the opposite view? Why is one side ignoring the Constitution, or interpreting it to mean what they want? Why are our morals and values being destroyed? Why? Why? Why?

It is painful for me to watch this great country devolve into a quagmire of deceit, deception, intolerance, and violence. Not since the Civil War has the country been so divided as to have brother against brother, father against son, mother against daughter, and friend against friend. Our Congress is against the President in everything he does or tries to do. They will not give him credit for any of his accomplishments such as: the lowest unemployment rate in recent history, highest employment rate for women and minorities in history, the largest tax cut in history, trade deals that are great for America, getting rid of the ISIS leader and giving the credit to the military that did the work, putting America first in all things, exposing the corruption and the greed of politicians and the Deep State, etc.

If you read the Federalist Papers, the Federalist Farmer letters, and the Constitution you will see that what we have for a government now is not what the Founding Fathers envisioned. Point in fact, it is exactly what they feared the most. We have a Congress that is so partisan that the impeachment proceedings are one-sided against the President. The Democrats have all the power; the Intelligence Committee is leading the inquiry instead of the Judiciary Committee; the Chairman of the Committee has final say in who is interviewed, what the witnesses can be asked, who can be present, and what can be brought forth as evidence; the accuser is being kept secret and not allowed to be interviewed in person; only selective information is being leaked to the press; worst of all, the American people are being kept in the dark. The Founders did not want to include impeachment into the Constitution for this very reason.

We have Congressmen/women that have served for thirty, forty, even fifty years. This is, again, not what the Founders envisioned. They envisioned a Congress that would serve for a term or two then return to the real world, their real life, their real job. Why? Because our representatives needed to keep in touch with their constituents. To realize the ramifications of their legislation; to keep Congress from becoming too powerful. We, the People, and Congress determined that a President could serve only two terms so as not to become too powerful, to become a monarch. Isn’t it time that the real power in Washington, in our government, be subjected to the same limitation? The President can do nothing permanent without the consent of Congress. Congress can overrule the President, even if he vetoes legislation, simply by casting another vote. As has been proven in the last three years, Congress can overrule the President by using a Circuit Court that is sympathetic to their cause. This is too much power for any group of people.

The Founders did not want a large government that could rule over the country. They wanted a limited centralized government that had limited power over the people. The States had the power over their citizens, not the Federal Government. Today, we have hundreds of thousands of federal employees in hundreds of agencies, offices, and committees that can ‘legislate’ without being elected. This is the Deep State; those that have not been elected yet have the power to control the citizen’s actions. Who are these people? They are employees of the EPA, DHS, DNR, Commerce Commission, FMCSA, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, etc. These people are not elected to any office but have the authority and power to enact laws that we, the People, are subject to regardless of whether we agree or not.

What are some of these laws? We now must ask permission to hunt or fish and pay for that right. We must ask permission to build a house and pay a fee to do so. We are required to secure our children in car seats up to a certain age. We are limited in our speed on the roads. We must watch what we say (political correctness is of utmost importance – we cannot, under any circumstances, offend anyone). It doesn’t matter what action it is; it is either 1) regulated, 2) taxed, or 3) illegal. This is 95% due to the Deep State and its ability to enact law without debate, consent, or vote by elected representatives.

What does all this have to do with the country being so divided? There are two ideologies at work in the United States; one being Constitutional originalists that believe the Constitution is set in stone and the law of the land. These conservatives also believe in a free market, capitalist economy and limiting government control. The other side believes that the Constitution is a living document meant to be interpreted with every passing fancy, a large, controlling government that the people depend upon, and a Socialist economy that redistributes wealth from those that have, to those that have-not.

The United States grew to be the world’s wealthiest nation by people that were innovators, believers, doers. If Edison hadn’t believed he could make money with his inventions, we probably wouldn’t have the electric light bulb. If Bell hadn’t seen that there would be profit made, we wouldn’t have had the telephone. Ford wouldn’t have created the assembly line for automobile manufacturing. We wouldn’t have gone to the moon. Capitalism and the free market are what encourages innovation. In a little over a hundred and twenty-five years, this country grew to the nation that the world looked to for everything. We had the strongest military, the strongest economy, the greatest inventors, and in a lot of ways, the greatest thinkers. All this is due to our freedoms, our rights as citizens, our values of compensation for effort and work. In short, because we were a capitalist society with little government regulation or control over the people.

There has never been a successful, strong nation that was socialist or communist. Socialism does not encourage innovation or even participation. When the government gets its hands into anything bureaucracy strangles creativity to the point of creativity, innovation, and invention being almost non-existent. Almost. There will always be government-sponsored innovation, but it is shadowed, by far, by the innovations of a free society. Yes, the Russians were the first to put a ship into space, but it was the Americans that were first to put a man into space and to land on the moon. True, the Chinese have developed some pretty good tech, but it doesn’t match the quality of that produced by the United States.

The far-left would have us become a socialist state with the government controlling our healthcare, all our schools, how our homes are built, how much money we can make and where that money would go, what kind of energy we use, car we drive, what we eat, etc. The far-left wants to regulate what companies can charge for their products, especially in the pharmaceutical industry. True, healthcare is expensive and needs to be more consumer-friendly. How do you do that? Less regulation and more free market. Competition is what brings about lower costs and better service. I don’t mean that drug companies, hospitals, clinics, doctors and nurses shouldn’t be licensed and certified as competent. I’m saying that if they weren’t so regulated by policy that there would be more competition in the field and that would lower costs. It isn’t like the FDA doesn’t allow harmful drugs to be distributed to the public. There are hundreds of drugs that have side effects worse than the disease they treat.

The radical left would like to do away with fossil fuels. Oil and gas are what drives the world. Without using petroleum products how would consumer goods be shipped? I really don’t think a solar-powered semi-truck would get the job done as efficiently as a diesel-powered one. With the world being as mobile as it is, how would people travel? Do we go back to sailing across the oceans in ships such as the Mayflower? Do we return to the days of the steam engine train to travel across the nation? Do we go back to the horse and buggy and stagecoach? If the radical left gets their way we will have to; they want to do away with cars, planes, trucks, cruise liners, cargo ships, and trucks.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would like to retrofit all existing buildings, including homes, in the nation to make them totally green with no carbon footprint. Not only would that be fiscally impossible, what is she planning on heating and cooling those buildings with? I don’t think those high rises in New York City have enough roof space for solar panels to run the light, heat, and air conditioning, as well as all the electronics that today’s society depends upon. As for wind generators, well, it takes more energy to construct them than what they would save in their useful lifetime. Ms. Cortez has not come up with any viable solution as of yet. The Green New Deal is nothing more than a way to change the economic structure of our nation to one of government control over private ownership.

The division of the country gets even wider as each day goes by just by actions of the far-left Democrats and the liberal media propagandists. As Democrats commit crime after crime and get away with them without even a slap on the wrist, President Trump is being impeached on nothing more than doing his job. What Rep. Adam Schiff is doing in the way of investigating a supposed quid pro quo is actually a way for the Democrats to get as much dirt on the President as they can on the taxpayer’s dollar for the election. They are doing everything they can to find a crime that he has committed while actual crimes committed by Democrats are going totally ignored.

With the 24/7/365 propaganda against the President by mainstream media and our elected Democrat representatives in Congress, the people of the nation are being torn apart. The liberal voters are taking whatever is fed to them as truth no matter what it is (as long as it is against the President) while conservatives are questioning everything. If a conservative tries to inform a liberal with facts on a subject, that liberal ignores those facts and continues on with their emotional rant. It doesn’t seem to matter that Hillary Clinton obviously engaged in obstruction of justice by smashing phones with hammers, destroying emails, and removing SIM cards that were subpoenaed by Congress. It doesn’t seem to matter that the Clinton campaign and the Obama DOJ engaged in spying on the Trump campaign and using foreign operatives to get negative information on an opposition party. It doesn’t seem to matter that the DOJ lied to the FISA court to obtain warrants against Americans. It doesn’t matter that Joe Biden bragged, on tape, that he engaged in a quid pro quo with the Ukrainians to protect his son. All that matters is that Trump be deposed and destroyed in any way possible with accusations of exactly what the Democrats have done. Trump is guilty and the facts against the Democrats are just conspiracy theories. The country divides more.

Over the last forty years, the liberal left has slowly been indoctrinating our young into the socialist way of thinking. The Millennial generation has become almost 100% socialist. GenZ is up for grabs at this point. The problem is this: with liberal indoctrination from kindergarten through college, the people have not been taught what this country was built on. They have been taught that America is the bad guy; that capitalism is unfair; that the feelings of the few outweigh the rights of the many. Kids don’t know what it means to lose, to have their opinions debased, to not get what they want through throwing tantrums. They have been taught that everyone deserves a trophy, that their feelings are more important than the next person’s, that freedom of speech is only for those that agree with them, etc. With this way of thinking contradicting the Constitution and the ideology of the Founding Fathers, the country has become more divided now than during the Civil War. With conservatives on one side fighting for the God-given rights that the Constitution guarantees and the liberals on the other trying to take down everything that America is.

The Republican Party has never had a backbone. The elected representatives have never stood up and faced down the Democrats in Congress no matter what went on. They have always believed in fighting fairly and openly. The Democrats, on the other hand, have fought dirty, low and with no mercy. They would do anything to win. Anything. That is being proven right now, today, with all that is going on in Washington, DC. And as the left fights tooth-and-nail against the right, the country is being torn apart. The sad part about it is that the Democrats, and the left-leaning Republicans, don’t care. They would see our nation totally destroyed just to gain power. What they don’t understand is that if they destroy the country, they will have no one, and nothing, to rule over.

It doesn’t matter which side you are on. You can be a Democrat or a Republican, a conservative or a liberal, a socialist or a capitalist. If you don’t start believing in the United States as a sovereign nation, with immigration laws, Constitutional rights for citizens, equal justice under the law, an unbiased media, and fair elections, then you are part of the problem. You are part of the division of this great nation. If you can’t question what is being shoved down your throat by the media and politicians, and believe all that you read and hear, then you are part of the problem. If you are one of the millions that believe that only the government can fix the problems in the country, then you are part of the problem. We don’t need a huge, unchecked central government. That is not what the Founders wanted. We don’t need to be regulated so tightly that it will get to the point where we have to ask permission to use the restroom, and then worry about who is in there.

The Constitution enumerates the powers of Congress. That is all the power they have; no more, no less. We, the people, have allowed the federal government to grow to such a monstrosity that it will never be the way it was intended. As long as there are those that like the government doing for them, providing for them, thinking for them, we will never truly be the free nation that we started as. We have been divided so much that it has become another Civil War. Not with shot and powder, but with regulation, propaganda, and ideology.

Maybe we can fix the problem without going to a physical war. If we can only return to the founding principles of the nation; if we can go back to the Constitution, as written. Maybe we can heal the nation of the wounds inflicted by dividing ideology. Maybe.

Oh, What A Tangled Web We Weave

“Be careful the chosen path and the webs of practiced deceit, for where they led, all were responsible for the outcome of their fate.

“Good or bad, no one could be blamed save the person who brought favor or destruction down upon their own head.”

Those words by Sherrilyn Kenyon in At Death’s Door makes a lot of sense. Then again, Ms. Kenyon makes a lot of sense in most of her books. This quote is notable now because of where we are in the political arena currently. We have the far-left wing radicals, both Democrat and Republican, that are banging at the door of impeaching President Donald Trump while some are campaigning for the White House next year.

How does the quote match the circumstances? If you think about what is going on in both camps you can figure it out. On the impeachment front, the Democrat chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, has been deceiving the American people for three years with outbursts of having clear evidence against the President. Did he have any evidence? If he did, he should be charged with obstruction of justice because he never brought it forth in any investigation against the President.

After the now-infamous phone call to the new Ukrainian President, Rep. Schiff has announced at least two ‘whistleblowers;’ one of which had no first-hand knowledge of anything the President said. The other supposedly overheard the conversation. Both say that President Trump engaged in a quid pro quo with the Ukrainians by asking if they would look into the corruption scandal of the 2016 election. He didn’t ask for anything in return, just asked for a favor. He also suggested the Ukrainians look into the firing of the head prosecutor in the Burisma Holdings investigation when then-Vice President Joe Biden told them either fire the prosecutor or they wouldn’t get a billion dollars in foreign aid. The problem here is Rep. Schiff is keeping the identity of the whistleblowers a secret and not letting them testify.

Since then, the Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, has called for a formal impeachment inquiry with Rep. Schiff heading it up. Why would the chairman of the Intelligence Committee head up an impeachment inquiry when that would be more in the Judiciary Committee’s realm? Maybe because Rep. Adam Schiff is not quite on the up and up. He has kept all his interviews secret, behind closed doors. House members are not allowed in to listen and can only read the transcripts of the testimony with one of Rep. Schiff’s staff present. Only he can subpoena witnesses, only he can interview witnesses, witnesses are not to be cross-examined by the Republicans and the President is not allowed to have his attorney present during any interviews.

In other words, for those in California, it is a kangaroo court with a dictatorial, corrupt Representative heading it up.

How does the quote represent the 2020 Democrat presidential hopefuls? Each and every one of them is doing the politician thing spectacularly. They all are espousing the virtues of socialism, denouncing the evils of capitalism, and telling the American public that only the rich are going to pay for all their freebies.

The biggest deceit here is that only the rich will pay. There isn’t enough wealth in the country to pay for all their free stuff; which comes to anywhere from $9 Trillion to $15 Trillion per year. Next is that socialism is so great. Income equality, social justice against capitalism, open borders, abortion on demand even up to, and if wanted after birth. What the Democrats aren’t telling anyone is that all this is, is a stepping stone to a total government takeover of our lives. Socialism is the first step towards communism and communism has never achieved anything, anywhere, anytime, only total power to the government. When they talk about equality for all, they mean equally poverty, starvation, sickness, and hopelessness for everyone; except the privileged elite class that the government deems worthy.

What the far-left radical Democrats, and Republicans, don’t seem to understand is that we, the people of the United States, have tasted freedoms never given to a country’s citizens anywhere in the world. We, alone, have the guaranteed right to keep and bear arms. We have the right to speak out against our government and those that serve in government. We have the right to protest, peacefully. We are protected from unwarranted searches and seizure of our property. We won’t give those rights up willingly. We will use the Constitution as our biggest, strongest weapon. We, the people, are the rightful owners of the courts and government. We will not go peacefully into the night.

To make things better, we have the mainstream media. You know the ones: CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, etc. How are they making things better? It was in April of 2016 that Politico said that Trump needed to be impeached. You read right. Before he got nominated, Politico was saying that he needed to be thrown out of office. After the election in November, the rest followed suit. In less than forty-eight hours after the results of the election came in, “Trump has to be impeached.” It hasn’t stopped since. Every day the mainstream media accuses the President of some manufactured impeachable offense.

For over two years the nation was put through investigations into Donald J. Trump. There was the FBI investigation; the House Intelligence Committee investigation; the Senate Judiciary Committee investigation; and the two-year Mueller investigation. The Democrats knew that Trump had colluded with the Russians to win the election. They knew it. Through all those investigations there was not a shred of evidence that Donald Trump, his campaign, or any of his associates colluded with any Russian to win the election.

Since they couldn’t prove collusion, they decided to accuse him of obstruction of justice. After all, he fired James Comey, head of the FBI, for mishandling information, leaking to the press, and ineptitude. Since he was head of the FBI that had to mean that Trump was trying to end the collusion investigation. Mueller couldn’t prove that, either.

What the Mueller investigation did uncover was that the Clinton Campaign, Hillary Clinton, and the Clinton Foundation had bought a report (the dossier) from a former British spy filled with unverified dirt on Donald Trump from the Russians and/or Ukrainians. There is audio of Rep. Adam Schiff talking to Russians asking for nude photos of Trump and a prostitute. (This was a hoax perpetrated by what sounded like Russians, but Schiff was very eager to obtain these photos.) The Ukrainians admitted to interfering with the elections on request from the Clinton campaign. This has not been investigated by any Democrat committee or organization or the Congress.

Is this what our political parties are becoming? Is deceit, deception, corruption, quest for ultimate power the norm? It seems as though it is. The now formal impeachment inquiry has no chance of removing Donald Trump from office. The Senate knows that there is nothing impeachable that the President has done. They also know that there is nothing Constitutional about the inquiry and that it is being controlled totally by the Democrats. All this is, is a political ploy to undermine Trump’s campaign for the 2020 election.

If you can’t win with policy, cheat. There is no candidate on the Democrat side that would win an election against Trump and all that he has done for the country. With record low unemployment, record-high employment of minorities, record high stock market, historic tax cuts and regulation cuts, effective trade deals, stronger border security, working toward getting us out of endless wars, working toward de-nuclearizing North Korea, etc., the Democrats just can’t compete. They are running on socialism, open borders, abortion on demand (up to and even after birth), free everything for illegal aliens, stacking the Supreme Court, eliminating the Electoral College (thus ensuring Democrat wins because New York, California, and Illinois are the most populated states and are Democrat), and eliminating the Second Amendment.

Rep. Al Greene stated it so eloquently, “The only way to beat Trump is to impeach him.” Rep. Maxine Waters has been screaming (literally) for three years, “Impeach 45!” The mainstream media, which is just the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, has been reporting rumor instead of facts since before the election and parroting the cry for impeachment. Hollywood celebrities have joined in, also. This is a web of enormous proportions against a duly elected President. The far-left radicals, both Democrat and Republican, are doing everything they can to undo the 2016 election and go against the will of the people. The Founding Fathers were terrified of this.

From Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, etc., all the way to Reagan, politicians, conservative celebrities, philosophers, statesmen, authors, and everyday citizens can be quoted saying that we, the people, must be ardent in protecting our freedoms from tyranny and it will be we, the people, that will ultimately allow the government to become so big and so powerful as to be able to take those freedoms from us. The last three years have proven just that. The political machine in Washington, DC has shown just how corrupt it is and how far it will go to protect itself from the people. The Washington elite would rather destroy the entire country than give up their power and wealth. That is why they must get rid of Donald Trump. He is their Waterloo.

Richard Nixon was persecuted by the Democrats. He resigned before his impeachment was over. He committed crimes. Bill Clinton was impeached. The impeachment articles enumerated, I believe, eleven felonies. He was not removed from office. Both of these Presidents were afforded due process. They both had their attorneys present during questioning. They both had the opportunity to have witnesses on their behalf. Witnesses for the prosecution were cross-examined by the defense. Both of these impeachments were public. Point in fact, I can remember Senator Sam Irvine asking John Dean questions on TV.

What are the Democrats giving Donald Trump? Nothing. So far, the witnesses have all been disgruntled, former employees and/or Obama era employees. All interrogations/interviews have been behind closed doors. There has been no cross-examination, no witnesses for the defense, Trump’s attorneys are not allowed, and the public only knows what Rep. Adam Schiff decides to leak. In other words, for those of you in California, there has been no due process afforded President Donald J. Trump. There has been no crime committed. Articles of Impeachment have not been filed or voted on (this is supposed to happen this week). I’ve said it and said it and said it: this is a kangaroo court using communist-style investigating and interrogating/interviewing. Unconstitutional is an understatement.

The web of deceit, of corruption, is enlarging exponentially each day. The far-left radicals will soon learn that their ideology, their insane hatred of the President, the Constitution, conservatives, and the country as a whole will destroy the very thing that they want to control. The United States is on a precipice with one foot on a skateboard and the other hanging over the edge. They will have no one to blame but themselves when the economy collapses under their socialist policies, the government is overrun by the illegal aliens that they are protecting, or they are beheaded by the terrorists that enter the country proclaiming refugee status.

What Are The Congressional Powers

Congress, the elected representatives from each state that is responsible for legislating law. The Founders enumerated, in the Constitution, exactly what the powers of Congress are. Article One, Section Two, Paragraph Five: “The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.” Article One, Section Three, Paragraph Six: “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two-thirds of the Members present.” These are important at the moment as the Speaker of the House has declared a formal impeachment inquiry.

The enumerated powers of Congress are in Article One, Section Eight:

The Congress shall have the Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and Provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts, and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of The United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of Particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; - And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Those are the powers that Congress has. Any and all other powers are reserved to the several States and the people. Since we, the people, elect our representatives to fulfill these duties, they cannot be delegated to any other persons, offices, agencies, or departments. As I have stated in previous articles, there are a plethora of rules and regulations that are set by the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the EPA, the Department of Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, the IRS, etc. In other words, Congress has delegated legislation to persons, agencies, offices, or departments that have not been elected to represent us in any way. Congress has been derelict in its’ duties.

For the last several weeks, Congress has been trying to get the President to use military force against Turkey for its’ force against the Kurds in Syria. The President cannot do this without the consent of Congress, and they refuse to take a vote on the subject. To make matters worse, Turkey is a NATO member. The United States cannot use military force against a NATO ally without consequences. Article Five of the NATO Charter states that if one member is attacked it is an attack on all members and all members will go to the aid of the attacked nation. If the United States was to attack Turkey, then the other twenty-seven nations would have to come to the aid of Turkey against us. The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives would love for President Trump to do something that inept so they would have good reason to impeach him.

Article Two, Section Four states: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” So far, after four investigations conducted by the FBI, the Senate, the House, and the Special Prosecutor, there has been no crime of any kind committed by the President. Now the House has started another inquiry into some manufactured crime and are conducting interrogations, sorry, interviews, with former employees of the State Department and White House.

All these interviews are being done in secret, in the SCIF room, by Rep. Adam Schiff. He, alone, knows what is being said. The Democrats are the only ones that can subpoena witnesses. The President is not allowed to have his attorney present at any of these interviews, Republicans are not allowed to cross-examine any of these witnesses or call any of their own, and no one is allowed to read the transcripts of these interviews without a Democrat present. In other words, the President is not being afforded due process and only negative testimony is being given.

It was leaked that a Ukrainian official was interviewed and refused to say that the President committed extortion or blackmail, in essence, a quid pro quo, when asking for assistance in an open and ongoing corruption investigation regarding the 2016 election and possible abuse of power, a quid pro quo, by then-Vice President Joe Biden. Rep. Schiff attempted to coerce this official into saying the President did something that he had not done.

The Democrats have been demanding impeachment since Donald Trump was elected. By that, I mean less than forty-eight hours after the election and a month and a half before he was inaugurated. He was not supposed to win the election. He is a Washington outsider. He is not one of the political elites. He isn’t a politician. He is getting things done that our elected officials haven’t for decades. He is ruffling feathers and draining the political swamp of Washington, DC. And the Democrats, and some Republicans, aren’t liking that very much. Thus, this insane obsession to impeach him and get him out of office, or at the very least, keep him from being re-elected to a second term.

Yes, the House of Representatives has the sole power of impeachment – for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. The Constitution does not say a President can be impeached because the opposing party doesn’t like him. What the Democrats are attempting to do is overturn the 2016 election against the will of the people of the United States. It is a silent coup to take control of the government. Some conservative talk show hosts have theorized that the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and the Chairmen of several committees would like to rid the White House of both President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence and make the Speaker President. That would give the Democrats control; at least until next November.

As it is, there is nothing Constitutional about this impeachment. There has been no crime committed; they are searching for something to convict him on. There has been no vote of the whole House for this inquiry. There has been no due process. Rep. Schiff is using banana republic tactics for his kangaroo court. The inquiry was started because of a phone call between heads of state that should have been classified and has since been made public that supposedly proved Trump was forcing the Ukrainians to investigate a political rival, Joe Biden (who is running for President but hasn’t been nominated to be the candidate). The transcript of the call was made public and there was no quid pro quo. The whistleblower is not known to anyone except Rep. Schiff and he is not producing the witness or interviewing him/her. The whistleblower did not have firsthand knowledge but was going on overheard conversations and there have started to be questions as to whether there really is a whistleblower at all. Rep. Schiff declared for two years that he had incontrovertible evidence of Russian collusion, but the Mueller Investigation proved there was no collusion. Rep. Schiff recited, on record, to the House a transcript of the President’s call to the Ukrainian President that was a total fabrication. In a nutshell, Rep. Schiff is a liar and a charlatan; not one to be trusted at all.

Corruption

Corruption.

From local government to the highest offices in the world there is corruption. There is absolutely nothing the common man can do about it. Sure, we can vote the corrupt out of office and replace them with others but, soon enough, those new politicians will be just as corrupt as the old ones. Why? Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The Federal Government has that absolute power.

What about local government? You know the ones; the mayor, the city manager, the chief of police, the sheriff, the magistrate, county attorney, assessor. They can all be corrupt. Even the newest member of the local Gestapo, sorry, police force. I can't seem to bring myself to call them law enforcement officers because they aren't; they are revenue agents and bullies with badges in a lot of small towns across the nation. Even in the big cities, there are those that use their badge as a crown.

There has always been those in government that did whatever they had to to get their way from bribes to threats to downright murder. Everyone knows the story of Hanging Judge Roy Bean. Wyatt Earp wasn't exactly a saint his whole life. Presidents have been assassinated because someone was afraid they would be exposed by the highest office or someone wanted to move up a notch without going through the democratic process.

Look what is going on in DC today. The far left-wing liberals up there that are supposed to have sworn to uphold the Constitution and protect the nation from threats are fighting against the President who is trying to do just those things. The duly elected Congressmen and women are more interested in making sure the Donald J Trump doesn't win than protecting their constituents against foreign invasion from the southern border by people bound to destroy us.

How about the local constabulary that has a boner for someone? The racist cop, the drug-dealing cop, the cop on the take – it happens all over the country. And these are the ones that have sworn to uphold and protect the law. They do, when a private citizen breaks the law but, if a lawman breaks the law they are protected by the Blue Veil of Secrecy. And, if a citizen even thinks about reporting a lawman breaking the law they are threatened with incarceration for some fabricated crime with planted evidence. It happens. It also happens that there are those lawmen that will fabricate crimes on people they don't like.

How about those that have served time in prison? Let's say someone spends five to ten years in a so-called correctional facility for smoking weed or some other half-baked, nonsense crime. They spend their days doing nothing except going insane from boredom. They are in there with others that have broken some insane law that doesn't make sense and some that broke a law that needed punishment. What happens? They learn that the law is unfair, their minds go numb, they become more and more angry, and, to top it off, they learn how to break more severe laws.

When they come out do they receive help returning to society? Some do, some don't. An ex-con can become a productive member of society if the justice system will help them. A lot of times the justice system does its best to send that ex-con back to prison. Probation officers make it hard for that man, or woman, to get even try to get set up again. Let's put an ankle monitor on their leg that wears a hole in their skin and shows the world that this person is bad. Let's not let them get a driver's license so they can get around. Let's make sure they can't have a phone to make and receive calls from potential employers. Let's not let them have internet access (if they are convicted of any kind of sex crime) so they can't communicate with friends and family.

The justice system is not just and the court system is not blind. Courts are not a place of justice, only what can be proven and how much money you have to spend to defend yourself. Even court-appointed attorneys are not free and they usually work for the county, not the client. Plea bargains are commonplace instead of a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. If you do happen to proven 'not guilty' it isn't saying that you are innocent only that they didn't have enough evidence to prove you guilty.

Congress continually legislates more and more laws. For such a free country we are weighed down with laws against everything. We can't hunt, fish or trap without paying for the privilege of doing so. We have to wear helmets and seat belts. We can't swim where we want. We can't stop, stand or park where we want. We have to pay to do just about everything except breathe and, sooner or later, they will find a way to make us pay for that. If the government can't tax it, they say you have to buy a permit for it. If you take a good, hard, honest look at it, I'd say that close to 70% of what a person makes working goes to the government in some form of tax or permit or fine for some small infraction.

Brings me to another point. The Constitution says that excessive fines are prohibited. Funny, for an overweight fine in some states it can cost from $200 to $4,000. Littering from $75 to $500. Court costs (which I thought taxes paid for the court system) can run up to $500 plus other extortion fees they charge on TOP of the fine. A little excessive if you ask me.

It comes down to corruption. And this country does its best to fight corruption in foreign countries. Corruption in its finest form. We hate it when a foreign nation tries to interfere with our electoral process but we will do our best to screw over some third world, or up and coming, country's government. Who is the corrupt ones? Who is worse – Meduro from Venezuela, Putin from Russia, Kim from North Korea, or Pelosi from the US and May from the UK? Which country is more corrupt? I think it's a toss-up. I live in the USA so I can only say what I see here and it ain't good anymore.

The Political Utopia

“Tyranny is the use of power to dehumanize the individual and delegitimize his nature. Political utopianism is tyranny disguised as a desirable workable and even paradisiacal governing ideology.” So says Mark Levin in his book, Ameritopia. If you stop and think about it, he’s right. Look throughout history and see what tyrannical dominions did, how they treated their subjects. Kings and queens the world over have thought of their subjects as possessions to be used as they saw fit, not as human beings with rights.

Political utopianism, the ideology that the far-left radicals are pursuing, is just that. They are espousing the virtues of equality of everything from economics to so-called basic human rights. When everything, and everyone, is equal, there is no exceptionalism, there is no individualism. The worst-case scenario is there is no freedom; of thought, belief, speech, press, self-preservation or protection. It is tyranny when the government controls everything so that all are equal; except the government, which is privileged because they are the ones giving to the people.

It has been said many times by many people that if you do not study, and understand history, it will repeat itself. It is obvious that the ones promoting equality for all, basically totalitarianism, have not read a single line of history. It has been well documented over the centuries that such societies do not endure the test of time. Karl Marx’s theory of ‘From each according to his ability to each according to his need’ (equality for all) is unsustainable as those that are working the hardest soon realize that it doesn’t pay them to work that hard; especially when those that don’t work receive their support with no effort.

Margaret Thatcher stated it best, “The thing about socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.” Equality for all is just that – the government cannot give anyone anything until it takes from someone else. As Thatcher said, sooner or later that flow of money will disappear because those that the government is taking it from will either 1) leave or 2) become one of the recipients of government handouts. When everyone is on the handout bandwagon there will be no one to pull it.

The far-left are saying they only want to tax the top one percent; the wealthiest. That sounds really good to someone who is in the bottom one percent, or even the bottom ten percent. After all, why should those people that don’t work have all that money while the working man is starving? Throw in the statistics that the bottom ten percent are normally minorities and then you have racial divide on top of class division. What is the far-left’s answer to that question: take the top one percent’s money from them and redistribute it to the bottom percentile through government handouts. The top one percent didn’t get there by being stupid with their time, effort, or money. They will not give it up. If need be, they will take their money and leave the country. When that happens then the taxation falls to the next level down, then the next, and the next. Sooner or later there will be no one left to tax.

The state of Illinois came up with a grand scheme to keep its biggest taxpayers from leaving. That state instituted a tax on anyone leaving the state. Tyranny comes to mind. How can a government demand that a person stay within its’ boundaries or punish whoever wants to leave unless that government is tyrannical? If the ones paying the bills aren’t there to pay them, then that utopia is jeopardized. Thus, Mark Levin was correct in his assumption that political utopianism is tyranny.

How did Hitler win over the hearts and minds of the millions of people in Germany and Austria? He did it through promises of equality and prosperity for all. He propagandized the media of the day. He then turned his utopia into the Nazi regime it became. It took the world to defeat him. He had his loyal followers in the Nazi Party that had everything he promised. What the rest of his people had was poverty, strife, and terror. You either followed him totally or you were exterminated along with the rest of his enemies. He ruled with an iron fist as all totalitarian rules have done. What happened to the utopia he promised? He couldn’t deliver it as he well knew from the beginning. Utopia cannot exist alongside human nature.

Equality cannot ever be achieved. Ever. Not everyone is equal because not everyone has the motivation or ability to be equal to everyone else. Worker’s rights, immigrant’s rights, gay rights, black’s rights, transgender’s rights, the list goes on and one and is never-ending. Therefore, not everyone can be equal. As soon as one group is equal to everyone else, another group emerges demanding equality. This is not to say that everyone should not have equal rights under the law.

Everyone should have the ability to be housed, in a home they can afford; everyone should be able to feed themselves; everyone should be able to have healthcare available to them. Not everyone has the inalienable right to have these things given to them at the expense of the rest of the people. Not everyone is willing to put in the time and effort to afford what the next person has. Some can afford a huge, multi-million-dollar mansion while others can barely afford a two-room apartment. It is the effort put in that makes the difference. Equality, therefore, is equality in misery.

Dr. Ben Carson, the nation’s leading neurosurgeon now HUD secretary, grew up in poverty. Yes, he took advantage of government assistance to eat, be housed, go to school. The difference between Dr. Carson and the average poor person, of any color, is Dr. Carson had the motivation to get out of poverty and become successful. As Bill Gates once said, “If you are born poor, it isn’t your fault. If you die poor, it is.” In the far-left’s vision of Utopia, there can be no success for the individual because individualism is not allowed.

Liberty and equality cannot coexist. The Founding Fathers knew this. They did not create a government that restricted individualism and individual exceptionalism. It was just that individualism that helped create this great nation. It took innovators and free thinkers dedicated to a land of opportunity and freedom to go against the mightiest army and navy in the world. It was that need for freedom and liberty that drove the colonists to fight against King George and the mighty British military. That need was for the common good but brought about by the individuals with the passion for freedom to achieve those freedoms and liberties.

In the last 240 plus years this nation has created the world’s most remarkable things. We have been the leaders in innovation, manufacturing, and technology. We are not a perfect nation by any means because humanity is imperfect. This is another reason utopia will not ever succeed: man’s imperfection. Utopia tries to make the imperfect perfect. Without that perfection, it does not work. Equality demands perfection from all; perfect thought, perfect behavior, perfect obedience to government. Man is not perfect and never will be. God instilled in us free will and that free will demands expression. Without the motivation to succeed, to prosper, we might not have the electric light, automobiles, telephone or cell phone, computers, etc. It took unequal people to achieve this.

Right now, in Hong Kong, there are people protesting the tyrannical dominion of communist China. China is a working model of equality. Everyone is equal to everyone else. Everyone thinks the same, behaves the same, suffers the same; except in Hong Kong. The British had control of Hong Kong for years and those people knew what freedom and liberty were. That is their Utopia and they are fighting to keep it. They do not want to go back under the iron-fisted rule of a tyrannical central government. Hong Kong is the antithesis of Beijing. There is prosperity, free speech, free will, and exceptionalism in everything you see on that tiny island. There is poverty, suffering, and oppression in mainland China. A stark difference between the totalitarianism of an equalized government and a free, liberty-based society.

Barack Obama stated the utopian agenda so eloquently when he said that the individual did not create anything, it took the whole country. That is equality. It destroys the individual’s claim to creativity. Did Mr. Obama start the drive to political utopianism? No. This drive to socialistic tyranny started decades ago when the American people, in their complacency, started giving up their rights and freedoms to government regulation and assistance.

The best way to describe the advent of political utopianism is, as stated by Mark Levin in Ameritopia, “It usually takes the form of material ‘rights’ delivered to the individual by the state. Consequently, equality and liberty are both subjects of utopian demagoguery and manipulation. Liberty is encouraged if its end is equality. Liberty, by itself, is not.

“Equality is also disguised as or confused with people’s sovereignty – that is, the conflagration of ‘the people’s will’ with egalitarian campaigns, such as ‘social justice,’ ‘environmental justice,’ ‘immigrant rights.’ ‘workers’ rights,’ etc.”

Other ways that our liberties are being restricted is through the misconceptions of ‘child safety,’ ‘security,’ ‘health issues,’ ‘government assistance,’ etc. With the advent of the social welfare system came the start of political utopianism; the start of liberty’s downfall. When the people started depending on the government, which depends on taxes paid to it from the people, the people started giving up their rights and conforming to the social utopia envisioned by the far left. Was the left as radical in the 1920’s, 30’s, even up to the 1990’s as they are now in the 2010s? Not outwardly.

The left has slowly but surely been indoctrinating the country into their utopian vision. That was the only way to achieve their goal. Once the ideology was out in the open during the Obama era, it was no longer necessary to be discreet about their ultimate end. The left now has at least one full generation indoctrinated into the utopian ideology as can be seen with the calls for socialism by many young people and the celebration of openly socialist politicians.

As I stated earlier, this did not start in the recent past. In 1887, Congress created the Interstate Commerce Commission. This was the start, the embryo, of our socialist society. In 2016, Congress passed 2,966 pages of laws and other federal agencies churned out 97,110 pages of new regulations. Even President Calvin Coolidge was concerned about the power growth in government. “This is not the government which was put into form by Washington and Hamilton and popularized by Jefferson. Some of the stabilizing safeguards which they had provided have been weakened. (The Conservative Sensibility, George F. Will, 2019)

Gary Lawson described one small part of the monstrosity that had developed in our government with his description of the Federal Trade Commission:

“The Commission promulgates substantive rules of conduct. The Commission then considers whether to authorize investigations into whether the Commission’s rules have been violated. If the Commission authorizes an investigation, the investigation is conducted by the Commission, which reports its findings to the Commission. If the Commission thinks that the Commission’s findings warrant an enforcement action, the Commission issues a complaint. The Commission’s complaint that a Commission rule has been violated is then prosecuted by the Commission and adjudicated by the Commission. The Commission adjudication can either take place before the full Commission or before a semi-autonomous Commission administrative law judge. If the Commission chooses to adjudicate before an administrative law judge rather than before the Commission and the decision is adverse to the Commission, the Commission can appeal to the Commission. (Conservative Sensibilities, George F. Will, 2019)

What Mr. Lawson said, in a nutshell, is that the Federal Trade Commission has absolute power in conducting its’ business and if its’ rules are broken can investigate and adjudicate within its’ own authority with no oversight from anywhere else. This is just one example of government overreach and abuse of power. Since the start of the 20^th Century, the various government agencies have become so numerous and large that instead of being the exception to the rule, Philip Hamburger once said, they have ‘swallowed the rule.” Administrative law has “dwarfed statutory law and has become the federal government’s pervasive mode of dealing with the public.” Federal agencies’ regulation filled 18,000 pages of the Code of Federal Regulations in 1938 and 175,000 by 2014. (Conservative Sensibility, George F. Will, 2019)

This is exactly what the Founding Fathers feared most; a tyrannical government that was so large as to be unstoppable in its’ thirst for power over the people. The power that is not enumerated in the Constitution is left to the several states and the people of the country. What the federal government has done is overreach those boundaries a little at a time until it has gotten to the point where the people cannot live without it. With each new agency, each new department, there are more and more regulations and restrictions on the people and more and more power to the federal government. The political utopianism has been in the making for well over a century.

Before I could graduate high school in 1978, I was required to take a course called Government. This course taught the way government should be run, what government was, what powers the government had. Sadly, there was no comparison to what the government was to what the founders intended. I was not taught the Constitution and what it said about separation of power, enumerated powers, responsibilities of each branch, etc. I was taught the Preamble and the Bill of Rights. The sad thing is that my children were not taught these things. I taught them what the Constitution was and what rights and privileges we, the people, have.

The government-run schools don’t want the people to know how the founders intended the government to be restricted. They don’t want the people to know what rights they have or what power they have over the government. This is why young people today are demanding a more and more socialist society, equality for all, the political utopia. What these young people aren’t taught is that Marxism, Stalinism, socialism, and equality for all are all terms for tyranny, suffering, and oppression for all.

American exceptionalism is a very unique thing. The founders created a never-before-heard of style of governance of, for, and by the people. That, in and of itself, is unique. No other country in the world had ever been so governed and no other country in the world has ever done it since. There are democratic countries other than the United States; the United Kingdom is now democratically run by a parliament for example, but the monarchy remains. It is our exceptionalism that has made this country the greatest power in the world. What took Rome, Greece, and Britain hundreds, or thousands of years to achieve, the United States did in a little over a century; we became a world power that others sought out for help in crises. Today, it is the United States that polices and subsidizes the world. It is our military might that protects weaker countries. Even the once greatest military in the world, the British, come to us for help. The left’s vision of a political utopia would destroy that.

Equality for all is equality for none. Socialized medicine is not exceptional healthcare for all. It is healthcare only for those that keep producing for years; whether or not the sick had paid into the system. It doesn’t matter if a 70-year-old person had paid into the system their entire life, if they needed a major medical procedure and there was a 16-year-old patient, that had not paid in a penny, that needed a similar procedure the 16-year-old would receive care and the 70-year-old would not. Why? Simply because the younger patient has years of work ahead of him/her and the 70-year-old does not. Yet, socialized medicine is being called Medicare-For-All.

No country in the world has ever made socialism or communism work for the benefit of the people. The left keeps espousing the benefits of the Scandinavian countries and their socialist societies. What the left doesn’t say is that those countries are taxed so high that private ownership is practically unheard of and that most of them are on the verge of bankruptcy. Is that what you want for our country?

Madison and Federalist #10

With all that is happening in Washington, DC, I think it prudent to discuss Federalist #10. Written by James Madison in November of 1787, Federalist #10 discusses the subject of factions.

“Among the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed, than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction... The instability, injustice, and confusion, introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as thy continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty drive their most specious declamations... our governments are too unstable; that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties; and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice, and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

“By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or the the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

“There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.

“There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence, the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.”

What was Madison saying here? When a country is a strong union, one of the advantages that should be developed is a way to keep a faction from becoming too strong and violent. When a faction becomes too powerful it will instill instability, injustice, and confusion into the government; that, throughout history, that instability, injustice, and confusion has been the downfall of governments and are the favorite and useful tools that adversaries of liberty are wont to use.

When he speaks that our governments (meaning of the several states) were too unstable without a central, unionizing government, and that the good of the public was not taken into consideration because of the conflicts between political parties; that legislation and policy too often is decided by force of the majority party outside the rules of justice and forsaking the rights of the minority party.

When a group of people is united in a cause, whether they are the majority or not, inspired by a common passion, there is no thought of the rights or interests of other people it is a faction.

There are two ways of curing the effects of a faction: one, by removing the reasons, the passion, of the faction, and the other is to control the outcome. Madison went on to say that there are two ways to remove the causes of the faction. One, by destroying the liberties that actually allow the faction to operate, and the other to force everyone to believe as the faction does.

If we were to remove the liberties we have, the right to free speech, freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government, any faction would no longer be able to operate. This is not what the Founders wanted. They put those rights into the Constitution because they had, themselves, been deprived of those rights. Without the freedom to voice our opinions, to print our thoughts, assemble to protest and petition the government, we would lose the ability to debate, to grow, to learn. In other words – we would stagnate and become automatons, mindless serfs. This would be much worse than having a number of people out there spouting their rhetoric to the masses.

To force another's opinion onto the masses would be even worse. We need to be about to have different opinions. The government cannot legislate how a person thinks or believes. At least not in any kind of free society. So what would be the best way to subdue a violent faction? There is no way. People will always have differences because of differing cultures, religions, etc. All we can do is try to keep the damage at a minimum.

But, if you take what is going on today with the faction of far-left radical liberalism, the animosity toward the President and his policies, the fight against our Constitution and our freedoms, can you see what Madison was talking about? Do you see the prophetic statements about how a faction will do what it can against the rights and interests of others, no matter how unjust, to have their way? What are the far-left radicals doing in Washington, DC, and have been for the last three years? The Trump Derangement Syndrome is escalating daily.

It was less than 48 hours after the election when the left started talking about impeaching Donald Trump. He hadn't even taken office yet. What made it worse is that the mainstream media, such as the New York Times and CNN, were right there with them. The propaganda that Trump had to be impeached went on every day, 24 hours a day. This is the faction, the confusion, the violence that Madison warned us about. This anti-Trump faction doesn't care about what their actions are doing to the country as a whole. All they care about is getting rid of a duly elected President because he was not supposed to win.

Madison continued, “No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay, with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties, at the same time;” Does this maybe state why Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Elijah Cummings, etc. should not be investigating their illegal impeachment inquiry? They are but judges and parties in this scheme. Their interests are definitely biased and their integrity has been corrupted. It is painfully obvious when Mr Schiff stands before the House of Representatives and recites a transcript of the President's conversation with the President of Ukraine that is totally fabricated.

Madison continues to explain that in a pure democracy, the faction, if it is the majority, will win the day. That is the main reason that the Founders set up our country as a Constitutional Republic. We are not a democracy. We have elected officials to represent our wants and needs. This is the only way that a majority faction can be controlled. We need to let our representatives know what we want and need. It is their job to represent us in the central government. If the majority faction is going against the rights and liberties of the whole, it is only through equal representation that the minority can have a voice and keep those rights and liberties.

Yes, the House of Representatives is controlled by the Democrat Party. There are a number of Republicans that have sided with the Democrats. The question is: Are these representatives actually representing what the people want? Do the people of the country, as a whole, want to impeach a President that is up for re-election in a little over a year? Wouldn't it be more prudent to let the country decide next November if Donald Trump should stay in office or not?

If the House continues down the path of impeachment, it will go to the Senate for trial. The Senate, being Republican-controlled, will hear the evidence and vote whether to expel the President from office or to allow him to continue as Commander-in-Chief. It really doesn't matter what the House decides.

We have entered into very dark times. For the last three years, the Democrats have changed rules on a lot of different things just so they could find something, anything, against the President. What they have actually done is made it to where any President can be thwarted by Circuit Courts, undermined by planted spies, impeached just because the opposing party doesn't like him/her. In effect, the Democrat Party has bastardized the Constitution into a weapon when needed, ignored when needed. The House has become the authoritarian dictator that they claim Trump is.

Let's take a little trip down memory lane. Remember when Congress subpoenaed over thirty-thousand emails and the private server they were stored on; when phones were smashed with hammers and the SIM cards taken out; when computers were wiped clean with BleachBit? Do you also remember when the FBI director exonerated the perpetrator in that little debacle?

Do you remember when people screamed and cried because the wrong candidate won the Electoral College and then the opposition party declared that candidate used foreign interference to win the election? How about when, not even 48 hours after the election, the opposition party started yelling impeachment? Do you remember an investigation that lasted over two years with a special prosecutor looking for a crime to impeach a duly elected president?

Then there was a phone call from the President to the President of Ukraine congratulating him on his wins and, as an after-thought, the President asking if Ukraine could look into an American Vice-President's son being put on the Board of Directors of a Ukrainian gas and oil company with no experience in the gas and oil industry and the then Vice-President strong-arming the Ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor looking into it or they wouldn't receive a billion dollars in foreign aid. That started an impeachment inquiry against the President; no full House vote, only Democrats involved in questioning and calling witnesses and done behind closed doors without any chance of cross-examination or the President's attorneys present.

Everything that the Democrats have accused Trump of doing is exactly what they have done. They accused him of colluding with the Russians to win the election. It was the Clinton Campaign and the DNC that bought an unverified dossier against Trump from a former foreign spy that got it from the Russians. The Democrats accused Trump of obstruction of justice yet it was Clinton that destroyed her phones and computers and deleted over thirty-thousand emails that were subpoenaed by Congress. The Democrats accuse Trump of strong-arming the Ukrainian government to interfere in the 2020 election yet it was Vice-President Joe Biden that admitted to withholding a billion dollars of foreign aid if the Ukrainians didn't fire their head prosecutor investigating Burisma Holdings for corruption; a company that Hunter Biden, Joe's son, was paid fifty thousand dollars a month from for being on their Board of Directors. Hunter Biden had no experience or knowledge of oil and gas or of Ukraine yet he got this job while his father was Vice-President of the United States.

Is there a faction at work here? It was common knowledge that Donald Trump would not win the 2016 election and that Hillary Clinton would win. When Mrs. Clinton lost, it started the Trump Derangement Syndrome and Anti-Trump campaign. It didn't matter what policy Trump wanted to institute, the Democrats thwarted him. They used the 9^th Circuit Court to stymie any attempt to stop the flow of illegals into our country, to stop his ban on immigration from enemy countries, to stop him from doing anything that needed to be done to protect the country. Since the 2018 election, when the Democrats won the House, nothing has gotten done except for investigation after investigation, accusation after accusation, obstruction on any bill presented, and now, impeachment proceedings. Why? It would seem simply because Hillary Clinton didn't win the election.

The Democrat Party is so intent on power and getting rid of Donald Trump that they have gone so far as to suggest impeaching Vice-President Mike Pence first and forcing Trump to appoint a VP to their liking then finish the impeachment of him. If Trump refuses to appoint their choice for VP, then Nancy Pelosi would become President and the Democrats would have their power. At least until next November. To keep the White House, the Democrats want to do away with the Electoral College thus making 95% of the country's voters invalid. After all, the two most populated states are New York and California, both deep blue states. Add Illinois in there, also a blue state, and the conservative voice is silenced.

The Democrats also want to stack the Supreme Court with liberal Justices. For decades the Democrats have used the Supreme Court to legislate into law their far-left policies. With a mostly originalist Court, they won't be able to get their policy into law since they aren't able to actually legislate it into law. Unfortunately, it isn't the Court's duty to legislate, only to judicate.

Yes, this is the faction that Madison warned about. It is dangerous to our republic and our way of life. Unchecked, this faction would do away with our most cherished rights and freedoms. They have already effectively silenced the conservative voice through censorship in social media, propaganda in mainstream media, indoctrination in education, and political correctness. Through their actions against Donald Trump and his associates, they have done away with the presumption of innocence and the rule of law. They are fighting a war against the Second Amendment, effectively doing away with it through regulation. Every presidential candidate on the Democrat ticket has stated they want to raise taxes up to 97%, do away with capitalism, open our borders to any and everyone, and most terrifying, turn our Constitutional Republic into a Socialist State.

The chaos and violence of this faction are growing. It is propagandized by the mainstream media, taught in public schools, celebrated in entertainment, and forced down our throats by our elected officials. Only through due diligence can we turn this tide. Only through forcing our representatives to actually represent us can we stop this threat to our rights and freedoms. It is up to the rightful owners of the government, of the country, to keep America true to her heritage. A heritage that was fought for with the blood of thousands. Only we can prevent socialism from taking over and destroying the greatest country on Earth.

The Silent Coup Against America

Election night, November 2016. As the election results come in, no one believes that Donald J. Trump could possibly win the Presidency. No one. TV commentators keep saying it, “Donald Trump stands no chance of winning. Hillary Clinton has the White House.” No one believed it until he kept winning county after county after county. The final tally – Donald Trump: 304 electoral votes. Hillary Clinton: 227. The Chosen One had lost. The Democrat Party had counted on Hillary Clinton winning the election and finishing the job that Barack Hussein Obama had started. She was going to continue the Obama Legacy of destroying the Constitutional Republic called the United States of America. Now, that dream was over.

Thank the gods of every pantheon that the Founders knew the majority vote was not the way to elect a president. Hillary Clinton did win the majority vote; thanks to California, New York, and Illinois. The Electoral College gives every state, therefore every voter, a voice in who leads this country for at least four years. If it were the majority vote, three states would have elected the president. That is 0.06 percent of states. As it was, 100 percent of states had their voices heard. It drove the Democrats crazy.

Democrat voters across the nation screamed and cried, had to have safe spaces, and needed counseling. They believed that Hillary Clinton would win and that Donald Trump would destroy our country. Within 48 hours, members of Congress were saying that Donald Trump needed to be impeached. Never before had this happened. The newly, duly elected President-elect was under the microscope and being investigated for impeachment and he hadn’t even taken the oath of office yet.

How can I say that? It has come to light through four investigations that the Obama DOJ and FBI spied on the Trump Campaign for anything that could be used against him. With information from the Mueller Investigation we know that FBI employees would do anything to keep Trump from winning and, if he did, would have an ‘insurance policy’ against him. The Deep State, those that are employed within the government, not elected, that were loyal to Obama hated Trump and spied on him for information. The Clinton Campaign paid a former foreign spy, Christopher Steele, for a dossier filled with unverified dirt on Trump that Mr. Steele collected from Russia. The FBI used this dossier to acquire FISA warrants to spy on Trump associates, such as George Papadopoulos and Carter Paige.

The FBI also used assets to try to get Trump associates to collude with foreign governments in an effort to sway the election to Trump. James Comey, then head of the FBI, leaked information to the press about this, and other things, in order to force a special prosecutor and investigation against Trump. For the next two years that special prosecutor investigated. Robert Mueller, a well-respected prosecutor in Washington, was assigned that duty. After hundreds of subpoenas and interviews, the Mueller Report finally came out. What did the top investigators in the country come up with? What came out of all the investigations was that the Democrats colluded with the Russians and Donald Trump and his campaign were clear of any wrongdoing. There was no Russian collusion nor any obstruction of justice on the part of Trump or any of his associates.

Yes, there were associates that were tried, and convicted, of other crimes; some conjured out of thin air or orchestrated by the investigators. They were convicted of lying to the FBI, tax evasion, or were forced into confessions of crimes they did not commit. Paul Manafort was kept in solitary confinement for months in the hopes that he would break and construct some lie about Trump. General Michael Flynn was forced into a confession or his son would have gone under investigation for some fabricated crime. As for any wrongdoing in the election process, there was none.

With all that, still there are members of Congress that are yelling impeach him. Almost from day one that has been the battle cry of the Democrat Party. Rep. Maxine Waters went to the streets and encouraged people to ‘get in the face’ of any Trump Administration officials no matter where they were. What came of this? Trump officials were driven out of restaurants by angry Democrat voters and Hillary Clinton supporters. Trump officials were harassed anywhere they went in public. Some were even accosted at their homes. And it wasn’t just officials. Some conservative talk show hosts, such as Sean Hannity, were harassed at their homes.

Celebrities have even gotten into the political arena with their take on taking down the Trump Administration. Madonna made a statement that she had ‘thought a lot about blowing up the White House.’ Johnny Depp stated, “I wonder when it was the last time an actor killed a president?” Kathy Griffin showed up onscreen with a decapitated head of Donald Trump. It is not just the President that has been threatened. Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner (Ivanka’s husband), and even Barron Trump, the President’s 10-year-old son, have all been threatened in one way or another.

During the previous administration, then Vice-President Joe Biden was tasked with going to Ukraine to give the Ukrainian government a billion dollars in foreign aid so they would not go bankrupt. At the time, VP Biden’s son, Hunter, had been placed on the Board of Directors of a Ukrainian gas and oil company known as Burisma Holdings. Young Mr. Biden had no experience, nor knowledge, of the oil and gas industry, or even of Ukraine. The Ukrainian government was investigating Burisma Holdings for corruption and VP Biden instructed the government to fire the head prosecutor in the investigation. Why? Was it because that prosecutor was about to interview Hunter Biden? It really doesn’t matter. What happened was that VP Biden threatened to withhold the billion dollars if the prosecutor wasn’t fired within six hours. In a TV interview, VP Biden bragged about extorting the Ukrainians and stated, “Son of a bitch! The prosecutor was fired.”

In another case of possible ethics violations is when Hunter Biden rode on Air Force 2 with VP Biden to China. Within days, the Chinese government’s bank entrusted a newly formed equity holding company, owned by Hunter Biden, Chris Heinz (stepson of John Kerry) and a nephew of a known mafia-type, with $1.5 Billion. None of the owners had any experience in finance. Instead of handing the nation’s money to an experienced equity company such as Goldman Sachs, the Chinese handed it to inexperienced people.

Donald Trump, in a phone call with the newly elected President of Ukraine, simply asked if the Ukrainian government would look into the firing of the prosecutor and mentioned Joe Biden. The Democrats went berserk, stating that Trump was trying to influence the 2020 election by having a foreign government investigate a political rival. How did they find out about the private phone call between heads of state? A whistleblower; a person without firsthand knowledge of the call. The Democrats have protected this whistleblower’s identity for fear of retribution. All Trump wants to know is who it is so he can figure out whether it is another liberal spy. As it turns out, the person is a CIA operative.

The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, gave a press conference informing the American public that she was instituting a formal impeachment inquiry into the matter of the phone call. The Constitution gives the sole authority of impeachment to the House of Representatives. The entire House, not just the Speaker. Ms. Pelosi has yet to call for a full House vote and has given Rep. Adam Schiff, Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, the duty of heading up the inquiry. All interviews have been behind closed doors, in secret, without any Republican being present to ask questions; without the President’s attorneys present to cross-examine, and without the authority of the full House.

In the last three years, since Donald Trump was elected, almost every non-elected person in power in Washington has been fired. James Comey, James Clapper, and John Brennen, all heads of intelligence departments, are gone for one reason or another; mostly for abuse of power or leaking classified information. Peter Strozk, Lisa Page, Bruce Orr, still employed but implicated in the illegal spying on Trump. Former officials such as Loretta Lynch, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, and Sally Yates are all implicated. The list goes on and on of former Obama Administration officials that are anti-Trump. It is rumored that James McCabe, former FBI department head, claimed that he was following the orders of Barack Obama.

This is a silent coup against a duly elected President of the United States. The Democrat Party has done everything it can against the President to keep him from fulfilling his promises to the American People. According to the Heritage Foundation, of the more than 360 policies that needed to be changed, President Trump had achieved in his first year over 60% of them. All without the help of Congress. Most Presidents would do good to achieve that goal after 8 years with the help of Congress.

After three years in office, Trump has brought back many manufacturing jobs, given the largest tax cut in history, gotten over seven million people off food stamps, lowered the unemployment rate to an average of less than 4%, raised the employment rate for minorities and women to record highs, is securing the southern border, has gotten North Korea to the bargaining table and is making headway in fair trade deals with all nations. Donald John Trump is just what this nation needed to fix what the former administrations couldn’t, or wouldn’t. That is why the establishment politicians are against him – he has achieved, single-handedly, in three years what they couldn’t, or wouldn’t, in decades. He is making them look unnecessary, ineffectual, and useless.

As I was listening to Mark Levin this afternoon, he read a transcript (obtained by the Washington Review) of an interrogation Adam Schiff had with the Ukrainian Ambassador. During his questioning, Mr. Schiff demanded that the Ambassador say what he wanted him to. He almost forced a foreign dignitary to say that Trump had strong-armed the Ukrainian government into investigating Joe Biden. When the Ambassador refused to do it, Mr. Schiff basically put the words into his mouth. This is not something that Americans do. This is Soviet-style interrogation. Yet, the Democrats accuse Trump of being an autocrat that is power-hungry.

As the Democrats continue to say that no one is above the law, that Donald Trump is shredding the Constitution, and that the President is destroying our Constitutional Republic, I have to sit back and shake my head. Every Democrat that has broken the law has gotten a pass from Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, James Comey, James Clapper, Loretta Lynch, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, to Barack Hussein Obama, himself. What are the crimes that they have committed? Obstruction of justice, spying on American citizens, trying to influence an election using a foreign power, blackmailing a foreign nation for personal gain using the power of the Vice-Presidency, extortion, and treason.

It is the Democrat Party that has shredded the Constitution in every conceivable way. Refusing to give presumption of innocence to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and now the President; using the press as their propaganda medium; silencing the conservative voices through censorship on social media, public speaking, and assembling; not allowing due diligence on the part of the Republicans during an impeachment inquiry; using Soviet-style interrogation of witnesses to obtain evidence against the President in an impeachment inquiry; using the power of the House of Representatives to overturn an election. If you want to go further than that, the 2020 Democrat candidates have all stated that they would do away with the Electoral College, effectively do away with the Second Amendment by forcing citizens to surrender their firearms, stack the Supreme Court in their favor, and open the borders to all comers (the President has the power of immigration, not the Congress).

As for destroying our Constitutional Republic – well, the word of the day is Socialism. Many of the Democrats have stated that they are Democratic Socialists and want to change our societal and economic structure to that of Socialism. If that isn’t trying to destroy our Constitutional Republic, I’d like to know what is.

These are not just my opinions, people. These are things that I have seen and heard from the left over and over. They don’t hide it anymore. The Democrat Party is corrupt as any communist government that ever existed. How do they get away with it? The mainstream media is covering for them. Nothing that is done is reported and if it is, well, it’s minimized by CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc. Even though Joe Biden is on tape bragging about blackmailing the Ukrainian government, the mass media, and Democrat Congressmen, are saying it is a conspiracy theory and unverified. Even though Hillary Clinton deleted over thirty-thousand emails, destroyed computers and phones, and removed SIM cards, all subpoenaed by Congress, she was exonerated by James Comey and that means she did no wrong. These are just two examples of their corruption.

When the Democrats are saying that Donald Trump wants Joe Biden investigated to get dirt on a political opponent, think about this: What are the Democrats doing with their Soviet-style impeachment inquiry? They are interrogating witnesses behind closed doors, with no cross-examination or witnesses from the opposing party. No Republicans know what is happening behind those doors except what Rep. Adam Schiff leaks out. The witnesses that are being subpoenaed are all disgruntled former employees or Obama-era left-overs. Add to those facts that Rep. Schiff is strong-arming witnesses that don’t testify exactly what he wants them to. This is the Democrats getting dirt on an opposing presidential candidate and the taxpayer is paying for it!

The only thing Trump was wanting was for the Ukrainian government to investigate possible corruption in their government. It just happened that Joe and Hunter Biden were involved. He was fulfilling his Constitutional duty as President of the United States of upholding the law. Unlike Biden, there was no quid pro quo involved. He didn’t demand that they investigate, he asked if they would. He didn’t withhold any funding if they didn’t.

Don’t think that it is only the Democrats that are involved in this silent coup. There are a lot of Republicans that would like to see Donald Trump taken out of office. President Trump is doing exactly what he said he would – draining the swamp, one politician at a time. Trump is not a political insider; he is a businessman. The Washington elite have so entrenched themselves in politics and the power they have that they believe they own the government. They all become extremely wealthy through their offices. How does a politician that makes between $174,000 and $210,000 get to be worth tens, even hundreds, of millions of dollars? It isn’t all on book deals and it isn’t all on the up-and-up. There are backroom deals with foreign countries, special interests, and big corporations. Trump is doing all he can to do away with all that and the elites don’t like it. They don’t want to lose their cushy jobs, their power, their control, or their money machines.

This isn’t just a silent coup against the President; it is a coup against the country, and it didn’t start with the election of Donald J. Trump. It started many decades ago. When the American people allowed the government to grow into the monster it has become is when the take-over started. When we, the people, allowed the government to slowly whittle away our rights and freedoms through legislation and regulation is where it started. It took both the Democrat and the Republican Parties to achieve what is now our over-reaching, tyrannical government. As I’ve stated over and over, each and every Democrat candidate in the 2020 campaign has openly stated their socialist policies; redistribution of wealth through high taxation, open borders, doing away with the Electoral College, stacking the Supreme Court, taking (by force if necessary) our firearms, free everything to everyone whether a citizen or not, abortion up to the day of birth, government takeover of business and private property; the list goes on and on. The worst part of it is that there are very few Republicans that are speaking out against this radical agenda.

Some would say that I am a conspiracy theorist and that I am parroting Breitbart and Fox; nothing could be further from the truth. I have listened to the candidates, the interviews with Congressmen from both parties, the speeches from both sides and have heard the words right from their mouths. I’ve researched the campaign promises, ideas, and policies that the Democrats want. I’ve listened to just how powerful four freshman Congresswomen have become and how radical their ideology is.

I’ve heard long-time Congressmen rail against Trump since before he was elected. I’ve read the news articles and heard the tapes of the wrongdoing by the Democrats and Republicans alike. There is corruption, deceit, and disloyalty to America on both sides of the aisle. What’s worse is there is crime committed by both sides and they get by with it.

As each day goes by, I hear more and more about the corruption in Washington and I become more and more frustrated. Fact be known, I become more and more fearful for my country. I fear that the rights and freedoms that were fought for 243 years ago will soon be gone. I fear that our Constitutional Republic will soon become the next Venezuela. Mostly I fear that the American people have become so complacent that they don’t care. The Millennial Generation and Generation Z don’t have the fortitude to fight for their rights. If it came down to it, I don’t know that they would know what their Constitutional rights are. What are we teaching our children these days? That they are entitled to everything without working for anything; and these are the leaders of tomorrow.

God protect us from the evils of the tyrannical dominion that is rearing its ugly head in the seat of our national government. It took a nation to win the rights and freedoms that we have enjoyed for so long. It will take a nation to gain them back. Remember: we are the rightful owners of the courts and the government. We, the People, must make sure that the government never forgets that.