We Are Still s Constitutional Republic: A Short History of the Constitution

 I have tried over the years to educate people on the Constitution and what it means, what the Founders wanted, and how it is being perverted today. I do not go into this lightly. I have read the Constitution of the United States several times and refer back to it whenever I cite it. I have read the Federalist Papers and cite them at times. I have read the Federalist Farmer's letters responding to the Federalist Papers. I have read Madison's notes that he took while the debates were going on during the Constitutional Convention. I refer to all these documents when talking about how our government was set up, how it is supposed to be run, and how our government today is not using that so-important document as written and intended. Am I a Constitutional scholar? No. I am a high school graduate with very little education above that.

I was, actually, a licensed tax preparer in Oregon for about five years. In the great state of Oregon, to become a tax preparer it is a five week course on taxes and how to prepare them. After the course, it is a five hour test covering everything you need to know to prepare individual, small business, and corporate taxes. I passed that grueling test with 15 minutes to spare and had a grade of 89%. Not the brightest bulb in the box but smart enough to please the state of Oregon.

I don't pretend to know everything. I do make mistakes. I am a Constitutional originalist that believes it is a legal document set in stone. It is the Law of the Land. A judge does not 'interpret' the law on a whim or by the political ideas of the day. Over the last almost two and a half centuries politics have changed over and over again. One administration believes one thing and the next another. Slavery was alright when the country was founded. It isn't today. It took thousands of lives and a civil war to end that. Who was the champion? Abraham Lincoln, a Republican. The Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery was ratified on 6 December 1865.

Women couldn't vote until Rep. James R. Mann (R, IL) proposed to the House in favor of the Susan Anthony Amendment allowing women the right to vote on 21 May 1919. Overwhelmingly supported by the House, Congress passed the 19^th Amendment on 4 June 1919 and the Women's Suffrage Amendment was certified on 26 August 1920.

At one point it was illegal to sell alcohol by Constitutional law. That law was revoked several years later by another amendment to the Constitution.

The winds of change never cease. To change the Supreme Law of the Land it takes a two-thirds majority in Congress and three-quarters of the States to ratify the change. The Founders didn't want to make it easy to change that document because they knew that politics changed dramatically over time and on a whim. They were not stupid by any stretch of anyone's imagination. They feared a strong central government; especially since they had just finished fighting a long war to free the colonies from just such a tyranny.

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” Declaration of Independence.

I put some of that text into bold because that is some of most important parts of the Declaration. Even before we became a free and independent nation the Founders knew that government should not be changed easily or by the winds of political climate. That is why I believe the Constitution is iron-clad, cast in stone and unchanging without a long, drawn out process to make sure that the changes being made aren't for 'light and transient causes.' Congress seems to think that the Constitution is nothing but a piece of parchment that is no longer necessary and, in some cases, a nuisance to their causes.

Presidents, at times, don't like the hindrances of the separation of powers and tend to legislate from the Oval Office through Executive Orders. Congress has used the Supreme Court to legislate that which wouldn't pass in open debate and voting in the Chambers. This is not what the Founders envisioned. Not even close. A small, weak central government with enumerated powers. All power not delegated to the Federal Government is in the hands of the individual states and, most importantly, The People of the United States.

I have listed the powers of the Government on previous blog posts so I won't do it here. Let it be said that we, the People, have been lax in our oversight of government. We have allowed the Federal Government to become bloated and all powerful. I've heard it said many, many times over my sixty-plus years: “You can't fight City Hall.” All I can say about that is; “Like Hell you can't! They work for us! Not the other way around.” Every single government employee is a direct employee of the citizens of this nation. It is our tax money that pays them. Our elected officials have only so long before it's time to re-elect them or kick them to the curb. For the non-elected employees, well, we still pay them.

There are laws that have been passed that we, the citizens, immigrants, visa-holders, and visitors to this country have to follow. We have law enforcement to uphold those laws. If you break them and get arrested, well, you won't get far by telling that sheriff, deputy, or beat cop that he's fired. It don't work like that. There are ways to make your voice be heard. Most of the time it's in a courtroom. Sometimes it's through grievances to the City Council. In the end, it is us, the citizens of the United States that hold the ultimate power. We, the People. Too bad that isn't taught in school anymore.

The school system is broken by an all-powerful government. We are forced to attend school and most times it is a government-run school. That being said, what are we taught? We are taught only what the government wants us to know. Civics isn't taught. Government isn't taught. The Constitution isn't taught. If they are, it's only in passing. It's much easier to take away things that you don't know you have. It's all written down on a piece of parchment that is 234 years old. Ratified on 21 June 1788, The Constitution of the United States of America is still the most important document in American history.

There were thirteen colonies that became the first states of the new nation. Now, 248 years later that number has grown to 50 states and several possessions (Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Island, American Samoa, Palmyra Atoll, Howland Island, Johnston Atoll, Wake Island, and a few others). The country has grown since the Revolution of 1776 but, the Constitution has not and should not. The Founders knew that their new nation would not stay confined to the original thirteen but, they also knew that there needed to be a set way to govern no matter how big the country became. It's all in there. In black and white.

In today's world if you aren't 'woke' then you are some kind of racist, misogynist, xenophobe, homophobe, transphobe, or a host of other -phobes. People don't know if they are a boy or a girl and want to be called 'they/them.' Boys are competing against girls in sports because they can't win against other boys. Men pretend to be women for reasons that are most time nefarious. Racism has made a comeback that makes the race riots of the 1950's and 1960's look like a trip to Disneyland. Major corporations are condoning and even helping indoctrinate our children into the gay/trans world whether they like it or not. Schools are perpetrating trans agenda upon any child that mentions that they don't feel like the sex they are. Critical Race Theory is being shoved down the throats of school children from a young age through college. Marxism and Socialism are being taught as the best political/economic system and Capitalism/Individual freedoms are being taught as racist and unfair.

Who is behind all this anti-America agenda? Who is forcing this ideology upon the people of the nation? Who is to blame? We, the People are to blame because we haven't stood up and asserted our God-given rights and authority over an elected government that shouldn't have the power that it does.

Please, for the sake of America, read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Federalist Papers, the Federalist Farmer, and Madison's notes. Read them till you understand just what it was that the Founding Fathers of this nation intended us to be. IF you do pick up a book that has these documents and you DO read them, please, read them carefully, intentionally, methodically, and with the idea that you were right there when they were being written for the first time. Pretend that you were involved in the debates over what should and shouldn't be in the Supreme Law of the Land. Pretend that you were standing alongside General George Washington overlooking his ragged troops, weary from fighting an almost impossible battle against an army that had never lost. Pretend that you were there when Lincoln gave his speech at Gettysburg.

Remember this, the 56 men that signed the Declaration of Independence vowed their fortunes, their honor, their very lives to a cause that became the Great Experiment – a country that was of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, and for the PEOPLE. A Constitutional Republic with an elected government that would change on a regular basis. Not a democracy because democracies always fail. But a representative government. “We are the rightful masters of government.” A. Lincoln.

The Declaration of Independence and How It's Important Today

 

During the Federal Convention of 1787, the Founding Fathers, including but not limited to, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, debated fiercely for, and against, the Constitution. They all believed that a centralized government was needed but that it should not be too powerful in its scope. Strong enough to keep the emerging nation alive and safe, yet weak enough as to not become a tyrannical, over-powerful force against the sovereignty of the several states that had just gained their freedom and liberty from just such a government.

The Declaration of Independence stated quite clearly the grievances against the rule of King George: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security,

What, exactly, were the founders talking about? What did they mean by a ‘long train of abuses and usurpations?’ What ‘absolute despotism’ were they talking about? In 1776 they were talking about the law of England and the tyranny of King George when it came to the American colonies. They went so far as to list the King’s abuses. First was his refusal to assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He forbid his governors to pass necessary and important laws until his assent was obtained, which it may, or may not, be granted. He refused to pass laws for the accommodation of large numbers of people unless those people relinquished the right of representation in the legislature.

The King called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records. He refused, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions from within. He obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary power. The made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices. He erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people. He effected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.

He combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation. He protected some by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states. He imposed taxes on us without our consent. He deprived us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury. He took away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments. He suspended our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us all cases whatsoever. He, at that time, was transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages. He excited domestic insurrection amongst us, and endeavored to bring on the inhabitant of our frontiers, the merciless savages, whose known rule of warfare, was undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

Finally, the Founders stated this: In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

What does all that have to do with what is happening today in Washington, DC? Let’s go through this step by step, clause by clause.

The Founders said that the King refused his assent to wholesome and necessary laws. That means he wouldn’t agree to those laws. What is the SCROTUS doing right now? He is refusing to agree with any law that is PRO-American. He overturned everything that Donald Trump had done to make this country what it was – the greatest country in the world. He refuses to enact laws that keep us safe, such as border security, illegal migration, deporting known criminals, etc.

Biden is openly disagreeing with governors that try to enact laws beneficial to their states, and the security of the nation. Congressmen are openly disagreeing with those that are making sanctuary cities and states illegal, abortions illegal, and going against the federal government mandates for economic disaster and collapse.

When it comes to refusing to pass laws for large numbers of people unless they give up their representation; our elected officials don’t represent Americans anymore. Their actions, and the actions of the President and Vice President, clearly are aimed at illegals more than citizens. When illegals have more rights than citizens we are not represented.

Has Joe Biden called together legislative bodies at unusual places, uncomfortable, and distant? No more so than what it always has been. What he is doing, and the Congress is wanting to do, is to make the seat of the central government a sovereign state with representatives. This is not what the Founders intended for the seat of the Federal Government. This is what makes thing seem unusual.

Do I need to get into how the government refused others to be elected? The corruption and fraud of the 2020 election is what compares to this clause. Somehow, six states stopped counting votes at approximately the same time and seemed to come up with enough votes to turn the election in favor of Joseph Robinette Biden during that time period. Pennsylvania even went against its own Constitution to change election law so that the liberal left could win. Then, no one, not even the Supreme Court, would even look at any of the evidence, hundred of videos, thousands of eyewitness accounts and affidavits, all ignored until after the certification of the electoral vote.

This goes right into the judiciary clause of the Declaration. The Deep State and the Washington establishment, career politicians refused to let the judiciary look into the election integrity. The Federal Government, Deep State, Establishment, and career politicians have allowed obvious criminality amongst themselves, such as the Clinton email scandal, the Russian collusion hoax, the illegal use of the FISA Court, the lack of presumption of innocence of any Trump ally, etc. Then goes further and includes the next clause of judges being dependent on them for their livelihoods. The far-left has many judges in their back pockets, including some Supreme Court Justices.

What has SCROTUS done since being inaugurated? Here comes the next clause! He has established many, many new offices, unnecessary for governance, as is the wont of the Democrat Party. The bigger the government, the more control government has over the people.

The military is another thing. With the modernization of weapons and the cost incurred in producing those weapons, it is impossible for the people to be equally armed. What makes this clause important today is the militarization of law enforcement. Even with the outcry for defunding the police, the elitists, politicians, entertainment personalities, and sports stars all have military equipped security. They are protected against the people while the people are not allowed to protect themselves. The attacks on the Second Amendment prove that. The government wants to disarm the people so we cannot fight back if it comes to that.

How does the clause concerning combining with others to subject us to jurisdiction foreign to our constitution? Mr. Biden, and his administration, are focusing on foreign laws to legislate against the American people. They are using UN dictates as American law, even though those dictates are expressly against the Constitution of the United States.

The Democrat Party is the party of tax and spend. Mr. Biden has said, as did every other Democrat candidate, during the campaign, and now since he has been installed as the President, that he will definitely raise taxes to highs that are unaffordable to the working man. These taxes run from income tax to capital gain tax to property tax. Why is raising taxes so important? Someone has to pay for all the Democrats programs and policies whether they want to or not. The biggest insult here is not that they are spending Trillions of dollars on helping Americans, they are spending Trillions of dollars on foreign nations, Democrat donors, unnecessary pet projects, and themselves. Trillions of dollars in debt and they want to borrow more and more to spend more and more on unnecessary things while giving the American taxpayer pennies on the thousands of dollars.

The clauses of depriving us of trial by jury and transporting us to be tried for pretended offenses comes after the ‘insurrection’ of January 6, 2021. The people that have been arrested for the pretended insurrection have been transported to Washington, DC, not given bail, not provided with a public defender, and not being brought before a judge. The ‘insurrection’ of Jan 6 was a protest against an illegitimate, corrupt, and fraudulent election. Out of the thousands that attended the Trump rally and walked to the Capitol Complex, there were about 120 people that breached the Capitol building and did damage. The majority, by far, was peaceful, respectful, unarmed, and still targeted by the far-left as criminals.

Another example of the present administration, the Deep State, Washington establishment, and the far-left depriving an American citizen of due process is what is happening with Donald Trump and his allies. Democrat Attorneys General, Democrat judges, Democrat Federal prosecutors are targeting Trump and his allies for anything they can. They have been on fishing expeditions since Trump announced his candidacy in Trump Tower back in 2015. They have targeted military leaders, such as General Mike Flynn, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Trump aides, such as Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, they even put Paul Manafort into solitary confinement to try to get him to betray Donald Trump. These people, and others, had their homes and offices raided and ransacked, personal papers confiscated, were arrested, interrogated, charged. All because they support Donald J Trump. Yet people like James Comey, Hillary Clinton, Barry Soetoro, Peter Strokz,  and a host of other high level, prominent Democrats with overwhelming evidence against them go free.

How is the Federal government taking away our charters, abolishing our laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments? Do you really need to ask that? With the government inviting millions of illegals into our country, transporting them wherever they want to go, not demanding they return to their home country to apply for asylum (mainly because 99% aren’t eligible for asylum) the government is fundamentally changing the dynamic of our voter rolls. Our laws don’t mean anything to the illegals. If they did, they would be deported immediately or jailed. Only in a Democrat controlled America can you come into the country illegally, gain legal status, and have a pathway to citizenship immediately.

This also includes the clause of transporting large armies into the nation. Do you really think those millions of unattended illegal minors aren’t going to have their parents come into the country? Do you really think those kids are just small, innocent children? Just like the influx of Somalian refugees during Obama, these are soldiers that could be used by the government against the citizens. Will they be? Only time will tell. One thing is for certain, concerning the surge of illegals into the country, the Democrat Party is hoping that each and every one of them will vote Democrat once they are given citizenship. Then again, with the attack on the electoral system, they could be voting whether a citizen or not.

The Democrat Party has been attacking the Constitution for decades. Whittling away at our rights and freedoms over the years so as not to be noticed. Now, since the power is held by the Democrats in Washington, they are attacking our fundamental rights, the right to free speech, the right to keep and bear arms, the right of due process, at an unprecedented rate, openly and joyously.

Nothing that the Washington Establishment is doing is Constitutional. Nothing they are doing is pro-America. Nothing they are doing is pro-rights, freedom, and liberty. They are turning our Constitutional Republic into a Socialist State. Centralized, all-powerful, all-controlling bloated federal government. This is what the Founders, the Patriots, fought against in 1776. This is what they warned us about in every document written in the early days of our nation. Abraham Lincoln said that America would not be taken over by an outside force but from within. The Japanese wouldn’t attack mainland USA because we had guns behind every blade of grass. The world has looked to the United States for decades for help from money to soldiers. It has been the United States that has saved the world time and again. Now, we are the ones being taken down. Unfortunately, it’s our own politicians that are doing it.

The Declaration of Independence, one of the most important documents in our national history, is as relevant today as it was 245 years ago. We declared our independence from a tyrannical dominion. Now, it’s time to declare our independence from another tyrannical dominion: the Democrat Party.

The First Amendment Give the Guaranteed Right of Freedom of Speech

The First Amendment gives the guaranteed right of freedom of speech, the press, religion, the people to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Five basic, God-given rights that the government cannot take away from us as United States citizens. These rights are not to restrict the people but to restrict the government. Congress cannot legislate any law that would restrict our rights to speak our minds verbally or written, it cannot restrict our right to assemble in public as long as there is no violence, it cannot legislate a certain religion over another, and it cannot keep us from suing the government over things we feel that the government is doing wrong.

This Amendment, ratified by the States on 15 December 1791, made sure that the experimental government of the new nation would not, could not, become a tyrannical dominion over how the people talked, wrote, worshipped, assembled, and that the people could go before the governing body and complain about how they were governing. Those founders, all the citizens of the new nation, had just fought a long and bloody war against the mightiest country in the world to free themselves from a tyrannical government that did restrict everything in their lives. Thousands died to free the colonies from King George’s iron-fisted rule over them. Wasn’t that why they came to the New World in the first place? To be free from tyranny? To be able to speak freely, worship as they pleased, and to be able to gather together without fear?

Flash forward to 2010.

Over the last 234 years, this nation has become the world’s leading power. We have become the bastion of freedom. Downtrodden people the world over want to come to the United States so they can enjoy the freedoms that we took for granted. They want to be able to speak their mind, write down their opinions for the world to read, worship whatever deity they want without worrying whether they will end up in chains, and they want to be able to assemble wherever and whenever they want for whatever reason, even to protest against the government that welcomed them in. America is the beacon in the night for a world kept in darkness.

Barack Hussein Obama, the first multi-racial President of the United States, promised ‘hope and change’ for the nation that was the ‘hope and change’ for millions of immigrants. He wanted to ‘fundamentally change the face of the nation.’ In other words, he didn’t like it the way it was. He didn’t like that America had the leading economy, that individualism was what made this country wealthy, strong, and great. He didn’t like that conservative voices spoke out against him and his policies. He didn’t like that he had to go through Congress to make his policies law. He didn’t like that law enforcement actually upheld the law against any who broke the law, including his fellow blacks. He didn’t like that when a young man, while robbing a store at gunpoint or threatening the life of law enforcement, would get shot and killed. He didn’t like anything about America; except that he had the rights that everyone else did while becoming the leader of the free world. Now that he had made it, he was going to change it.

Change it, he did. He legislated by Executive Order because Congress wouldn’t pass his unconstitutional laws. He turned his head from the violence against law enforcement and rioting by minorities. He used his position against conservatives and conservative companies by ordering his DOJ and the IRS to target those people and companies. He went around the world apologizing for America’s ‘crimes.’ He opened his arms to our enemies and spurned our allies. He invited millions of ‘refugees’ from enemy countries into the United States with little to no vetting. He changed the face of the nation from a world power, respected by everyone, to a weak, effeminate, disrespected country.

With disregard to the wants, and safety, of the people, he allowed men into the women’s bathroom. Why would he do that? His political correctness changed our vocabulary. His policy negated our freedom of speech and our right to petition against government overreach. The press became his propaganda agency. Christianity was all but outlawed. Our history was being erased, one statue at a time, one picture at a time, one book at a time. He refused to acknowledge individual greatness by saying that it took everyone to create anything, no one person ever created alone. He brought racism back in force by claiming that minorities were still oppressed by the white population. It didn’t matter that he, his partner, his pastor, his mentors, and his colleagues that were minorities had achieved greatness because of the privileges of this nation.

There are black, Hispanic, and Asian people that have achieved great things because of what this country is. People like Ben Carson, a man that was raised in poverty that became a leading neurosurgeon and on to become HUD Secretary. General Colin Powell. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Representatives Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Maxine Waters, Frederica Wilson, Elijah Cummings. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Athletic superstars such as Magic Johnson, Mohammed Ali, Jackie Robinson, ‘Refrigerator’ Perry, Tiger Woods. All these people are modern, black Americans that achieved greatness. Most were not privileged growing up. They overcame their disadvantages to gain greatness because of what America is, the greatest country in the world. Even those, such as Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson, that speak against the greatness of America can become great.

There have always been those that spoke against the country, against the President, against governmental policy, and that has always been their right. In days past, people have protested policies and unfair laws. How were those protests conducted? Peaceably. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. protested the way blacks were treated. He blocked traffic by walking down the middle of the street with hundreds, even thousands, of people with him. Were stores looted, people beaten, fires started, or lawmen killed? Not when he was there. Dr. King peaceably protested just as the Constitution says we can. Were there riots and lawlessness during those days? Of course, but Dr. King didn’t condone that behavior.

Once again flash forward to 2010 and compare the way protesters conduct themselves. Fires, looting, killings, and destruction of property are all a commonplace occurrence for today’s protests. Our right to petition the government and peaceably assemble has been taken to new levels. During the Obama Administration, law enforcement was made a target and the President did not say a word. Whole neighborhoods were destroyed by such groups as the Muslim Brotherhood, Black Lives Matter, and the Black Panthers and nothing came from the White House against these people. Why? Because they had the right to assemble, petition, and to say what they want. I really don’t think the Founders had this behavior in mind when they guaranteed those rights.

Before we became an independent nation, before the Constitution was written, before our rights were guaranteed by the government, we were controlled by a tyrant across The Atlantic Ocean. King George never set foot on American soil, yet he ruled us, by proxy, with an iron fist. The colonists, once taxed beyond what they thought was fair, went to Boston Harbor and rioted by destroying a shipment of tea. Why would they riot and destroy property? They did it to get the King’s attention. They had tried everything they could from letters to personal appearances before the King to petition their grievances. The King ignored them. They had to do something drastic.

That is one of the reasons that the First Amendment is first. We can go before the government and petition against policy and law. Are we always successful? Of course not. There are plenty of laws on the books that are unfair, unnecessary, and even unconstitutional. But, for over 200 years the people’s representatives actually represented the people. If they didn’t, they were voted out and others replaced them. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The liberal left has always deemed it their mission to subvert our freedoms. They fought against freeing the slaves. They organized the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate those that were freeing the slaves and to keep slaves indentured. They have done what they could to limit our rights and freedoms; and they have done this discreetly behind our backs, a little at a time so as not to be too conspicuous about it.

In the 50s Senator Andrew McCarthy went full steam against communism. A lot of innocent people lost their livelihoods and freedom because of an accusation of being communist. America had fought a war alongside the rest of the world to combat the threat of a communist take-over. Why would an elected official do such a thing? Why would the government limit what the people could talk about and believe in? It was because of the threat against our rights and freedoms. Communism directly goes against everything that America was built on. Was Senator McCarthy right in doing what he did? Some would say he was. Was it necessary? Some would say it was. Was it conducted in a non-tyrannical way? Absolutely not. Presumption of innocence was thrown out the door and the accused had to prove he/she was innocent; for that reason, he was wrong on all counts.

Now, flash forward to 2015 and on to the present year of 2019. Donald J Trump stood at the top of the escalator in Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for President. There were a lot of candidates on the Republican side, well-known people that had served the nation as elected officials and had done a fairly good job for the people. Why did Trump feel as though he needed to give up a billionaire lifestyle to serve as the leader of the free world? He did it because he loves this country and could see the corruption in government, and he wanted to clean it up. It was as simple as that.

What was the Democrat’s reaction to his announcement? “There’s no way that Trump could win. He won’t even get the nomination.” The nomination he got. The Democrat’s reaction to that? “He can’t win against Hillary Clinton.” Election night, 2016, the results coming in as fast as they can, and Trump is winning. The Democrat’s reaction? “Impeach him!” The “Impeach him” rhetoric has not stopped since.

The Obama DOJ used false information, bought by Hillary Clinton, to obtain warrants to spy on the Trump campaign, the Trump transition team, and the Trump Presidency. For over two years the Democrats had an investigation going to prove that Donald J Trump and his campaign colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 election. Our government, that guaranteed our rights and freedoms against such actions, unlawfully spied on Americans. The presumption of innocence was gone. The mainstream media, throughout this whole ordeal, continually ‘reported’ on the lawlessness of the Trump Train.

Freedom of the press (which today includes newspapers, television, radio, and internet social media) failed the country. The mainstream media did not report the news. They did not verify any information. They just reported rumor and opinion as the news and truth. Even Bernstein and Woodward did their best to verify what Deep Throat told them about Watergate. Not today. But the Constitution guarantees the right to a free press and freedom of speech. They could say, write, and report what they wanted. They have the Constitution behind them.

Political correctness is another form of limiting speech. With the sexual revolution of the 21^st century, there are now about a million different ‘genders’ and each one has its own name. Far-left liberals are demanding that anything connected with men can no longer be spoken. Just recently I heard on The Wilkow Majority that some university in the North East has declared that using the word “guy,” or “guys,” is offensive and is no longer allowed. Across the country there are many, many terms and phrases that cannot be spoken because of being offensive to some people.

With the freedom of speech comes the freedom to offend. It doesn’t matter whether a word or phrase is offensive to some minority, it is the freedom to speak your mind. Without freedom of speech, the right to speak your mind, there is no debate, no sharing of ideas, therefore there is no differing opinions. You are limited to one way of thinking. When government begins to limit speech, it is time to take a closer look at that government. Maybe it is time for a new revolution. With political correctness as the form of speech in today’s world, and this is not just in the United States but worldwide, the people are becoming more and more controlled.

How do we stop this limiting of speech, the irresponsibility of freedom of the press, rioters using the freedom to protest to destroy property, needing a permit to have an assembly, and the freedom to worship taken from public places? We do it with the Second Amendment.

The founders knew what they were doing way back in 1789. The knew what government could, and would, do if left unchecked. The Constitution set up the way the government would be run. The first ten amendments, The Bill of Rights, limited the power of government and guaranteed the basic rights that the Creator gave to all men. The American government has been whittling away at those rights for decades. It is just in the last 10 years that the Left has not even tried to hide that fact. Believe me, it is not just the liberal Democrats that are doing this. The conservative Republicans are just as guilty, they just continue to hide what they are doing.

As the First Amendment gave us freedom of speech, the press, to worship, petition the government, and peaceably assemble, the Second Amendment guarantees our right to keep and bear arms. This is no small thing. This amendment is not just so that Americans can go hunting every fall. This amendment guarantees that the citizens of this country can protect themselves against tyranny and take-over from enemies, whether foreign or domestic. The Founders knew that without an armed citizenry, the government could, and would, turn tyrannical. The people would be subjugated once again as they were under the rule of King George. The Second Amendment is also the only one that states clearly that it ‘shall not be infringed.’

Once a country is unarmed, it is unable to protect itself from anything. If only the government has weapons, then the government can do what it wants to the people. Without the right to keep and bear arms, we, the people, the rightful owners of the country, cannot protect ourselves from the government. Washington DC could, and would, do as it pleased. Just as with political correctness going against the freedom of speech or taking down and not allowing any Christian symbols on public property, the rest of our freedoms will go away.

Listen to the 2020 Democratic candidate’s policies. What do they want to do with the country? In a nutshell, they want to do away with the capitalistic, free market economy and make it socialistic and controlled by government. They want to open our borders to all comers regardless of who they are. They want to tax the rich into poverty and redistribute that wealth to the poor. They want to pack the Supreme Court so that they can get more liberal Justices. They want to allow abortions up to, and even after, birth. They want to eliminate the Electoral College. They want universal everything from healthcare to education to income. They want to eliminate the Second Amendment and limit the First Amendment. This is not just an opinion. These are policies coming from the mouths of the candidates; all of them.

What does that say to you? When a government wants that much control over a nation, what kind of government is it? Is it a limited government that is bound by the freedoms of the people? No. It is a dictatorship that wants total control over the people. It is what happened in North Korea, Venezuela, China, Russia, and a host of other nations that went to socialism and then on to communism. The Democrats espouse the virtues of the Scandinavian countries that have socialism. What they don’t mention is that those countries are taxed to the point of very little private ownership, limited speech, and no right to petition against the government.

It is known by the State of California that everything they don’t like should be against the law in the rest of the country. Thankfully, it is known by the rest of the country that California is full of morons. Let’s be honest, just this month the State of California outlawed plastic straws and declared the NRA a terrorist organization. They have safe places for addicts to shoot up; the homeless are defecating and urinating on the streets, there are used hypodermic needles laying everywhere; the homeless are sleeping in doorways and entering businesses begging for handouts; and tent cities are abundant. San Francisco and Los Angeles are beginning to look like third world countries and the State decides to outlaw straws instead of taking care of the major problems.

To give the devil his due, the State of California is a sanctuary state for illegals and those illegals are given free healthcare, free food, and housing; and they don’t have to worry about being deported by ICE.

What am I saying here about California and what does it have to do with the rights and freedoms of the citizens of the United States? The State of California cares more about illegal aliens and THEIR rights than about their own citizens safety and rights. It is just this type of government that makes the Bill of Rights necessary; especially the Second Amendment. What California is doing is usurping its power. Granted, what isn’t specifically enumerated in the Constitution as powers granted to the Federal Government is left to the several states. That doesn’t mean that those states can take away the rights of the citizens guaranteed by the federal Constitution which is the Law of the Land.

The State of California and the State of New York are the two most populated states in the Union and have the most representatives in Congress. Because of this these two, far-left, states have a lot of say in legislating. Thank the gods of every pantheon that regardless of what the House of Representatives try to pass, it only takes a 51 vote against any bill in the Senate to keep it from becoming law; and the Senate has only two votes per state so each state has an equal voice. That doesn’t mean that California and New York don’t try to push their far-left ideology on the rest of the nation; they do.

If you look at these two states and what is happening there you can see just how much of a failure the far-left’s ideology is. People are leaving California and New York by the hundred because of high taxes, regulations, and crime. These people are moving into mostly Red (conservative) states where the taxes are reasonable, crime exists but not prevalent, businesses thrive, unemployment is low, and people are happy. The only problem with this is that these Californians and New Yorkers take their liberal ideology with them and do their best to turn that Red state Blue. Simply put: they do their best to turn an economically prosperous, business-friendly, low crime state into what they just left.

There will come a day when the socialists gain enough support in Congress to change the nation from our Constitutional Republic into a socialist/communist state. I just hope that that day does not come in my lifetime.

They Hypocrisy of the Left and the Declaration of Independence

Let me see if I’ve got this correct. I am not going to put this in chronological order by any means. I just want to make sure that I have my facts straight.

Hillary Clinton pays Fusion GPS for a dossier from a former British spy who obtained it from the Russians. But Trump was the one colluding with the Russians.

The Obama DOJ and Intelligence Community filed false information to obtain FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. But Trump is undermining national security.

Joe Biden brags on camera about extorting the Ukrainian president, saying that he will not release $1B unless the federal prosecutor, who is investigating a company Biden’s son is part of, is fired. But Trump is the one that is accused of mafia tactics and threatening the Ukrainians, even though there is no quid pro quo.

Hillary Clinton destroys over 30K emails that have been subpoenaed by the FBI and DOJ, destroys cell phones with hammers and removes SIM cards to keep the information from becoming evidence against her. But Trump is accused of obstruction of justice.

The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives do nothing towards legislation that would help the American people, such as infrastructure, a border wall for a secure border, mass illegal immigration, anything on the economy, etc. Yet Trump is doing nothing for the people with his historically high tax cuts, over 4M off of food stamps, manufacturing jobs returning to the US, North Korea brought to the table on nuclear dismantlement, strong sanctions against Russia, Iran, and other countries out to do us harm, record low unemployment rates, historic employment for blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and women.

Since the day he was elected, the Democrats have been screaming that he needs to be impeached. Repeat, since the day he was elected. That was two and a half months before he was inaugurated. The rhetoric hasn’t stopped. After two and a half years of investigating the Russian collusion and obstruction of justice, nothing was found to be amiss. After three other investigations searching for wrongdoing, nothing has been found amiss. The Democrats, and some Republicans, are still screaming to impeach President Donald J Trump. It’s been rumored that if Trump cured cancer, the liberals would rebel because he was mistreating the tumors.

The liberals have called him a racist, xenophobe, homophobe, anti-Semite, misogynist, bigot, and a plethora of other radical labels all while he has championed extreme criminal reform (thus releasing hundreds of blacks from prison); he is one of three recipients of the Rosa Parks medal for work against racism; he dated a black woman; he is married to an immigrant; he has championed the rights of gays the world over; he is a staunch supporter of Israel the Israeli Prime Minister; he moved the US embassy to Jerusalem thus proclaiming that as the capital of Israel; should I go on?

What are the Democrats doing? Promoting racial divide and victimization of minorities; undermining legal immigration by championing for the decriminalization of illegal border crossings; agreeing with legislation against Israel; siding with radical Islamists against the Bill of Rights, women’s rights, and for pro-Muslim, pro-socialist, anti-American legislation. They don’t even hide it anymore that they are against the Constitution and The American way of life.

All the while that the Democrats have been doing everything in their power against the President, what have the Republicans done about the Democrats criminality? Not a thing. They have allowed the liberal left to undermine the power of the Presidency, the reputation of the country, the rule of law, and even common sense to go on and on without repercussions. With overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the Clinton campaign, the Obama DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, several Representatives and Senators, the Republicans just sit there and let them lie and scream and investigate and propagandize the American people against the President. They are conservatives, Americans, in name only. There have been a handful of elected officials that have stood up for the President and the American people, but in voice only. No action has been taken against anyone that has committed treason against the country.

Fifty-seven men swore their loyalty, their fortunes, their honor to the freedom of this country on July 4, 1776. By doing so, the signed their own death warrants. If the Colonies had not won the War of Independence they would have been hung for treason. Do you know why the Colonies decided to claim independence from Great Britain? Have you read the Declaration of Independence? There were thirty direct reasons, usurpations, that drove the Colonies to declare their freedom from the Empire. Several of these reasons were addressed and taken care of by enumerating them in the Bill of Rights while most were addressed and taken care of in the body of the Constitution of the United States of America.

Here are some of the grievances against King George. “He” is referring to the King.

“He has refuted his Assent to Laws,…”

“He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance,…”

“He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws…”

“He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices,…”

“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and hither swarms of Offices to harass our people…”

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.”

“He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

“For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

“For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

“… abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

“…declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.”

“He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty # Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages,…”

“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us,…”

“In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.”

These are just a few of the grievances; in my opinion the most relevant to our circumstances today. The Congress has not assented to the laws it has passed on the people and they have refused to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance (such as immigration laws, infrastructure legislation); the Congress has obstructed Justice by refusing to hold the liberal elites accountable for their crimes; the Democrats have warned the Supreme Court to rule the way the liberals want, or else (I don’t recall at this time which Representatives sent the letter to which Justice); the government has grown to an enormous size with redundant and unnecessary offices with thousands of employees that have power of the people without being elected.

To continue: our military is huge and independent of any civil authority. The National Guard is answerable to the governors, true, but the military is controlled by the federal government, which in no way represents the people anymore.

Congress has acquiesced to Islam, radical terrorists, anti-Semites, but especially to the UN, which is doing everything it can to undermine our Constitution and, most notable, disarm us against our Laws.

Just listen to the 2020 Presidential candidates. Each and every one of them wants to fundamentally change our government and abolish our most valuable laws – the Bill of Rights. They want to disarm us, free speech on if you agree with the liberal agenda, freedom of the press as long as it is anti-conservative, freedom to worship Islam but not Christianity, the presumption of innocence only if you are a Democrat… should I go on here?

The Congress and the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates have all decided that they know what is best for the American people. They know how much we should make and save and how much we need to give to them. They want to tax us into poverty, tell us whether we can use plastic straws or not (sorry, that is California, then again, they think they are the federal government), they are wanting to legislate our rights away that the Founders fought to guarantee for us.

The liberal left has said that the mass migration of illegals across our southern border is not an invasion, nor a crisis. That, in and of itself, is a lie. This mass migration is sanctioned by the liberal left and, in some cases, financed by them. These illegals will become the army of the liberal left by voting Democrat. A lot of these illegals are criminals such as MS-13 gang members, rapists, drug dealers, human traffickers, etc. Yes, it is a foreign army being transported to our shores by the liberal left.

Look at the division of the country. Look at the shootings, the murders, the riots. Who are doing these things? It sure isn’t the NRA members or staunch conservatives. The vast majority of these ‘insurrections’ are committed by far-left-wing liberals or radical Islamists. And the Democrats sit back and refuse to do anything but hammer and investigate the President. “We need more gun legislation!” “It’s all the NRA’s fault.” “Donald Trump is the main cause.”

The American people have cried out for the endless persecution to end; for Congress to do what we sent them there for – to legislate. The American people have told the Congress over and over what we want and don’t want, and the Congress does what they want regardless. We have no representation in Washington anymore. Our so-called representatives represent their own power and wealth and the wants of special interests that support their endless stay on the Hill.

We declared our freedom from a tyrannical dominion not once but twice and we won both times. As Abe Lincoln said, “Now we are engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.” Can we endure? Will we endure as a free Constitutional Republic or will we succumb to the wiles of a socialist/communist tyranny that hammers at our door?

The Left has shown what they are made of through the last almost three years. They are liars and as corrupt as any tyrannical dominion in history. They will stop at nothing and there is no depth that they won’t stoop to just to get what they want. And what do they want? All the power. All the control. All the wealth. Socialism is for the people, not the Socialists. Try to take the money or home or guns from the elites. Ain’t gonna happen, baby. That ain’t for them, only for you.

With the facts laid out in front of you; with the evidence against the accusers; will you stand by your country or go with the crowd of entitled miscreants that believe the world owes them? This country was built on guts, risk, uncertainty, and a lot of belief in oneself. The Founders, the Colonists, the Frontiersmen, all had nothing handed to them. They worked hard for what they had and if they didn’t – well, they didn’t survive. They relied on no one but themselves for their well-being and that is the way it should be now.

With all the corruption in Washington, DC, don’t you think it’s time to take back our country? Don’t you think that the one man that is doing everything he can for us should be helped instead of hindered? With all the good that the President has done with everyone against him, just think where we would be if he had Congress behind him, helping him? The sky is the limit, people. We don’t need more career politicians. We need patriotic Americans to represent us. As King Edward said about Scotland in the late 13^th century, “The only wrong with Scotland is it’s full of Scots.” Well, the only thing wrong with politics is it’s full of politicians. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Washington, DC is proof of that, as is Venezuela, China, North Korea, Soviet Russia, the Middle East, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, etc.

How Relevant is the Declaration of Independence?

Let me see if I’ve got this correct. I am not going to put this in chronological order by any means. I just want to make sure that I have my facts straight.

Hillary Clinton pays Fusion GPS for a dossier from a former British spy who obtained it from the Russians. But Trump was the one colluding with the Russians.

The Obama DOJ and Intelligence Community filed false information to obtain FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. But Trump is undermining national security.

Joe Biden brags on camera about extorting the Ukrainian president, saying that he will not release $1B unless the federal prosecutor, who is investigating a company Biden’s son is part of, is fired. But Trump is the one that is accused of mafia tactics and threatening the Ukrainians, even though there is no quid pro quo.

Hillary Clinton destroys over 30K emails that have been subpoenaed by the FBI and DOJ, destroys cell phones with hammers and removes SIM cards to keep the information from becoming evidence against her. But Trump is accused of obstruction of justice.

The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives do nothing towards legislation that would help the American people, such as infrastructure, a border wall for a secure border, mass illegal immigration, anything on the economy, etc. Yet Trump is doing nothing for the people with his historically high tax cuts, over 4M off of food stamps, manufacturing jobs returning to the US, North Korea brought to the table on nuclear dismantlement, strong sanctions against Russia, Iran, and other countries out to do us harm, record low unemployment rates, historic employment for blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and women.

Since the day he was elected, the Democrats have been screaming that he needs to be impeached. Repeat, since the day he was elected. That was two and a half months before he was inaugurated. The rhetoric hasn’t stopped. After two and a half years of investigating the Russian collusion and obstruction of justice, nothing was found to be amiss. After three other investigations searching for wrongdoing, nothing has been found amiss. The Democrats, and some Republicans, are still screaming to impeach President Donald J Trump. It’s been rumored that if Trump cured cancer, the liberals would rebel because he was mistreating the tumors.

The liberals have called him a racist, xenophobe, homophobe, anti-Semite, misogynist, bigot, and a plethora of other radical labels all while he has championed extreme criminal reform (thus releasing hundreds of blacks from prison); he is one of three recipients of the Rosa Parks medal for work against racism; he dated a black woman; he is married to an immigrant; he has championed the rights of gays the world over; he is a staunch supporter of Israel and the Israeli Prime Minister; he moved the US embassy to Jerusalem thus proclaiming that as the capital of Israel; should I go on?

What are the Democrats doing? Promoting racial divide and victimization of minorities; undermining legal immigration by championing for the decriminalization of illegal border crossings; agreeing with legislation against Israel; siding with radical Islamists against the Bill of Rights, women’s rights, and for pro-Muslim, pro-socialist, anti-American legislation. They don’t even hide it anymore that they are against the Constitution and the American way of life.

All the while that the Democrats have been doing everything in their power against the President, what have the Republicans done about the Democrats criminality? Not a thing. They have allowed the liberal left to undermine the power of the Presidency, the reputation of the country, the rule of law, and even common sense to go on and on without repercussions. With overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the Clinton campaign, the Obama DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, several Representatives and Senators, the Republicans just sit there and let them lie and scream and investigate and propagandize the American people against the President. They are conservatives, Americans, in name only. There have been a handful of elected officials that have stood up for the President and the American people, but in voice only. No action has been taken against anyone that has committed treason against the country.

Fifty-seven men swore their loyalty, their fortunes, their honor to the freedom of this country on July 4, 1776. By doing so, they signed their own death warrants. If the Colonies had not won the War of Independence they would have been hung for treason. Do you know why the Colonies decided to claim independence from Great Britain? Have you read the Declaration of Independence? There were thirty direct reasons, usurpations, that drove the Colonies to declare their freedom from the Empire. Several of these reasons were addressed and taken care of by enumerating them in the Bill of Rights while most were addressed and taken care of in the body of the Constitution of the United States of America.

Here are some of the grievances against King George. “He” is referring to the King.

“He has refuted his Assent to Laws,…”

“He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance,…”

“He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws…”

“He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices,…”

“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and hither swarms of Offices to harass our people…”

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.”

“He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

“For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

“For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

“… abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

“…declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.”

“He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty # Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages,…”

“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us,…”

“In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.”

These are just a few of the grievances; in my opinion the most relevant to our circumstances today. The Congress has not assented to the laws it has passed on the people and they have refused to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance (such as immigration laws, infrastructure legislation); the Congress has obstructed Justice by refusing to hold the liberal elites accountable for their crimes; the Democrats have warned the Supreme Court to rule the way the liberals want, or else (I don’t recall at this time which Representatives sent the letter to which Justice); the government has grown to an enormous size with redundant and unnecessary offices with thousands of employees that have power over the people without being elected.

To continue: our military is huge and independent of any civil authority. The National Guard is answerable to the governors, true, but the military is controlled by the federal government, which in no way represents the people anymore.

Congress has acquiesced to Islam, radical terrorists, anti-Semites, but especially to the UN, which is doing everything it can to undermine our Constitution and, most notable, disarm us against our Laws.

Just listen to the 2020 Presidential candidates. Each and every one of them wants to fundamentally change our government and abolish our most valuable laws – the Bill of Rights. They want to disarm us, free speech only if you agree with the liberal agenda, freedom of the press as long as it is anti-conservative, freedom to worship Islam but not Christianity, the presumption of innocence only if you are a Democrat… should I go on here?

The Congress and the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates have all decided that they know what is best for the American people. They know how much we should make and save and how much we need to give to them. They want to tax us into poverty, tell us whether we can use plastic straws or not (sorry, that is California, then again, they think they are the federal government), they are wanting to legislate our rights away that the Founders fought to guarantee for us.

The liberal left has said that the mass migration of illegals across our southern border is not an invasion, nor a crisis. That, in and of itself, is a lie. This mass migration is sanctioned by the liberal left and, in some cases, financed by them. These illegals will become the army of the liberal left by voting Democrat. A lot of these illegals are criminals such as MS-13 gang members, rapists, drug dealers, human traffickers, etc. Yes, it is a foreign army being transported to our shores by the liberal left.

Look at the division of the country. Look at the shootings, the murders, the riots. Who are doing these things? It sure isn’t the NRA members or staunch conservatives. The vast majority of these ‘insurrections’ are committed by far-left-wing liberals or radical Islamists. And the Democrats sit back and refuse to do anything but hammer and investigate the President. “We need more gun legislation!” “It’s all the NRA’s fault.” “Donald Trump is the main cause.”

The American people have cried out for the endless persecution to end; for Congress to do what we sent them there for – to legislate. The American people have told the Congress over and over what we want and don’t want, and the Congress does what they want regardless. We have no representation in Washington anymore. Our so-called representatives represent their own power and wealth and the wants of special interests that support their endless stay on the Hill.

We declared our freedom from a tyrannical dominion not once but twice and we won both times. As Abe Lincoln said, “Now we are engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.” Can we endure? Will we endure as a free Constitutional Republic or will we succumb to the wiles of a socialist/communist tyranny that hammers at our door?

The Left has shown what they are made of through the last almost three years. They are liars and as corrupt as any tyrannical dominion in history. They will stop at nothing and there is no depth that they won’t stoop to just to get what they want. And what do they want? All the power. All the control. All the wealth. Socialism is for the people, not the Socialist. Try to take the money or home or guns from the elites. Ain’t gonna happen, baby. That ain’t for them, only for you.

With the facts laid out in front of you; with the evidence against the accusers; will you stand by your country or go with the crowd of entitled miscreants that believe the world owes them? This country was built on guts, risk, uncertainty, and a lot of belief in oneself. The Founders, the Colonists, the Frontiersmen, all had nothing handed to them. They worked hard for what they had and if they didn’t – well, they didn’t survive. They relied on no one but themselves for their well-being and that is the way it should be now.

With all the corruption in Washington, DC, don’t you think it’s time to take back our country? Don’t you think that the one man that is doing everything he can for us should be helped instead of hindered? With all the good that the President has done with everyone against him, just think where we would be if he had Congress behind him, helping him? The sky is the limit, people. We don’t need more career politicians. We need patriotic Americans to represent us. As King Edward said about Scotland in the late 13^th century, “The only thing wrong with Scotland is it’s full of Scots.” Well, the only thing wrong with politics is it’s full of politicians. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Washington, DC is proof of that, as is Venezuela, China, North Korea, Soviet Russia, the Middle East, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, etc.