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.

I Really Do Get It

I get it. I really do. For the last, almost three years the Democrat Party and the Never-Trumpers have screamed, usually at the top of their lungs, that Donald J Trump has to be impeached. Since he was ELECTED, not even sworn into office, they have not ceased their incessant rhetoric about how he has impugned the office of the Presidency, humiliated the United States, colluded with our enemies, obstructed justice, and the list goes on and on and on…. In the last debacle, other than the blatant lies about collusion, Rep. Adam Schiff read a ‘transcript’ of a phone conversation between our President and the President of Ukraine. What Schiffty Schiff read was a total fabrication. The real transcript was released, with the permission of Ukraine, and there was absolutely nothing untoward about it.

That has been the policy of the Democrats and Never-Trumpers since the beginning. It wouldn’t matter if President Trump cured cancer, world hunger, or made peace throughout the land, they would find or manufacture something to get him out of office. Why? With record-low unemployment, including historically high employment for minorities, record-high GDP, manufacturing returning to the States, historical tax cuts, fairer trade agreements with several countries, NATO members finally paying their fair share, North Korea at the bargaining table, securing our borders, building up our military, etc., why do they want to impeach and remove the President from office?

I’ll let you in on a secret: they don’t like him. The Democrat Party and Never-Trumpers hate Donald J Trump. He was not supposed to win the election in 2016. Hillary Clinton was supposed to win so she could finish the job that Barack Hussein Obama started. Trump promised a lot of things on the campaign trail just as any politician would. The biggest difference between Trump and a politician – Trump delivers on his promises. He promised a stronger, safer America. He promised economic growth, tax cuts, higher wages, and a border wall. Most of all he promised to drain the bloody swamp of Washington, DC and that is exactly what he is doing. That is why they all hate him. They, the Democrats and Never-Trumpers, are so corrupt and imbedded into the governmental quagmire that they don’t want him to out them; which is exactly what he is doing.

With all the left-wing rhetoric that has been propagandized over the last three years, Trump is showing the American people just how inept, corrupt, and useless the Congress is. From the Clinton email scandal to the Ukraine call ‘whistleblower’ he is showing just how low the Democrat/socialist/communist Party, et. al. will go to keep from being discovered. Attorney General Barr is investigating the investigators. The Mueller Investigation was a farce from the beginning. Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Strokz, Page, Clinton, Lynch, Gates, and the rest of the Trump haters will be outed. Will they be charged? Will they be tried? Will they be convicted? Will they be sentenced to a fair punishment? I hate to say it but it is doubtful. The coup crew are so well-entrenched and powerful they will escape prosecution and punishment.

The ’whistleblower(s)’ are afraid for their safety. Their attorneys are keeping them secret and refuse to let the President and the American people know who they are. Why? Do these whistleblowers have information against the Clintons? After all, Trump hasn’t had any witnesses die mysterious deaths like Jefferey Epstein committing suicide in a federal prison while under suicide watch while the temporary guards fall asleep and the cameras stop working. What are these people afraid of? It is the right of the accused to face their accuser. Just because Trump is President doesn’t mean he has given up his civil and Constitutional rights. Let the cowards show themselves so that he, and we, can scrutinize his/her/its character. It’s already be ascertained that they are connected to the far-left wing’s attorneys and political associations. George Soros is bankrolling many of these associations and probably paying for the attorneys. That is why they are afraid to show themselves. They don’t want the American people to know just who they are and that they are part of the coup against the present administration.

What do the Democrats and Never-Trumpers hope to gain by impeaching the President and removing him from office? If Trump is removed, Pence becomes President and he is behind Trump one hundred percent. Will Hillary have him offed in some way like she has so many others? Nancy Pelosi will not become President and neither will Hillary Clinton. That is what they want, though. They want to take over the country at all costs – even if they have to destroy the country to do it.

Just how are they getting away with this not-so-silent coup? Through the mass media. CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and every other media outlet, even down to Facebook, Google, Bing, etc., are behind them. Even FoxNews is becoming a mouthpiece for the left. The communist, anti-American, impeach the President, we want everything free media gives a 24/7/365 barrage of far-left-wing propaganda. ‘News’ anchors and talk show hosts ask leading questions. When guests refuse to give the left-wing answer and start talking truth, those hosts and anchors start arguing with their guests, talking over them, shutting them up. There can be no argument against the left’s agenda. There can be only one – and that one must be Hillary Clinton.

After eight years of societal decay and economic failures brought on, or continued by Barack Hussein Obama, the rebirth of America under Trump is astounding. Obama said that a one percent economic growth was the best we could ever hope for. Obama said that it would take a magic wand to bring manufacturing back into the country. Under Obama, there were over four million new recipients of food stamps. Under Obama, we were taxed to our teeth, fined for not having health insurance that was unaffordable to those that work, law enforcement was undermined, riots were just a part of societies right to protest, boy were allowed in the girl’s bathroom, our enemies were invited into the country as ‘refugees,’ our enemies were given $150 BILLION dollars cash and other currency. Our country was going downhill at a high rate of speed. It was Barack Hussein Obama’s mission to destroy our Constitutional Republic and the capitalist society that made this country great. He hated then and still hates today the United States of America.

Hillary Clinton was to continue Obama’s legacy of destruction. She was to put the final nail in the coffin and turn our freedom-loving country into a socialist/communist, open border, a government-controlled dictatorship under the guise of free elections. Trump waylaid their plans. The American people decided that the left’s agenda wasn’t for them. The American people, through the fair Electoral College, elected Donald J Trump to the White House. It was time to drain the swamp. After decades of the government taking away our rights and freedoms little by little, we, the people, decided to take our country back and make America great again. We, the People, are the rightful owners of this country and the government that sits in Washington, DC. The elected government is not all-powerful. The power belongs to the people. The Founding Fathers knew that there would come a day when the government would become so large that it couldn’t be stopped. That is why they wrote the Constitution the way they did. To limit the government and restrict its’ power.

The Democrat Party has fought against the Constitution since its’ inception. They look at the Constitution as an obstacle to be gotten around. The conservatives, the patriots, the true Americans, believe the Constitution to be a road map, a guide. Conservatives do not ‘interpret’ the Constitution to their advantage. It is the Law of the Land as written. There is no ‘interpretation’ of what the Founders and writers of that most important document meant. When it says we have the freedom of speech it doesn’t mean only if you speak liberalism. When it says we have the right to keep and bear arms and that that right shall not be infringed it means we are able to own and carry weapons. When it says we have the right to be secure in our possessions and homes it means just that. There is no interpreting what, exactly, our rights are or what those words mean. They mean what they say – period. Exclamation point. End of story.

The government demands, by law, that our children go to school. Most of our children go to a public, government-controlled, school. Why? Because private school is expensive, and it usually takes a two-income family just to pay the bills and buy food, so homeschooling is out of the question. What happens in public schools? Indoctrination. From kindergarten through college our children are inundated with leftist ideology. There is no getting around it. We are forced to send our children there to learn what the government demands that they learn. What are they learning today? Tolerance for Islam; LGBTQ; capitalism: bad – socialism: good; America is the bad guy; history has got to be erased because it hurts someone’s feelings. Haven’t you wondered why there are so many young people that are pro-socialism? That, my friends, is why. That is what they are taught from day one in our public schools; usually by teachers that are there only for the paycheck and to promote their ideology. (I am NOT saying that all teachers are bad, only that most of them are not up to snuff.)

As the 2020 election cycle gets underway, I listen to the Democrat candidates and wonder just what planet they are from. Do they not understand that socialism has failed around the world throughout history? Do they not see what happened in the last 20 years with Venezuela? Do the celebrities and the elites outside of government think that they will be immune to the demands of the tyrannical dominion they so desperately want? Do they really think that socialism/communism is a Utopia? If so, they are less informed and mentally challenged than I thought. Once the Communists take control only the elite government officials and a handful of their favorites will have anything.

I heard an interview today on SiriusXM Patriot that explained, exactly, what the Democrats are after. I don’t remember who was being interviewed but it was someone high up in the Democrat Party and she was being interviewed on CNN. What this woman said should scare the hell out of any red-blooded American from either Party. She told the interviewer that Trump needed to be gotten out of the way as well as Pence. After that, if Trump didn’t appoint a Democrat approved Vice-President replacement, Nancy Pelosi would become President and then the Oval Office would be in the right Party’s control and there it would stay. Read that sentence again. And then once more. As the Democrats accuse Trump of being an autocrat, a dictator, and ignoring the Constitution it is they that are doing exactly that, and they have finally said it on the record. They want total control of the country with no chance of a conservative ever getting into power again.

As Brian Mudd said on the Mark Levin show tonight, “Two sides to every story. One side to the facts.” The only problem with facts is the liberal left doesn’t care about them.

It is dark and dangerous times in which we live. This is a fight for our freedoms, our liberties. If the Democrats win the White House and the Senate, we are lost. They will do away with the Bill of Rights, especially the Second Amendment. Without a way to fight back against their tyrannical rule, the Constitution will no longer exist; conservatism will no longer exist; freedom of speech – gone; presumption of innocence – gone; free elections – gone. That is their goal. The endgame is total control over the people, even our lives. If you don’t believe me, as I have reiterated numerous times, just look at Venezuela.

For those that are too young to have been taught the correct way our government should be run and how socialism/communism works, read Animal Farm or 1984. If you don’t know how to read because the school system didn’t teach you, watch The Hunger Games, The Darkest Minds, Maze Runner, even Robin Hood will show you just how a tyrannical dominion treats the citizens under their control. Hollywood predicts what is actually happening or going to happen in the near future.

Don’t believe me? Zombie movies started coming out by the dozens and then the CDC put up posters on their website stating – Don’t be a Zombie, Be prepared. Now, what is coming out in theatres from the great City of Make-Believe? Dystopian world movies such as the aforementioned Hunger Games, Darkest Minds, Maze Runner, etc. Movies where the government has total control over the people.

Patrick Henry’s statement of, “Give me liberty or give me death” resounds quite loudly in today’s world of American politics. It isn’t the British coming for our lives but our own elected officials. Remember this, Hitler did not invade Austria. They voted him in on the promises of a better life. It took the Austrians about five years to finally see what kind of monster he was. It was too late by then. Is that what will happen in our country? Will the leftist propaganda win the day with all the free stuff that is unaffordable by any standard? With a yearly budget of around $4 Trillion, the cost of the New Green Deal alone is unattainable. If you add to that free healthcare, free college, and a guaranteed income it becomes mind-boggling. The GND alone will cost approximately $9.4 Trillion a year. Free healthcare is about $4.3 Trillion and free college is around $2.5 Trillion. There isn’t enough money in the country to pay for any of it. So, will the leftists win the day, or will freedom ring true?

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.

Where Does Elizabeth Warren Stand on the Issues?

The following are a few of Elizabeth Warren's views on important issues. I will attempt to explain these, in layman's terms, as best I can so you, the reader, are able to understand what she stands for and the repercussions of her policies.

On the economy:

Ultra-Millionaire Tax on America’s 75,000 richest families to produce trillions.

So, Ms. Warren wants the taxpayer to believe that taxing the top 75k families more will produce trillions of dollars. How, exactly, does that work? Those top wage earners don't make that much. Is she going to take all their money from them and then some? If she wants to tax enough to make trillions of dollars in federal revenue, she will end up taxing everyone more and more. According to wsj.com the Treasury Dept. brought in $3.3T last year with spending at $4.2T.

According to the Tax Foundation (taxfoundation.org) the lowest percent paid was 1.5% for the lowest income earner and the top 1% paid 33.3% tax. Also, the income before taxes and after taxes (this is the really important part) is surprisingly unfair. The lowest quintile earners before taxes share of income is 3.7% but after taxes (you know, with all the refundable credits, AKA redistribution of wealth) is 7.3% while the 81^st to 99^th percentile's is 38.4% before and 35.1% after. The top 1%, 16.6% and 13.2%. Looks to me like the lowest percentile earners are getting their fair share while the top wage earners are paying for it. And Ms Warren wants to make that an even larger gap in the before and after taxes percentages.

You have to understand that those high wage earners and corporations are the ones that are paying the wages to the lower earners. Those corporations spend billions on expanding their businesses to create more jobs so more people are working and earning. I agree that corporate greed is out of hand but it isn't the businesses, themselves, that are greedy. It is the CEOs, Board members, higher management that are greedy. And let's not forget the shareholders that demand those businesses make more and more profit to give to them.

On education:

Canceling student loan debt for most college graduates, eliminating all tuition costs at public two- and four-year schools.

“The entire cost of my broad debt cancellation plan and universal free college is more than covered by my Ultra-Millionaire Tax — a 2% annual tax on the 75,000 families with $50 million or more in wealth."

According to Americanprogress.org the federal student loan debt for the country is $1.5T with another $119B in private student loan debt. Ms Warren wants to have the Federal Government pay off that debt and then make college free? I don't think those 75K families have that much money to give away along with paying for all the other things she wants them to pay for. Once again, the taxes won't just be coming from the wealthy; she will raise taxes on every working family in the nation.

On energy and the environment:

Cutting carbon pollution roughly in half by 2030 and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. As the world’s largest historical carbon polluter, the United States has a special responsibility to lead the way.

Wow! Can you believe that? How is she going to cut carbon emissions to net-zero? Along with AOC and the Squat Squad she wants to do away with internal combustion engines. Are you ready to start walking everywhere? Are you ready to quit using your AC and electric heat? Are you ready to quit buying things at the store? To cut carbon emissions to net-zero that is what it would take. Why would you have to stop buying things? It takes an internal combustion engine to power that truck down the road to deliver your iPhone, Nike's, PlayStation, Starbucks, McDonald's, etc. Electricity is produced using coal. You won't be able to own a car.

USCUSA.org reports that the US is number 2 for greenhouse gas emissions with China as being number one with almost twice the emissions as the United States.

On gun regulation:

 "As president, I will immediately take executive action to rein in an out-of-control gun industry — and to hold both gun dealers and manufacturers accountable for the violence promoted by their products. I will break the NRA’s stranglehold on Congress by passing sweeping anti-corruption legislation and eliminating the filibuster so that our nation can no longer be held hostage by a small group of well-financed extremists who have already made it perfectly clear that they will never put the safety of the American people first.”

Let's see, if gun dealers and manufacturers are to be held responsible for gun violence shouldn't auto manufacturers and dealers be held responsible for car deaths; tool manufacturers and dealers for deaths due to someone using a hammer, crowbar, screwdriver, etc.; doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies held responsible for prescription drug deaths; and maybe the government for deaths during war?

As for the NRA – there has yet to be an NRA member that has committed a gun crime. All the NRA does is stand up for the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Ms. Warren would love to disarm the people totally so that the government can take complete control over the people instead of the people controlling the government.

On healthcare:

"The Medicare for All Act of 2019 would ensure that Americans could get the care they need, when they need it, without going into debt. It would empower the federal government to negotiate prices with drug companies. And it would expand coverage to include home- and community-based long-term care services, ensuring people with disabilities can receive the care they need to stay in their homes and remain part of their communities."

Single-payer, government-controlled healthcare. That's worked so well for the vets in this country. It's also worked well in every country that uses it. People aren't rushing to Canada, the UK, Venezuela, or any other socialist country for their healthcare. They come to the US. Why? They come here because the United States has the best healthcare in the world. Is the system broken and extremely expensive? Of course, it is. Does it need to be fixed? Of course, it does. Does it take government policy to do it? Oh, HELL no! The government shouldn't be involved in anything more than protections for the country. If the US government was put in charge of the Sahara Desert within 10 years there would be a shortage of sand.

On immigration:

 "Decriminalize migration and refocus enforcement on serious criminal activity. Separate law enforcement from immigration enforcement to strengthen our communities. Remake CBP and ICE in a way that reflects our values. Create accountability for the abuse perpetrated during the Trump Era."

"End unnecessary detention. Eliminate private detention facilities. Expand the executive use of parole and invest in alternatives-to-detention."

"Establish professional, independent Article I immigration courts. Eliminate expedited removal and provide due process."

: "Reject exclusionary policies based on race, religion, and nationality. Raise the refugee cap. Affirm asylum protections."

Ok. I get it. The Democrats want to flood the country with illegals. They want to give citizenship to illegals without those individuals going through the same process as the legal immigrants have. They want to do away with ICE so that those illegals in the country don't have to worry about being deported. I get it. They want people that will vote Democrat.

There is nothing else to say about the Democrat's immigration policies. They want open borders, no American sovereignty, and the entire world to be able to come to the United States and have the American taxpayer pay for their healthcare, housing, food, and education.

On impeachment:

"Every member of Congress took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States — not to protect and defend Donald Trump. Every elected official should read the Mueller report. And once they do, they’ll see the facts are inescapable. The House should do its job and begin impeachment proceedings.

This is to the point of being laughable. The Mueller Report stated clearly that there was no collusion and no obstruction committed by Donald J Trump, his campaign, his family, or his administration.

What the Mueller Report did find is that the Clinton Campaign paid for an unverifiable dossier from a foreign spy that got it from a Russian.

The Obama DOJ lied to the FISA court to obtain warrants to spy on an opposing candidate. The FBI exonerated Hillary Clinton before she was even interviewed, for any wrongdoing by having an unsecured, private server with government emails that were hacked by the Chinese. Hillary Clinton obstructed justice by destroying over 30K emails that were subpoenaed by the Congress, then destroyed phones and computers using BleachBit and hammers and removing SIM cards.

Who all was involved in the Trump Spygate? When it all comes out in the IG report I believe the entire Obama Administration, FBI, DOJ, Clinton Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and even Barack Obama, himself, will be implicated.

If Congress was actually doing its job, it would stop investigating Trump over and over for trying to find a crime he committed and start doing something about illegal aliens, the economy, infrastructure, foreign policy, etc. If they were interested in equal justice and 'no one is above the law' they would be looking at several of their own members such as AOC, Ilan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Maxine Waters, and Frederica Wilson.

There is no equal justice in Congress. Democrats are above the law as has been proven by Hillary Clinton. There are several state officials that have been accused of some terrible crimes but aren't being prosecuted or even investigated. Brett Kavanaugh, on the other hand, is being humiliated by false accusations and Trump has been investigated since he was inaugurated for crimes he hasn't committed.

And the Democrats are demanding his impeachment. It is almost laughable.

So, these are the policies that Elizabeth Warren stands behind; the Green New Deal, open borders, disarming the American citizens, free everything for anyone, taxing the American people into poverty while paying for everyone else, and impeaching a President that has done nothing wrong. Yep! My kind of candidate. Especially since she claimed to be Native American just to get into Harvard and get her first job and then continued to claim minority status until Donald Trump called her out on it. She fits into the Democrat Party just fine.

All information on Elizabeth Warren's standing on the issues is from ballotpedia.org/Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign 2020

What the Constitution Means and What Is Happening to It

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, worshiped, 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 agencies. 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, Mohammad 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 policy 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 were 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 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 the 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; 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 citizen's 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 the 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.