Crime in Government and Our Diminishing Rights

Governmental overreach. This is something that the Constitution of the United States is supposed to keep from happening. The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to that Constitution, were put into place to secure the most basic of human rights and guarantee that they would not be taken from us by a tyrannical government.

What has happened over many decades is exactly what the Founding Fathers feared would happen and tried to prevent. The elected officials of this great nation have become so powerful, so embedded into the system, that they have no fear of repercussions of their crimes against the country and the citizens of the country. At one point these crimes were concealed from view, committed discreetly behind closed doors. Today, it is open for all to see but lied about and claimed to be committed by the opposition party. This is done by BOTH of the major parties, not just one.

What is happening to make me say such things? Open your eyes and see, my fellow Americans. A hundred and fifty years ago we could hunt and fish without needing a permit/license; we could build a shed, a barn, a house, without permits or governmental oversight; we could start and run a business without permits and taxes; we weren't taxed into poverty. Rules, regulations, and laws that we, the people, are controlled by are the sole responsibility of the Congress. It seems as though that has gone by the wayside as agencies such as the EPA, DNR, Commerce Department, etc. institute new rules and regulations on a daily basis without Congressional debate, vote, or approval. Well, obviously they approve but there are countless 'laws' on the books that Congress has not debated or voted on. These are NOT laws. Only CONGRESS has the power to legislate. Yet, here we are, forced to follow mandates, edicts, rules, regulations, etc. that have not gone through the legislative process.

Do we still have the right to free speech, to worship as we please, to PEACEFULLY protest, and does the honest press still have the right to report the truth? It seems that these guaranteed rights only belong to those that follow the agenda of the far-left. There are still over 500 people, American citizens, that are being held in DC jails without bail or access to legal counsel simply because they attended a Trump rally. They haven't even been charged with a crime. They peacefully protested outside the Capitol Complex. The rioters, looters, arsonists, and those that committed assault on innocent bystanders and police, are still free. Christianity has become ostracized and Islam is protected, and only far-left agenda stories are allowed to be printed as proven by the Hunter Biden laptop story being kept from the American people to insure the installation of a mentally challenged geriatric into the White House.

Do we still have the right to keep and bear arms as is expressly guaranteed by the Second Amendment? There were no constraints written into that amendment. None. It doesn't say anything about only if you carry so many rounds, only if you aren't a felon, only if you are a perfect citizen, only if it looks a certain way. It says: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” This has become a big debate across the nation. Why do people need guns when the police have them? Why do you need 30 rounds to go deer hunting? Why do you need a scary looking rifle? My answer to that is: why do you care? When the Founders stated 'a well regulated Militia' you have to take into account just WHO that Militia was at the time. It wasn't a government owned and operated organization. It was the PEOPLE of the colonies and the newly formed free country. That is why the last part of this amendment is so important and why it is the most repeated: the right of the PEOPLE... The Founders had just fought a war against a tyrannical dominion and wanted to insure that it would not happened again.

Do I want violent criminals to be able to carry concealed weapons? Do I want terrorists to be able to do the same? Let me ask you this: do you want one Constitutionally guaranteed right limited for a false sense of security or do you want to keep those rights protected for real liberty? It doesn't matter how many laws are enacted. It doesn't matter that government and police are armed to the teeth. Criminals don't care about laws. Terrorists don't care about laws. Crime still happens; as does terrorism. Chicago, the most anti-gun city in the country has the most gun violence. Statistically, every city and state that has the strictest gun laws are the most violent. Why is that? Maybe because the people aren't allowed to protect themselves and the police are hamstrung because of leftist rules and anti-law enforcement rhetoric.

How about protection from illegal search and seizure? Writ of habeus corpus? The right to legal counsel? Better yet: how about the rule of law? In most criminal cases there is a crime with, or without, a known perpetrator. In the case of Donald J Trump, and a lot of his followers, the government has a ton of perpetrators without a crime. Our elected officials are desperately searching for something, anything, to charge Donald Trump with. They tried Russian collusion and only found that it was the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and, possibly, Hilary Clinton, herself, that were the perpetrators. They impeached Trump twice just to find that he was innocent of all charges. I know, the left will swear that he was guilty and was let go but that isn't what happened. Has Trump been allowed equal protection under the law? Has he been presumed innocent until proven guilty? Not by a long shot! The left and the rest of those career politicians that are at risk of losing their power and wealth have gone after him with a vengeance. Only one other American President was persecuted to this extent and that pales in comparison.

Trump supporters, MAGA people, patriotic Americans that believe in the Constitution and our rights and freedoms have been declared domestic terrorists by the POTUS, a man whose own son sold access to for our enemies and other foreign powers. Joseph R Biden, Jr has proven over and over, since 21 Jan. 2021 that he has no interest in America. He shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline almost before the inauguration was over. He opened the southern border to millions of illegals to enter unencumbered. He has destroyed our economy. Where Trump had made us energy independent, Biden has put us back under the thumb of OPEC, our enemies. The list goes on but the gist of it is that the one person that had made America great again, has been persecuted while those that are doing the persecution are the ones actually destroying our country.

The far-left scream daily how conservatives, the MAGA people, and Republicans (if there were any actual Republicans) are destroying our 'democracy.' Hate to tell you but this country is not, nor ever has been, a democracy. Democracies fail, miserably just as Socialism and Communism do. We are a Constitutional Republic. Our representatives are democratically elected by popular vote. Our President is elected by the Electoral College which ensures that the WHOLE of the nation, not just a small, highly populated area is represented. Our 'democracy' is in no way being destroyed or in any danger of being destroyed by the conservatives and patriotic Americans that believe in the Constitution, as written and intended, and the Bill of Rights.

As I've stated, our rights and freedoms are being taken away, little by little, by people that are not elected and are not hurt in any way by their decisions. Even Congress has no vested interest in the laws they enact. They aren't forced to use ObamaCare, they have their own healthcare provided by the taxpayers. They don't care whether there is any social security left in the Treasury, they have their own retirement paid for by the taxpayer. They really don't care what kind of violence they incite by their speeches because they are protected by their position. They build their walls around their homes and the Capitol Complex to protect themselves yet leave the southern border wide open leaving we, the people, powerless to protect ourselves.

Think about this, while Congress is saying that it is the humanitarian thing to do to let all these illegals in and let them go where they may because they are such great assets to our country, when they end up in the midst of the elite, as Ron DeSantis made sure by sending 50 to Martha's Vineyard, those illegals become problems and can't be taken care of. Only the 'Red States,' the conservative centers, are able to handle the millions of invaders. Nancy Pelosi had several arrested that breached the walls around her home. No, the elites don't care one iota about the people.

The Founders knew that this would be attempted and did everything they could to prevent it. The Constitution was written as it was because of months of debate and public opinion. The newly formed nation wanted to make sure that they, and future generations, weren't subjected to the tyranny that they had been under the rule of King George. Now, because of decades of indoctrination and anti-American rhetoric in our government run schools, we elect that tyranny into office and keep it there. We vote to have our rights and freedoms taken away from us. We allow the Constitution to be shredded on a daily basis and used as a weapon against us.

The Constitution of the United States was written to protect the CITIZENS of the United States. It was never intended to protect illegals, foreign terrorists, foreign nations, etc. It is BY, FOR, and OF the People of the United States. Because of our complacency and lack of knowledge and understanding of our founding documents, we have allowed a tyrannical dominion to overtake our land. The sad part is that there are millions of citizens that believe in the tyranny, that support the tyranny, and embrace the tyranny. Why? Because they have been indoctrinated into believing that only government knows best how we should live our lives.

Hitler did not invade Austria. He was ELECTED into office. It took the Austrians five years to actually see what kind of monster the man was. Once the damage is done, it is almost impossible to repair. Can Venezuela regain its wealth and prosperity? It will take decades, if not centuries to do so. How about North Korea? Vietnam? China? Russia? Can the millions of citizens of those countries that were murdered come back? The millions of Jews and Germans that Hitler slaughtered simply because of their heritage, their religion, their belief in freedoms, can never be brought back. Socialism is the first step to Communism. Communism is tyranny and complete government control. If you think that American socialism will be any different than any other time in history because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can 'do it right,' then you, my friend, are completely indoctrinated and fully brainwashed. There is no 'right' way to do socialism. It always becomes tyranny with death, destruction, and chaos. You can vote it in but you have to fight your way out. Ask any Venezuelan. Ask an Austrian that survived Hitler. Ask any Chinese that survived Mao. Talk to any Russian immigrant that grew up under the Soviet Union's rule. There are still people out there that know what happens. All you have to do is ask.

I have talked with WWII survivors from Germany. I have talked to Koreans. I have talked to Russians that grew up in Soviet Russia. I have talked to people from El Salvador, Guatemala, Palestine, Israel. I have studied history, true history, of the Soviet Revolution, American Revolution, Custer's last stand, the Trail of Tears, the Vietnam Conflict, the Korean Police Action. There is never a completely good guy and a completely bad guy. There are only the two sides of the equation. The good, the bad, and the indifferent are all co-conspirators in a battle for power. Was the American government the good, or bad, guy while taking the land from the Indians? Was Custer on the right side or were the Indians? Who were the righteous ones in Vietnam and Korea?

The American government has singularly decided, over many decades, just who is right and who is wrong throughout the world. Was Hitler bad? He was a murderous maniac. Was Mao just trying to unify his country? Were the white Europeans really just trying to help the red Indians become 'civilized' and have a better life? It's all up for a long debate over a bottle of Scotch. That is unless you are a conspiracy theorist that believes there is a secret society that actually runs the governments of the world, controls the world monetary system, incites wars and decides who will win and who will lose.

Our rights, guaranteed, not granted, by the Constitution are fast diminishing. A hundred and fifty years ago there were no restrictions on how we lived, what we did to survive, support, and protect our families. Today, everything we do is taxed, regulated, controlled, permitted, etc. by the government. Who, exactly, gave the government this power over us? Who said, “OK, big government, I want you to make me buy a permit to hunt and fish so that you can profit off my family's survival?” Who said, “OK, big government, I want you to tell me how to build my home?” Who said, “OK, big government, I want you to regulate everything I do?”

It wasn't any red-blooded, patriotic American citizen now was it? Yes, it was. Every person who has been eligible to vote in the last 150 years is guilty. But... but.... but... I wasn't even alive that long ago! It wasn't me that did that! Yes, it was. Not then, but now. When was the last time an American citizen, either Democrat or Republican, voted against an incumbent? It doesn't matter if it is the President of the United States or the dog catcher of your home town? When was the last time you researched the voting record of your US Congressman or even your State Legislator? Do you even know what they voted for or against? Or, do you, as as proud, responsible, dedicated Democrat/Republican just vote “D” or “R” or just against someone you don't like or vote for because of the color of their skin?

Oh, yeah! I went there. How many people voted for Barack Hussein Obama simply because he was multi-racial? Far too many. I've talked to plenty of black folks that said they voted for him because he is black. They didn't care what he campaigned on, what he promised to do, what he did... no, all they cared about was that he was black. Oprah Winfrey, god bless her little pea-pickin' heart, never openly supported any candidate until Barry Sotoero. Why? She supported him because he is 'black.' Barry is half white. His mother is/was (I don't know if she is still alive or not) white. His father was a Kenyon, a foreign national. That makes Barry multi-racial, not black.

To go further into this: Barry enlisted into college as a FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENT in at least one college. To all you Obama supporters, I don't recall where I saw it but I believe it was found out by our favorite Arizona sheriff. Barry, also, never legally changed his name to Barack Hussein Obama after he decided that Barry Sotoero wasn't African enough. His mentors were, as was his father, anti-American Muslims. Do you remember when he stood at the podium and said, “If you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims?” How about- if you attack one American you attack all Americans? Barry Sotoero was the greatest farce perpetrated on the American people, until Joe Biden.

Barry destroyed more of our rights and freedoms, blatantly put targets on the backs of law enforcement, incited racism to a point far exceeding that of the 1950's and 60's, weakened America's military, embraced our enemies and spat in the face of our allies, bowed to a foreign power, aided and abetted our enemies by giving Iran billions in cash and weapons, and most heinously, embedded Islamic terrorists into American society in the guise of refugees and gave them citizenship so they could run for political office, which they have.

This is just one example of how we, the people, are guilty of allowing the destruction of the Constitution and our rights and freedoms. We have voted for, not against, corruption by re-electing incumbents regardless of what they've done, or not done. By pushing the “D” or “R” without researching what each candidate really stands for, we are guilty. By voting for the other guy because Orange Man Bad, we are guilty. By continuing to vote for representatives simply because we already know what they are and know nothing about the new guy, we are allowing bills to be passed with so much pork, add-ons, and things that wouldn't make it through the process without putting it in something that is needed. Not holding our representatives accountable to our wishes is the greatest crime.

The taxpayers of this country spend trillions of dollars on foreign nations, frivolous projects, etc. and we don't even know anything about it. Why? Because those bills are thousands of pages long, written in Congressional legalese so as not to be easily understood. All we know is what they want us to know about those bills. And, sometimes, what we're told isn't even a fraction of what the whole bill is about. Yet, we keep voting for the corruption, the deception, the loss of our rights and freedoms, and our own enslavement to the system. All the while, those elected elites live high off the hog, unencumbered by the very laws they pass to enslave us. All at the expense of us, the American taxpayer. It's so easy to spend other people's money and take away what they don't even know they have.

Time to wake up, America. Time to start the reconstruction of the greatest nation on the planet. Time to get rid of the corruption and deception. Time to get rid of career politicians and replace them with people that can be held accountable. Time for those career criminals to be brought to justice. How about treating them the way those 500+ patriots have been treated for almost two years in DC jails? Held without bail, access to legal counsel, or accused of a crime. Just because those elected officials are just that, it doesn't mean they are better than the rest of us. In fact, you have to understand that they are OUR employees. We pay them to represent OUR wants, needs, and wishes; not their own power and wealth. They are nothing but public servants and we, the people, are their rightful masters. When the country finally gets that through its head, then, and only then, will we become what the Founders created.

I know that I sound like a record that keeps repeating itself. I have found over the years that repetition is the only way to get people to understand anything. The far-left understands this. That is why, day after day, all day long, for over four years you heard Orange Man Bad, Donald Trump is a criminal, we need to impeach DJT, and Trump Derangement Syndrome was pushed down our throats. They know that if they repeat something enough the country will believe it, understand it, and never forget it. Even now, two years after he left office, the left is still doing it. They are still persecuting Trump and the indoctrinated believe in them. It is still being pushed down our throats that Orange Man Bad. Why? My opinion? Because he is the only person that actually stood up to them and brought their corruption into the light. Not just of the left but of the right, also.

Yes, I said it. There are plenty of so-called Republicans that are just as corrupt. Mitch McConnell is one of them. Did you know that his in-laws own the major shipping company in China? Yep! That shipping company is basically owned by the Communist Chinese government. How long has that geriatric been in office? He has so much power over the people of Kentucky that he doesn't have to worry about not getting re-elected. He'll just buy the office as he's done over the past few election cycles. After all, the Chinese need to control our representatives and he is one of the most powerful. Way to go, Kentucky! Keep voting that compromised asshole into office.

There are a handful, a small handful, of people in Congress that actually want what is right for America and Americans. You could probably count them on one hand with fingers left over. Josh Hawley, Jim Jordan, and Dan Crenshaw come to mind. Trey Gowdy was good when he was in his investigations but as a Representative he was a little wishy-washy. Lindsay Graham is the same. He goes whichever way is best for him. How about Iowa's Chuck Grassley? He puts on a good show and works hard for Iowa but, when it comes to what is best for the nation, well, his record isn't exactly untarnished.

There are even a few Democrats that work for the good of the country. Tulsi Gabbard, and Joe Manchin are a couple of them. Yes, they are liberal but not to the extent of the far-left radicals. I would have no problem voting for either of them if the Republican candidate showed signs of extremism, either left or right. Moderate is where a candidate has to be. My representative has to know what is best for the country, not just my state, but not go overboard on any legislation. Gabbard and Manchin do that. Yes, they vote liberal but also know when to go against Nancy & Co. and their anti-American policies.

Do you see what I'm trying to get across? Research the candidates. Know how they vote. Get an understanding of where they are politically, socially, economically. If they aren't pro-America, they shouldn't be elected to office. When that happens we get people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Aiyanna Pressely, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Cory Booker, Adam Schitt, etc. What's worse, we end up with a Commander in Chief like what was installed on Jan 21, 2021.

You have to remember that these people believe that they are above us, the common folk, the citizens. They are not! They need to be reminded of that every two/six years. There should never be a political race that isn't up for grabs to the best candidate. Incumbents become powerful. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That is sorely evident in our Congress today. Too many have been there far too long and become far too powerful.

I believe I have rambled long enough. I tend to repeat myself far too much and get off topic far too easily. That is why I titled my blog Rants and Ravings from a Twisted Mind. My beliefs are out there and vocalized often. I am a Constitutional Conservative with Libertarian tendencies. I do my best to think for myself and not go along with the mob. I have changed my mind on a few subjects after debating with others but it is not as often as they would like. All you have to do is prove to me that my way of thinking is wrong. Most cannot do it. As Andrew Wilkow likes to say, “The arguments on this show cannot be broken.”

Would You Like to Play a Game

“Would you like to play a game?”

This could be the most terrifying question if it's being asked by a puppet on a tricycle. Picture this: The head on that puppet is the current occupant of the White House, his second in command, the current Speaker of the House, or even the Senate Minority Leader. What would be your thoughts then?

That is exactly what is happening. Jigsaw Joe Biden & Co. are asking us, the American citizens, if we would like to play his sick little game of Destroy America First. It started with shutting down the Keystone XL Pipeline; gone are thousands of good paying, Union jobs and the jobs of those that serviced those workers (such as restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations, etc.). Next was undoing the rest of what Trump had accomplished to make this country what it once was: prosperous, strong, independent, secure.

In less than 18 months in office, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr, tanked the stock market, raised prices on almost everything, increased taxes, condoned an invasion of illegal aliens across the southern border, increased the political persecution of Trump, his associates, and his supporters, aided and abetted our enemies, and kept his drugged up, loser of a son from being prosecuted for his crimes against the country, all the while keeping law abiding, peaceful protesters incarcerated in jail without bail or access to attorneys.

To be fair, he has 'created' millions of jobs that were ended with the Coronavirus plannedemic farce. As for the stock market, well, it's been a hell of a couple of years with that oh-so-important organization looking like a roller-coaster track. All I know is that in the last year, my portfolio has fallen by over ten thousand dollars (a loss of more than 10 percent) and my crypto is basically non-existent. So, tell me again how QuidProChina-owned Joe is doing me such a great job!

Let' play his game of life and death of our rights and freedoms. Keep on keeping on, Uncle Joe! The American People are tired of the woke, anti-American, far-left radical, bull shit that you're pushing down our throats. We don't like our children being indoctrinated into the gay/trans world and we don't believe in Critical Race Theory. As far as BLM: the only times that black lives matter to Democrats is when it's time to vote!

As the radical left are virtue signaling against racism, xenophobia, homophobia, etc., no one but them, and their brainwashed, lazy, do-nothing followers, are the only ones that are screaming this shite. The same with climate change. As drunken Nazi Nancy stated at a press conference, “We own the science.” Yep! That's why the 'science' says exactly what you want it to. Ask REAL scientists and researchers that AREN'T government funded about all this stuff. Climate change has been happening to this planet since it was created. Coronavirus is a hoax. Racism, although there are racists in every culture, is only being practiced by the ones screaming racism (the far-left radicals). The American economy cannot handle the millions of illegals that continue to pour across the border unchecked. And foreign oil is not nearly as clean as American oil.

And the game gets underway. It actually started years ago; when politicians decided that running for office was the way to gain more power and wealth for themselves. Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and a few others actually did not want the job of President. They took it as part of their duty and for the good of the new nation. Now, politicians spend ten, fifteen, thirty, fifty times what they will earn in office just to get that office. Some even cheat to win. Votes are bought by making empty promises and offers to do favors. Politics is not a game for the weak of heart. It is cut-throat and dog eat dog. But, it is a game, none the less.

Imagine if you will, a Presidential candidate that campaigns almost entirely from his basement. This candidate didn't really have all that much support and his running mate had absolutely no support. His rallies consisted of a couple of dozen people spaced 6 feet apart. His promises of 'freebies' from the federal government are unsustainable and will cost the taxpayers trillions of dollars over several years. He has promised to kill jobs by ending our energy independence but replacing those jobs with imaginary ones in a different field, which the jobless will not be trained for. Over the course of the 'election season' (it has to be many days and weeks because of the impracticality of a lot of voters not being able to make it to the actual polls to vote on election day) millions of harvested ballots, mail-in ballots, third-party controlled dropped site ballots, and magically appearing in the middle of the night ballots all are for this candidate that did very little campaigning.

This candidate has been in politics his entire life. He has served for over 40 years in the federal government and his views on things like racism, immigration, segregation, etc. are well documented as being the exact opposite of what he is saying his views are now. His record on foreign affairs is dismal at best. To top it all off, his mental acuity is questionable. He has a hard time completing coherent sentences. His memory is almost gone. He balance is off.

This candidate wins an election against the incumbent that has raised wages, lowered taxes, given us energy independence and even energy exportation, has record employment for minorities and women, record low unemployment, enhanced the standard of living for all, especially blacks and minorities. Enacted fair trade deals with foreign nations. Retrieved POW/MIA/KIA American soldier's bodies. Stopped North Korea from nuclear arms testing. The incumbent is the ONLY American President to cross the North/South Korea border into North Korea and met with Kim Jung Un; Alone. The incumbent won more votes from minorities and women the second time than he did the first.

All of the pluses of the incumbent and this candidate wins more votes than Barack Hussein Obama, winning the election by ten million votes. The strangest part of this is that when the election is questioned it is called 'trying to overthrow an election.' If the 2020 election was so fair and honest why should it not be investigated? It should stand the test of review quite easily. Instead, the voting machines were off-limits, the questionable state's results were off-limits. Any investigation was off limits. Is this the way an honest election is done? And the game continues.

Every nation on Earth has borders. Every nation has immigration laws and punishments for breaking those laws from imprisonment to death. That is except for the United States. The present administration has opened our borders to an invasion of millions of unknown throngs of people of all ages. There is no repercussions for crossing our borders illegally. In actuality, these illegal migrants are given special treatment. They are given free health services, food, and shelter. They are transported anywhere in the country they choose. They are given driver's licenses and, in some states, given the right to vote in elections. No where on Earth is this done. No where but here. Who is the architect of this policy? Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. The candidate described above.

Instead of being an energy exporter, now we are back to begging our enemies for oil at huge cost. OPEC doesn't give us what we want, they sell us, at huge profits, what they want us to have. We are supplying Ukraine with weapons and ammo for their war against the Russian invasion to the point where, if we are attacked, we couldn't defend ourselves. Half the country has been declared domestic terrorists by the President of the United States simply because we believe in the Constitution, our rights and freedoms, and support the MAGA policies. Wasn't there a World War that happened because another megalomaniac decided the same thing?

The United States of America has been at the forefront of the fight against tyranny since its inception. We fought two World Wars, fought in a conflict and a police action, engaged in the downfall of a Middle Eastern tyrannical regime. We have fought against Communism, Socialism, radical Islamic terrorism, and any other form of tyranny against basic human rights. Now, we have become that banana republic that involves itself in political persecution, silencing the freedom of speech, and rule of law only for those that adhere to the Party's agenda. Presumption of innocence is only for Party members or Party endorsed organizations. Election results that are unquestionable as long as the Party wins. Making gun ownership so expensive that no one can afford it so that the people will become unarmed and doing everything it can to actually make arms ownership illegal. Absolutely no personal privacy is allowed even though the spying is done covertly and without consent (say something around your phone or computer about a product and see how long it takes for ads for said product to flood your social media and email). Illegal search and seizure is commonplace against the Party's opposition.

And the game continues, and continues, and continues.

Once the world is ashes, who are the elites going to lord over? Who, and what, are they going to control? Dystopian society was once nothing more than fiction books on the library shelf. Now it is everyday life. We have become 1980, The Hunger Games, The Darkest Minds, Fahrenheit 451, and Animal Farm all rolled into one little package. It hasn't happened overnight. It's taken the Party decades to achieve. It has only been in the last 18 to 20 months for it to advance exponentially. It is a game that the Party refuses to lose. And there is no depth to which the Party will sink that is off limits.

Red Dawn is happening now. The only thing is it isn't the Russians or Koreans that are perpetrating the takeover. It is the far-left radicals. Abraham Lincoln said that America would never fall to a foreign power but only by destroying itself from within. That is what has been happening for quite a long time. Strange how the Founders and great statesmen of our nation predicted just what would/could happen and how it would. Too bad that insight and knowledge isn't prevalent today. We wouldn't be where we are.

We are at the brink of the point of no return. We may well be past it. Only time will time. I do know this: I will not go peacefully into the night. I will fight for freedom in any way that is necessary. Patrick Henry said it best: “Give me liberty or give me death.”

As The World Burns

 

Dateline, May 27, 2021.

The United States is a little over four months into the new administration. After the disastrous first 100 days, which included cancelling the Keystone XL Pipeline and construction of the border wall eliminating thousands of high-paying union jobs, the President has returned to the policies of former President Barry Soetoro Obama of financing Iran’s nuclear progress, financing terrorist organizations such as Hamas, and ignoring Israel. After the historic peace deals brokered by President Donald Trump, the Middle East is back at war amongst itself and Palestine has returned to relentless bombing of Israel.

With cancelling the border wall and returning to the policies of catch-and-release, along with advertising an open border and all is welcome, the surge of illegal adults and unaccompanied minors at the southern border has reached historic levels. It has been reported that the Biden Administration is flying children into the country by jet under cover of darkness.

Inflation has reached almost historic levels along with unemployment and job losses. Millions are still out of work, some of which are still under extreme lockdown in blue states. Prices have increased in commodities and other necessities by 50-150%. Shortages are predicted by mid-summer of certain goods, food included.

Defund The Police policies of Democrat-controlled cities has resulted in crime rates increasing by up to 200%, including homicide. All the while, Antifa and BLM are still rioting, looting, committing arson, and taking over sections of larger metropolitan areas. Chaos reigns supreme in many blue cities.

As the world burns, the Democrats are more concerned with stopping audits of the 2020 election, investigating Donald Trump’s business dealings, and turning the United States into a socialist nation. Meanwhile, the Jeffery Epstein ‘suicide,’ the fraudulent use of the FISA Court, the illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign, the 33,000 plus deleted emails of Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden’s laptops and use of his, then VP, father’s influence around the world, the quid pro quo of the Ukrainian government by the VP Biden, the perjury of several high ranking officials of the Obama Administration to the Congress, and the obvious fraud and corruption of the 2020 election have all but disappeared.

Innocent people that marched to the Capitol Complex on January 6, 2021 to protest are being hunted down and prosecuted for insurrection, whether they were involved in breaching the Capitol or not, while those inciting riots and insurrection (such as Rep Maxine Waters, AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Nancy Pelosi) are left alone and allowed to continue their fight against our Constitutional Republic.

As the far-left continue to scream ‘RACIST’ everything from William Shakespeare to Dr Suess to Aunt Jemima syrup, the right sits back and does nothing. Congress has become a cesspool of ineffectual career politicians with no backbone at best or, at worst, are all cut from the same cloth and are co-conspirators in the downfall of this once free nation. We, the People, have only one recourse with the Federal Government and that is the Electoral system. A system which failed miserably in 2020, not because of the people of the country not voting, but because of the fraud, corruption, and illegalities perpetrated during the election to insure a Democrat win. What did the Republicans do? Nothing. The few that tried were threatened, coerced, and ignored. The people of the country were ignored. The Supreme Court was bought through fear. The lower courts were bought. The people lost.

As the world burns, we, the people, can do nothing but sit back and watch while the Washington elites, the super-wealthy, and the Hollywood elites dance around gleefully with their torches.

What happened to America

The ‘New Normal;’ Government control of businesses, whether they are open or closed; Governors forcing people to wear ineffectual surgical masks and social distancing; Governors and mayors allowing rioting, looting, arson, and assault by terrorist organizations while demanding their law enforcement to stand down and not allowing federal agents to assist in any way; The coin shortage and businesses not accepting cash payments for goods or services; a vaccination that is much more expensive than an FDA approved drug that has been tested for over 20 years; Stimulus checks that make it more profitable to stay at home than to go to work; Congress and government employees still getting paid (huge) salaries while most Americans are going broke getting next to nothing; Democrat’s pet projects getting millions of dollars through legislation that is supposed to be helping everyday Americans; Illegal aliens receiving money meant for citizens; Democrat and liberal-leaning government officials given a free pass on incontrovertible crimes; obvious treason and attempted overthrow of a duly elected President; mainstream media’s obvious bias and the continual attack against any conservative voice and especially against the duly elected President; the silencing of conservative voices on social media and in the mainstream media; The list goes on and on and on how we, the People, are being controlled, subjugated, and being forced into a Marxist, Socialist/Communist, fascist society.

Anonymous, the 3Percenters, the Militiamen, the Minutemen, the NRA, etc.; ALL the so-called Constitution upholding, patriotic, rights protecting organizations are silent. Where are they? Why are they silent on all that is happening in the country? Are they, dare I say it, afraid? If so, what are they afraid of? If being called a racist is the equivalent of being called a witch in the Middle Ages, then so be it. I remember a time when being called a COMMUNIST was about the worst thing that a person could be called. Now, it’s a badge of honor to be labeled a Communist, a Marxist, a Socialist. In the last bastion of freedom, the land of the free and the home of brave; a country that has fought against tyranny and oppression for 244 years. Since the Colonists decided that they had had enough of tyranny, taxation, and oppression from a government across the Atlantic, we, as a nation, have fought two world wars, two wars of Independence (the War of 1812 was actually fought, once again, for our right to be a free nation. Look it up if you can find a history book that hasn’t been rewritten to fit the liberal agenda), a civil war (yes, it started as a war for State’s rights but was turned into a war against slavery – in other words – oppression), a police action and a conflict (Korea and Viet Nam), and have been engaged in the Middle East for well over 20 years against oppression (and, of course, oil, for those that want to be technical and liberal-minded). What happened?

When did Americans become so – anti-American? Why did we? Was it because we have been blinded by the constant liberal assault on our institutions (such as the liberal takeover of our primary and secondary school systems)? Maybe it is because we have allowed our sense of fairness and well-being for all to overshadow our sense of freedom and self-reliance. “The good of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” That is a great slogan for the liberals. After all, ‘from each according to his ability to each according to his needs.’ That works if it is voluntary. If forced, it becomes tyranny. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

The First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” What, exactly, does this say? It seems clear cut to me. The citizens of this great nation have the right to worship as they please, or not. We have the right to speak our minds, vocally and in the press. We have the right to assemble for any reason as long as it is peaceful. Lastly, we have the right to go to the government and complain that we do not like the way they are running things.

There is some clear wordage here: NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion, or PROHIBITING the free exercise…; abridging the freedom of SPEECH; PEACEABLY assemble. What Congress and the Supreme Court have done to this Amendment is bastardize it. Now, freedom of SPEECH includes actions (such as burning the Flag); it’s against the law to have the Ten Commandments anywhere near a government-owned building or in the schools, but it’s alright to teach Islam; rioting, looting, arson, other destruction of property (both private and public), even assault on another person, is considered peaceful protesting. What a sad situation this country has come to because of the far-left liberal ideology; and it is because of the far-left.

How do these policies get into law? Simple. The Democrats put policy into legislation that is needed or the appearance of being needed because that policy would never get passed on its own. If the President, or conservative members of Congress puts through legislation that the liberals don’t like, they take it to the Supreme Court, or a Circuit Court that is liberal, and put it down and vice-versa if it is a policy that they want and the President or conservative Congress is against it. This makes the Judicial Branch legislators, not jurists. Another way this has happened is in what people call the Deep State.

The Deep State are those government employees that are not elected but hired into positions of making regulations that Congress does not want to be bothered with. Yes, Congress has made the choice of letting agencies and departments make rules that are the same as laws but are not voted on. These employees make rules that they feel are needed according to their beliefs and ideology whether those rules are Constitutional or not. A lot of these people are far-left leaning. A lot of these regulations are unconstitutional and infringe on our Constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms.

What is happening right now, today, in cities like Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, etc., is criminal. Obviously. Yet, the Democrat governors and mayors of these states and cities sit back and allow the destruction. They are doing all they can to defund law enforcement and instructing the law to ‘stand-down’ and allow what is happening. The sad thing is that, once the destruction is done, the looting is over, the assaults are through, etc., these same Democrats are demanding that the Federal Government step in and pay for what they allowed and blame President Trump for it all. No, where in the Constitution does it state that the President is responsible for what happens in any state. There are specific, enumerated powers that the federal government has, and the rest is up to the individual states. The federal government is not responsible to fix any state’s problems. That is up to the governors and mayors of those states.

If we, the people, don’t open our eyes and start standing up to these Congressmen, governors, mayors, etc., and fight for what the Founders fought for, we are doomed as a free nation. The last bastion of freedom will no longer exist and the world will be cloaked in darkness, tyranny, and oppression for the foreseeable future. The world looks to us, the American people, the United States of America, for hope and freedom. If the United States was even a fraction of evil that the Democrat, far-left, socialists say it is, why do people from around the globe come here, both legally and illegally? Why is there such a push to get to the U.S. instead of the utopian, socialist/communist countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, China, North Korea, Russia, etc.? I’ll tell you why – because this country, the United States of America, is still the best, the greatest, the freest country in the world. Yes, there are other capitalist countries that have basic human rights but none come close to ours. We are the most prosperous country in the world because of our capitalist economy, our freedom to do as we please with our lives, the ability to go out and take risks without government interference.

We are on the event horizon. Will we fall into the black hole of socialism, tyranny, oppression and government control of every aspect of our lives or will we fight back and regain what the Founders fought for 244 years ago? Are we going to allow people like Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and a host of other far-left radical liberals to control our very souls; or will we fight back and keep people like Donald J Trump, Mike Pence, Jim Jordan, Dan Crenshaw, Andrew Wilkow, Mark Levin, Kevin Sorbo, etc., keep watch on our rights and freedoms to make sure they don’t disappear? There are far more liberals out there that need to be leased and/or chained up than there are conservatives that need to be freed.

Major league sports, Hollywood, international business, the internet, social media, mainstream media, federal, state, and local governments are filled to overflowing with enemies of freedom. It is an uphill battle to be sure. A lot of good, clean, patriotic Americans have been brainwashed by the far-left. I call out Anonymous, the 3Percenters, Militiamen, Minutemen, the NRA, and every freedom-loving American out there to start fighting back. We will not go quietly into the night if we all stand together and fight this war that the left has thrust upon us. We, the conservative voice, did not start this war. We are not the ones rioting, looting, assaulting, destroying. We are taking care of our families, working our jobs, respecting the rule of law, upholding our responsibilities. We have not the time for such foolishness as rioting. I will venture that once the left has woken the gentle giant, they will rue the day they decided to fight against us. Even the Japanese after Pearl Harbor knew better than to attack Americans on the mainland.

We will prove victorious if we stand united against this assault on our freedoms. But we must not tarry. To wait will be to lose. The Colonists, a rag-tag army of farmers, fought against the mightiest army in the world and won. We will win again.

Our Divided Country

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh, What A Tangled Web We Weave

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What Are The Congressional Powers

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

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

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

To borrow Money on the credit of The United States;

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

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

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

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

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

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

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

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

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

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

To provide and maintain a Navy;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Corruption

Corruption.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Political Utopia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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