When it's gone here it's gone forever.

[Ray9]

In the fall of 1963 some of us who were supposed to be headed for college had to choose our curriculum. Mine kept getting rejected because I was choosing easy courses so I could get it over with and I kept getting kicked out of school for having long hair. Finally a guidance councilor told me that I had the third highest IQ in the class and that I was lazy. He gave me three choices, physics, chemistry or comparative government. I took the comparative government.

He was right about the lazy part but that course had an impact on my thinking that has lasted a lifetime. Jack Mayes headed the class and to this day I don’t think the school could have picked a better person to do it. Mayes was typical of high school instructors of the times. He’d grown up during the Great Depression and like his contemporaries he knew that nothing that didn’t from hard work was worth anything.

Castro had reached out to the communists and the Cuban Missile Crisis had American citizens digging fallout shelters. The Korean War was just a decade old and Vietnam was lurking in the shadows. Mayes made it clear that we were to make up our own minds about the historical evidence presented.

We studied various forms of government from early Greek democracies to modern hippie communes and then the entire last half of the course focused on modern American democracy vs. Soviet/Chinese communism.

The consensus at the end was that democracy is exclusively exceptional and that it will prevail because the end does not justify the means and the collective wisdom of the people is superior to the directed oppression of the intellectual elite.

Unfortunately this is not how history has unfolded. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed but it did not expire-it creeped into free societies on the campuses of colleges while it slowly and deliberately supplanted a free press with the targeted, divisive propaganda of political correctness.

The Eastern Bloc Nomenklatura now wears the clothes of the American Deep State and the plague of a world government is at our doorstep. Mayes never could have predicted that the US Constitution would come under attack from an underhanded US political establishment falling all over itself to throw it into the bonfire of global communism.

America is the last place on Earth where real democracy endures. When it’s gone here it’s gone forever.

 

[easyt65]

The Democrats are past the point of committing treason to take this country down...

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

The Democrats are past the point of committing treason to take this country down...

I for one am no longer interested in fairness toward Democrats.

 

[Moonglow]

I am not at all impressed with either party.. They both are the shampoo, rinse and repeat representation..

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

In the fall of 1963 some of us who were supposed to be headed for college had to choose our curriculum. Mine kept getting rejected because I was choosing easy courses so I could get it over with and I kept getting kicked out of school for having long hair. Finally a guidance councilor told me that I had the third highest IQ in the class and that I was lazy. He gave me three choices, physics, chemistry or comparative government. I took the comparative government.

He was right about the lazy part but that course had an impact on my thinking that has lasted a lifetime. Jack Mayes headed the class and to this day I don’t think the school could have picked a better person to do it. Mayes was typical of high school instructors of the times. He’d grown up during the Great Depression and like his contemporaries he knew that nothing that didn’t from hard work was worth anything.

Castro had reached out to the communists and the Cuban Missile Crisis had American citizens digging fallout shelters. The Korean War was just a decade old and Vietnam was lurking in the shadows. Mayes made it clear that we were to make up our own minds about the historical evidence presented.

We studied various forms of government from early Greek democracies to modern hippie communes and then the entire last half of the course focused on modern American democracy vs. Soviet/Chinese communism.

The consensus at the end was that democracy is exclusively exceptional and that it will prevail because the end does not justify the means and the collective wisdom of the people is superior to the directed oppression of the intellectual elite.

Unfortunately this is not how history has unfolded. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed but it did not expire-it creeped into free societies on the campuses of colleges while it slowly and deliberately supplanted a free press with the targeted, divisive propaganda of political correctness.

The Eastern Bloc Nomenklatura now wears the clothes of the American Deep State and the plague of a world government is at our doorstep. Mayes never could have predicted that the US Constitution would come under attack from an underhanded US political establishment falling all over itself to throw it into the bonfire of global communism.

America is the last place on Earth where real democracy endures. When it’s gone here it’s gone forever.

Real Democracy barely endures here. If the DNC, media and certain components of the FBI had their way it wouldn't have. The wall fell down because the war was over. The Commies knew that they had planted enough seeds to see their dreams realized without going out with a bang.
Look at 10 planks of Communism in chapter 2 of the Communist Manifesto. We have, to some degree, every one of those planks in every western nation on the planet.

 

[bripat9643]

In the fall of 1963 some of us who were supposed to be headed for college had to choose our curriculum. Mine kept getting rejected because I was choosing easy courses so I could get it over with and I kept getting kicked out of school for having long hair. Finally a guidance councilor told me that I had the third highest IQ in the class and that I was lazy. He gave me three choices, physics, chemistry or comparative government. I took the comparative government.

He was right about the lazy part but that course had an impact on my thinking that has lasted a lifetime. Jack Mayes headed the class and to this day I don’t think the school could have picked a better person to do it. Mayes was typical of high school instructors of the times. He’d grown up during the Great Depression and like his contemporaries he knew that nothing that didn’t from hard work was worth anything.

Castro had reached out to the communists and the Cuban Missile Crisis had American citizens digging fallout shelters. The Korean War was just a decade old and Vietnam was lurking in the shadows. Mayes made it clear that we were to make up our own minds about the historical evidence presented.

We studied various forms of government from early Greek democracies to modern hippie communes and then the entire last half of the course focused on modern American democracy vs. Soviet/Chinese communism.

The consensus at the end was that democracy is exclusively exceptional and that it will prevail because the end does not justify the means and the collective wisdom of the people is superior to the directed oppression of the intellectual elite.

Unfortunately this is not how history has unfolded. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed but it did not expire-it creeped into free societies on the campuses of colleges while it slowly and deliberately supplanted a free press with the targeted, divisive propaganda of political correctness.

The Eastern Bloc Nomenklatura now wears the clothes of the American Deep State and the plague of a world government is at our doorstep. Mayes never could have predicted that the US Constitution would come under attack from an underhanded US political establishment falling all over itself to throw it into the bonfire of global communism.

America is the last place on Earth where real democracy endures. When it’s gone here it’s gone forever.

Maybe not forever, but for at least 1000 years.

 

[shockedcanadian]

In the fall of 1963 some of us who were supposed to be headed for college had to choose our curriculum. Mine kept getting rejected because I was choosing easy courses so I could get it over with and I kept getting kicked out of school for having long hair. Finally a guidance councilor told me that I had the third highest IQ in the class and that I was lazy. He gave me three choices, physics, chemistry or comparative government. I took the comparative government.

He was right about the lazy part but that course had an impact on my thinking that has lasted a lifetime. Jack Mayes headed the class and to this day I don’t think the school could have picked a better person to do it. Mayes was typical of high school instructors of the times. He’d grown up during the Great Depression and like his contemporaries he knew that nothing that didn’t from hard work was worth anything.

Castro had reached out to the communists and the Cuban Missile Crisis had American citizens digging fallout shelters. The Korean War was just a decade old and Vietnam was lurking in the shadows. Mayes made it clear that we were to make up our own minds about the historical evidence presented.

We studied various forms of government from early Greek democracies to modern hippie communes and then the entire last half of the course focused on modern American democracy vs. Soviet/Chinese communism.

The consensus at the end was that democracy is exclusively exceptional and that it will prevail because the end does not justify the means and the collective wisdom of the people is superior to the directed oppression of the intellectual elite.

Unfortunately this is not how history has unfolded. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed but it did not expire-it creeped into free societies on the campuses of colleges while it slowly and deliberately supplanted a free press with the targeted, divisive propaganda of political correctness.

The Eastern Bloc Nomenklatura now wears the clothes of the American Deep State and the plague of a world government is at our doorstep. Mayes never could have predicted that the US Constitution would come under attack from an underhanded US political establishment falling all over itself to throw it into the bonfire of global communism.

America is the last place on Earth where real democracy endures. When it’s gone here it’s gone forever.

I'm not an anarchist, and I don't subscribe to violence, though I will never cower in the face of it. However, I think this is why people are getting more involved in politics. In the end, it may be the single greatest contribution Trump will make, he woke up the silent and struggling middle class and U.S patriots.

When you have an indoctrinated, not very curious youth and their socialist masters telling you that everything you have done and know is b.s well you start to see how this could snowball into a drastically different America.

If there are agents in organizations who believe they are above the law and think they know what is best, they have to be confronted and removed from their positions. Americans can no longer stand around twiddling their thumbs, you need to be sure that there is full support for the Constitution and individual liberty. It must be stated over and over that you are a Republic, and if political parties or politicians disagree, you must call them out openly.

Russia has great influence all right, but it isn't with Libertarians I guarantee you that much

 

[Dragonlady]

In the fall of 1963 some of us who were supposed to be headed for college had to choose our curriculum. Mine kept getting rejected because I was choosing easy courses so I could get it over with and I kept getting kicked out of school for having long hair. Finally a guidance councilor told me that I had the third highest IQ in the class and that I was lazy. He gave me three choices, physics, chemistry or comparative government. I took the comparative government.

He was right about the lazy part but that course had an impact on my thinking that has lasted a lifetime. Jack Mayes headed the class and to this day I don’t think the school could have picked a better person to do it. Mayes was typical of high school instructors of the times. He’d grown up during the Great Depression and like his contemporaries he knew that nothing that didn’t from hard work was worth anything.

Castro had reached out to the communists and the Cuban Missile Crisis had American citizens digging fallout shelters. The Korean War was just a decade old and Vietnam was lurking in the shadows. Mayes made it clear that we were to make up our own minds about the historical evidence presented.

We studied various forms of government from early Greek democracies to modern hippie communes and then the entire last half of the course focused on modern American democracy vs. Soviet/Chinese communism.

The consensus at the end was that democracy is exclusively exceptional and that it will prevail because the end does not justify the means and the collective wisdom of the people is superior to the directed oppression of the intellectual elite.

Unfortunately this is not how history has unfolded. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed but it did not expire-it creeped into free societies on the campuses of colleges while it slowly and deliberately supplanted a free press with the targeted, divisive propaganda of political correctness.

The Eastern Bloc Nomenklatura now wears the clothes of the American Deep State and the plague of a world government is at our doorstep. Mayes never could have predicted that the US Constitution would come under attack from an underhanded US political establishment falling all over itself to throw it into the bonfire of global communism.

America is the last place on Earth where real democracy endures. When it’s gone here it’s gone forever.

“Real democracy” doesn’t exist in the US and never has. One man/one vote doesn’t exist in the US. The Electoral College magnifies the rural, small state vote. Gerrymandering has made a joke of Congressional elections. Voter suppression is designed to take votes away from the poor and the elderly.

Twice in recent years, under the one person one vote democratic election, the candidate who got the most votes did not win the election. That’s the very definition of democracy.

Trump has even bragged about being smart enough to win the “swing states” that Clinton took for granted. That’s not democracy, it’s targetted marketing.

The first thwarting of democratic principles gave the Presidency to W - arguable the worst president in history, so far.

The second to Trump. Trump was not elected according to any democratic principles.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

In the fall of 1963 some of us who were supposed to be headed for college had to choose our curriculum. Mine kept getting rejected because I was choosing easy courses so I could get it over with and I kept getting kicked out of school for having long hair. Finally a guidance councilor told me that I had the third highest IQ in the class and that I was lazy. He gave me three choices, physics, chemistry or comparative government. I took the comparative government.

He was right about the lazy part but that course had an impact on my thinking that has lasted a lifetime. Jack Mayes headed the class and to this day I don’t think the school could have picked a better person to do it. Mayes was typical of high school instructors of the times. He’d grown up during the Great Depression and like his contemporaries he knew that nothing that didn’t from hard work was worth anything.

Castro had reached out to the communists and the Cuban Missile Crisis had American citizens digging fallout shelters. The Korean War was just a decade old and Vietnam was lurking in the shadows. Mayes made it clear that we were to make up our own minds about the historical evidence presented.

We studied various forms of government from early Greek democracies to modern hippie communes and then the entire last half of the course focused on modern American democracy vs. Soviet/Chinese communism.

The consensus at the end was that democracy is exclusively exceptional and that it will prevail because the end does not justify the means and the collective wisdom of the people is superior to the directed oppression of the intellectual elite.

Unfortunately this is not how history has unfolded. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed but it did not expire-it creeped into free societies on the campuses of colleges while it slowly and deliberately supplanted a free press with the targeted, divisive propaganda of political correctness.

The Eastern Bloc Nomenklatura now wears the clothes of the American Deep State and the plague of a world government is at our doorstep. Mayes never could have predicted that the US Constitution would come under attack from an underhanded US political establishment falling all over itself to throw it into the bonfire of global communism.

America is the last place on Earth where real democracy endures. When it’s gone here it’s gone forever.

“Real democracy” doesn’t exist in the US and never has. One man/one vote doesn’t exist in the US. The Electoral College magnifies the rural, small state vote. Gerrymandering has made a joke of Congressional elections. Voter suppression is designed to take votes away from the poor and the elderly.

Twice in recent years, under the one person one vote democratic election, the candidate who got the most votes did not win the election. That’s the very definition of democracy.

Trump has even bragged about being smart enough to win the “swing states” that Clinton took for granted. That’s not democracy, it’s targetted marketing.

The first thwarting of democratic principles gave the Presidency to W - arguable the worst president in history, so far.

The second to Trump. Trump was not elected according to any democratic principles.

W and O. Not even arguably the worst. The absolute worst.

 

[ozro]

In 1860 Mr. Lincoln won the electorial collage handily, yet only won 40% of the popular vote. The losing side left congress and started their own independent nation.

We all know how that turned out. That war was still the largest shedding of young lives this continent has seen.

Round two losers?

 

[Timmy]

In the fall of 1963 some of us who were supposed to be headed for college had to choose our curriculum. Mine kept getting rejected because I was choosing easy courses so I could get it over with and I kept getting kicked out of school for having long hair. Finally a guidance councilor told me that I had the third highest IQ in the class and that I was lazy. He gave me three choices, physics, chemistry or comparative government. I took the comparative government.

He was right about the lazy part but that course had an impact on my thinking that has lasted a lifetime. Jack Mayes headed the class and to this day I don’t think the school could have picked a better person to do it. Mayes was typical of high school instructors of the times. He’d grown up during the Great Depression and like his contemporaries he knew that nothing that didn’t from hard work was worth anything.

Castro had reached out to the communists and the Cuban Missile Crisis had American citizens digging fallout shelters. The Korean War was just a decade old and Vietnam was lurking in the shadows. Mayes made it clear that we were to make up our own minds about the historical evidence presented.

We studied various forms of government from early Greek democracies to modern hippie communes and then the entire last half of the course focused on modern American democracy vs. Soviet/Chinese communism.

The consensus at the end was that democracy is exclusively exceptional and that it will prevail because the end does not justify the means and the collective wisdom of the people is superior to the directed oppression of the intellectual elite.

Unfortunately this is not how history has unfolded. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed but it did not expire-it creeped into free societies on the campuses of colleges while it slowly and deliberately supplanted a free press with the targeted, divisive propaganda of political correctness.

The Eastern Bloc Nomenklatura now wears the clothes of the American Deep State and the plague of a world government is at our doorstep. Mayes never could have predicted that the US Constitution would come under attack from an underhanded US political establishment falling all over itself to throw it into the bonfire of global communism.

America is the last place on Earth where real democracy endures. When it’s gone here it’s gone forever.

1963, when we had real democracy! If you were a white Christian man.

 

[bripat9643]

In the fall of 1963 some of us who were supposed to be headed for college had to choose our curriculum. Mine kept getting rejected because I was choosing easy courses so I could get it over with and I kept getting kicked out of school for having long hair. Finally a guidance councilor told me that I had the third highest IQ in the class and that I was lazy. He gave me three choices, physics, chemistry or comparative government. I took the comparative government.

He was right about the lazy part but that course had an impact on my thinking that has lasted a lifetime. Jack Mayes headed the class and to this day I don’t think the school could have picked a better person to do it. Mayes was typical of high school instructors of the times. He’d grown up during the Great Depression and like his contemporaries he knew that nothing that didn’t from hard work was worth anything.

Castro had reached out to the communists and the Cuban Missile Crisis had American citizens digging fallout shelters. The Korean War was just a decade old and Vietnam was lurking in the shadows. Mayes made it clear that we were to make up our own minds about the historical evidence presented.

We studied various forms of government from early Greek democracies to modern hippie communes and then the entire last half of the course focused on modern American democracy vs. Soviet/Chinese communism.

The consensus at the end was that democracy is exclusively exceptional and that it will prevail because the end does not justify the means and the collective wisdom of the people is superior to the directed oppression of the intellectual elite.

Unfortunately this is not how history has unfolded. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed but it did not expire-it creeped into free societies on the campuses of colleges while it slowly and deliberately supplanted a free press with the targeted, divisive propaganda of political correctness.

The Eastern Bloc Nomenklatura now wears the clothes of the American Deep State and the plague of a world government is at our doorstep. Mayes never could have predicted that the US Constitution would come under attack from an underhanded US political establishment falling all over itself to throw it into the bonfire of global communism.

America is the last place on Earth where real democracy endures. When it’s gone here it’s gone forever.

“Real democracy” doesn’t exist in the US and never has. One man/one vote doesn’t exist in the US. The Electoral College magnifies the rural, small state vote. Gerrymandering has made a joke of Congressional elections. Voter suppression is designed to take votes away from the poor and the elderly.

Twice in recent years, under the one person one vote democratic election, the candidate who got the most votes did not win the election. That’s the very definition of democracy.

Trump has even bragged about being smart enough to win the “swing states” that Clinton took for granted. That’s not democracy, it’s targetted marketing.

The first thwarting of democratic principles gave the Presidency to W - arguable the worst president in history, so far.

The second to Trump. Trump was not elected according to any democratic principles.

Democracy is a scam. Thank god we don't have it in the pure undiluted form. What he have is bad enough.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

In the fall of 1963 some of us who were supposed to be headed for college had to choose our curriculum. Mine kept getting rejected because I was choosing easy courses so I could get it over with and I kept getting kicked out of school for having long hair. Finally a guidance councilor told me that I had the third highest IQ in the class and that I was lazy. He gave me three choices, physics, chemistry or comparative government. I took the comparative government.

He was right about the lazy part but that course had an impact on my thinking that has lasted a lifetime. Jack Mayes headed the class and to this day I don’t think the school could have picked a better person to do it. Mayes was typical of high school instructors of the times. He’d grown up during the Great Depression and like his contemporaries he knew that nothing that didn’t from hard work was worth anything.

Castro had reached out to the communists and the Cuban Missile Crisis had American citizens digging fallout shelters. The Korean War was just a decade old and Vietnam was lurking in the shadows. Mayes made it clear that we were to make up our own minds about the historical evidence presented.

We studied various forms of government from early Greek democracies to modern hippie communes and then the entire last half of the course focused on modern American democracy vs. Soviet/Chinese communism.

The consensus at the end was that democracy is exclusively exceptional and that it will prevail because the end does not justify the means and the collective wisdom of the people is superior to the directed oppression of the intellectual elite.

Unfortunately this is not how history has unfolded. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed but it did not expire-it creeped into free societies on the campuses of colleges while it slowly and deliberately supplanted a free press with the targeted, divisive propaganda of political correctness.

The Eastern Bloc Nomenklatura now wears the clothes of the American Deep State and the plague of a world government is at our doorstep. Mayes never could have predicted that the US Constitution would come under attack from an underhanded US political establishment falling all over itself to throw it into the bonfire of global communism.

America is the last place on Earth where real democracy endures. When it’s gone here it’s gone forever.

“Real democracy” doesn’t exist in the US and never has. One man/one vote doesn’t exist in the US. The Electoral College magnifies the rural, small state vote. Gerrymandering has made a joke of Congressional elections. Voter suppression is designed to take votes away from the poor and the elderly.

Twice in recent years, under the one person one vote democratic election, the candidate who got the most votes did not win the election. That’s the very definition of democracy.

Trump has even bragged about being smart enough to win the “swing states” that Clinton took for granted. That’s not democracy, it’s targetted marketing.

Nope That's constitutional mandate. Feel free to change it.

 

[Votto]

In the fall of 1963 some of us who were supposed to be headed for college had to choose our curriculum. Mine kept getting rejected because I was choosing easy courses so I could get it over with and I kept getting kicked out of school for having long hair. Finally a guidance councilor told me that I had the third highest IQ in the class and that I was lazy. He gave me three choices, physics, chemistry or comparative government. I took the comparative government.

He was right about the lazy part but that course had an impact on my thinking that has lasted a lifetime. Jack Mayes headed the class and to this day I don’t think the school could have picked a better person to do it. Mayes was typical of high school instructors of the times. He’d grown up during the Great Depression and like his contemporaries he knew that nothing that didn’t from hard work was worth anything.

Castro had reached out to the communists and the Cuban Missile Crisis had American citizens digging fallout shelters. The Korean War was just a decade old and Vietnam was lurking in the shadows. Mayes made it clear that we were to make up our own minds about the historical evidence presented.

We studied various forms of government from early Greek democracies to modern hippie communes and then the entire last half of the course focused on modern American democracy vs. Soviet/Chinese communism.

The consensus at the end was that democracy is exclusively exceptional and that it will prevail because the end does not justify the means and the collective wisdom of the people is superior to the directed oppression of the intellectual elite.

Unfortunately this is not how history has unfolded. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed but it did not expire-it creeped into free societies on the campuses of colleges while it slowly and deliberately supplanted a free press with the targeted, divisive propaganda of political correctness.

The Eastern Bloc Nomenklatura now wears the clothes of the American Deep State and the plague of a world government is at our doorstep. Mayes never could have predicted that the US Constitution would come under attack from an underhanded US political establishment falling all over itself to throw it into the bonfire of global communism.

America is the last place on Earth where real democracy endures. When it’s gone here it’s gone forever.

It's not really about democracy, that is the big lie.

The US was a Republic, not a democracy, and for good reason. There were many concerns the Founders had with democracy, which is why those in the Senate were appointed by the states and had more power and served longer terms than those in the House elected directly by the people.

The issue is the destruction of federalism and the checks and balances placed by the Founding Fathers. Collectivists has usurped the rights of state and local governments and created an all powerful Federal government that now runs the show.

Interestingly, this oligarchical form of government created by Progs is relatively immune to democracy. Those in the Federal Congress have had an approval rating of under 15% for decades, yet nothing changes. This is proof positive that the political world Progs have created is a resounding failure that is destroying the country.

The masses are easily directed on how and who to vote for through various institutions such as education, the media, and stacking the deck in the two major parties as to who wins/loses in their primary battles. Now one candidate may have more votes but another is chosen.

At the end of the day, the issue is how power corrupts. The more power, the more corruption. What is now needed is to reduce the said power or it will only get worse. That is why I support the Article V movement We need a return to federalism.

 

[Moonglow]

In 1860 Mr. Lincoln won the electorial collage handily, yet only won 40% of the popular vote. The losing side left congress and started their own independent nation.

We all know how that turned out. That war was still the largest shedding of young lives this continent has seen.

Round two losers?

Nope, the one hundred year Indian war killed more...

 

[shockedcanadian]

In the fall of 1963 some of us who were supposed to be headed for college had to choose our curriculum. Mine kept getting rejected because I was choosing easy courses so I could get it over with and I kept getting kicked out of school for having long hair. Finally a guidance councilor told me that I had the third highest IQ in the class and that I was lazy. He gave me three choices, physics, chemistry or comparative government. I took the comparative government.

He was right about the lazy part but that course had an impact on my thinking that has lasted a lifetime. Jack Mayes headed the class and to this day I don’t think the school could have picked a better person to do it. Mayes was typical of high school instructors of the times. He’d grown up during the Great Depression and like his contemporaries he knew that nothing that didn’t from hard work was worth anything.

Castro had reached out to the communists and the Cuban Missile Crisis had American citizens digging fallout shelters. The Korean War was just a decade old and Vietnam was lurking in the shadows. Mayes made it clear that we were to make up our own minds about the historical evidence presented.

We studied various forms of government from early Greek democracies to modern hippie communes and then the entire last half of the course focused on modern American democracy vs. Soviet/Chinese communism.

The consensus at the end was that democracy is exclusively exceptional and that it will prevail because the end does not justify the means and the collective wisdom of the people is superior to the directed oppression of the intellectual elite.

Unfortunately this is not how history has unfolded. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed but it did not expire-it creeped into free societies on the campuses of colleges while it slowly and deliberately supplanted a free press with the targeted, divisive propaganda of political correctness.

The Eastern Bloc Nomenklatura now wears the clothes of the American Deep State and the plague of a world government is at our doorstep. Mayes never could have predicted that the US Constitution would come under attack from an underhanded US political establishment falling all over itself to throw it into the bonfire of global communism.

America is the last place on Earth where real democracy endures. When it’s gone here it’s gone forever.

It's not really about democracy, that is the big lie.

The US was a Republic, not a democracy, and for good reason. There were many concerns the Founders had with democracy, which is why those in the Senate were appointed by the states and had more power and served longer terms than those in the House elected directly by the people.

The issue is the destruction of federalism and the checks and balances placed by the Founding Fathers. Collectivists has usurped the rights of state and local governments and created an all powerful Federal government that now runs the show.

Interestingly, this oligarchical form of government created by Progs is relatively immune to democracy. Those in the Federal Congress have had an approval rating of under 15% for decades, yet nothing changes. This is proof positive that the political world Progs have created is a resounding failure that is destroying the country.

The masses are easily directed on how and who to vote for through various institutions such as education, the media, and stacking the deck in the two major parties as to who wins/loses in their primary battles. Now one candidate may have more votes but another is chosen.

At the end of the day, the issue is how power corrupts. The more power, the more corruption. What is now needed is to reduce the said power or it will only get worse. That is why I support the Article V movement We need a return to federalism.

State powers are definitely vital to a thriving U.S Republic. Outside of the obvious such as immigration, military and National legal jurisdiction. You in effect, decentralize power and provide the best environment for individual liberty.

 

[Votto]

Democracy in a collectivist state has less sway than in a Federalist state.

For example, your vote for President is virtually meaningless. Conversely, your vote for mayor has much more sway.

Not only is the mayor representing you better, because he lives in your community, not as many people are voting for him, which gives your vote much more weight.

The closer the representation the better, or just continue to vote for those distant award winning personalities in DC who do nothing but divide the country.

 

[Votto]

In the fall of 1963 some of us who were supposed to be headed for college had to choose our curriculum. Mine kept getting rejected because I was choosing easy courses so I could get it over with and I kept getting kicked out of school for having long hair. Finally a guidance councilor told me that I had the third highest IQ in the class and that I was lazy. He gave me three choices, physics, chemistry or comparative government. I took the comparative government.

He was right about the lazy part but that course had an impact on my thinking that has lasted a lifetime. Jack Mayes headed the class and to this day I don’t think the school could have picked a better person to do it. Mayes was typical of high school instructors of the times. He’d grown up during the Great Depression and like his contemporaries he knew that nothing that didn’t from hard work was worth anything.

Castro had reached out to the communists and the Cuban Missile Crisis had American citizens digging fallout shelters. The Korean War was just a decade old and Vietnam was lurking in the shadows. Mayes made it clear that we were to make up our own minds about the historical evidence presented.

We studied various forms of government from early Greek democracies to modern hippie communes and then the entire last half of the course focused on modern American democracy vs. Soviet/Chinese communism.

The consensus at the end was that democracy is exclusively exceptional and that it will prevail because the end does not justify the means and the collective wisdom of the people is superior to the directed oppression of the intellectual elite.

Unfortunately this is not how history has unfolded. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed but it did not expire-it creeped into free societies on the campuses of colleges while it slowly and deliberately supplanted a free press with the targeted, divisive propaganda of political correctness.

The Eastern Bloc Nomenklatura now wears the clothes of the American Deep State and the plague of a world government is at our doorstep. Mayes never could have predicted that the US Constitution would come under attack from an underhanded US political establishment falling all over itself to throw it into the bonfire of global communism.

America is the last place on Earth where real democracy endures. When it’s gone here it’s gone forever.

It's not really about democracy, that is the big lie.

The US was a Republic, not a democracy, and for good reason. There were many concerns the Founders had with democracy, which is why those in the Senate were appointed by the states and had more power and served longer terms than those in the House elected directly by the people.

The issue is the destruction of federalism and the checks and balances placed by the Founding Fathers. Collectivists has usurped the rights of state and local governments and created an all powerful Federal government that now runs the show.

Interestingly, this oligarchical form of government created by Progs is relatively immune to democracy. Those in the Federal Congress have had an approval rating of under 15% for decades, yet nothing changes. This is proof positive that the political world Progs have created is a resounding failure that is destroying the country.

The masses are easily directed on how and who to vote for through various institutions such as education, the media, and stacking the deck in the two major parties as to who wins/loses in their primary battles. Now one candidate may have more votes but another is chosen.

At the end of the day, the issue is how power corrupts. The more power, the more corruption. What is now needed is to reduce the said power or it will only get worse. That is why I support the Article V movement We need a return to federalism.

State powers are definitely vital to a thriving U.S Republic. Outside of the obvious such as immigration, military and National legal jurisdiction. You in effect, decentralize power and provide the best environment for individual liberty.

Today, states do the Federal government's bidding or lose that much relied upon federal money.

Federalism is dead.

 

[Ray9]

It's not really about democracy, that is the big lie.

The US was a Republic, not a democracy, and for good reason. There were many concerns the Founders had with democracy, which is why those in the Senate were appointed by the states and had more power and served longer terms than those in the House elected directly by the people.

The issue is the destruction of federalism and the checks and balances placed by the Founding Fathers. Collectivists has usurped the rights of state and local governments and created an all powerful Federal government that now runs the show.

Interestingly, this oligarchical form of government created by Progs is relatively immune to democracy. Those in the Federal Congress have had an approval rating of under 15% for decades, yet nothing changes. This is proof positive that the political world Progs have created is a resounding failure that is destroying the country.

The masses are easily directed on how and who to vote for through various institutions such as education, the media, and stacking the deck in the two major parties as to who wins/loses in their primary battles. Now one candidate may have more votes but another is chosen.

At the end of the day, the issue is how power corrupts. The more power, the more corruption. What is now needed is to reduce the said power or it will only get worse. That is why I support the Article V movement We need a return to federalism.

Absolutely. The founders realized that it is not just a numbers game and that majorities can quickly devolve into tyrannies. In large geographical areas cultural differences are unavoidable and this must be taken into account. The expansion of the government into the business of the states has robbed us of our heritage as individuals with differences.

The centralized power of the government is the historical axe that cuts off the head of democracy by subjugating the individual to the whims of the elite who run the government. This cabal has become very bold in recent times and now resorts to the importation and implantation of foreign interlopers into the process to masquerade as representatives of a nation of which they have no historical bonds.

It's evil in the respect that it is an obvious attempt to tip the scales with illegitimate weight and keep the government in control. It's happening right before the eyes of the people and they are beginning to question it. Hopefully it isn't too late to save the republic.

 

[Timmy]

Having a strong check n balance system is what makes the USA successful.